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...flex offense is geared toward a team that has many players capable of knocking down a mid-range jump shot with a few players who can penetrate hard to the basket. Delaney-Smith feels that she has the right cast of players to make the switch...
...Triangle wasn’t suited for our personnel,” Delaney-Smith said. “I thought it was too easy for teams to take away our inside game last year. I thought our post play was too stagnant in triangle and it was too easy to double inside, so we’re running something where we slash a lot more...
...immediate advantages to using the flex is that it expands the combinations of players that Delaney-Smith can play on the court, because with the flex, it’s positions on the court that matter, not “I’m a guard or I’m a forward.” That makes room for Delaney-Smith to utilize all 14 players on her roster in any game...
...Delaney-Smith has not been entirely pleased with how the team has run the flex in some of Harvard’s early contests, which perhaps is a good sign, given the Crimson’s 3-3 record. She feels that there is still much work to be done...
...It’s a difficult offense, and we’ve made a lot of early mistakes during the course of a game,” Delaney-Smith said. “Is the offense too new for us right now? I don’t know. But if we are able to stick to the game plan, it makes us a better team. We are certainly a faster team with the system in place already...