Quote: Originally posted by udm_mike on 2/20/2010i find that flex is a good offense to run if you like to shoot a lot of 3's. recruit for good per guys and you can score a lot of points.

it's great if you have good passer's and speed/ath guys with good ft ratings as you'll draw tons of fouls.

Pretty much what has been said here. Good SP/ATH, good perimeter shooters, and good passers. Can't say I have much negative to say about the flex except that you do have to nail down a good distro eventually (as billy pointed out). That being said, it is one of the only offenses where you CAN set everyone to zero and have a reasonable outcome.

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I don't know, I tend to think that a great flex team could play as well with the motion or the triangle, but I've always had bigs that could shoot. I don't think a team built specifically for the triangle could be as easily interchanged tho.

i use motion and triangle as my example because those are the 2 offenses i know best, by far. my feeling is flex is its own beast, but i am much less confident with it, so maybe you are right. anyway, some of my best motion teams had extremely talented offensive players in large quantities, and i am very confident those teams would have had more than a 5% decrease in total chance of winning the national championship with triangle (meaning if they were 25%, then it would drop to 20%, not ~24%). same goes with some of the d2 triangle teams i've had that have had a couple really exceptional offensive players who carried pretty much of the load. i would honestly think some of those teams would have had more than a 10% decrease in total chance of winning the NT, but i suppose i could believe it was in the 5-10% range. to me, that is huge. i live in the world of getting every last drop, those single percentage points and tenths of percents, but to me, offensive type is not one of those things.

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