Ultimate Strategy & Coaching

One of my favorite activities to do at a practice is something called Game Flow.  I won't go into the whole thing here, but it ends with a game of Down By Two.
You'd be surprised how many games come down to one team being down by two goals near the end of the game.  A fantastic example of this is the UNC/Oregon Men's College Semifinal that happened yesterday.  The conceit of Down By Two is obvious: one team...

As I get older I feel like my thoughts then to be broader.  While my youth was spent dissecting the minutia of how to play better handler defense by slightly changing the position of my body, now I spend more time thinking about broader strategy elements...

Jacob's comment in the last post started this, and after spending some time trying to figure it out I decided that I can't add pictures to a blogger comment.  So I started a new post.
The gist of the conversation was that I would have liked a more even PT distribution between players during the finals (although I understand why it wasn't flat and commend Tallis Boyd on doing a great job with a difficult task).  Jacob asked if that...

I ran a few more numbers for the finals again Japan and I thought I would share them
Point distribution among players wasn't as flat as I would like.  Two players only played 3 points, while four players played 10+.  The ramp between those two levels was pretty even, but I wish playing time was a little more even.  It is a difficult...