@BShark
Again, for the Nova game our failed 1st half defense should have been simplified the second half to “stay with your man wherever he goes. No open look treys. Lose to 2s, not to 3s. Vick, Bridges is your man. Do what ever it takes to stop him.”
Silvio could have done the above in his sleep. Paschal wasn’t a put it on the deck guy. They weren’t ball screening him outside. No hedge defending. No switching. Say, “CHASE! Til u can’t anymore; then signal for Mitch.”
The defensive problem appeared that Self schemed something that would have taken a week of practice time to get proficient at. He misjudged once entering the game and by not going to straight m2m he apparently misjudged at half time.
He may have been blinded by his own strategy and committed the cardinal sin of Marine Corp strategy. He failed to let tactics replace failed strategy; ie, become strategy.
Self would have his insightful, logical reasons for having not changed, but in Marine Corp strategy sound reasons for having lost don’t count. It’s about adapting and exploiting the chaos created by your own failed strategy.
It is about: ADAPTING ANY MEANS THAT YIELDS ADVANCE NECESSARY IN THE MOMENT.
THERE WAS NO ADVANCING THAT SECOND HALF. THERE WAS NO IMPROVISING. THERE WAS NO DISRUPTION. THERE WAS JUST PASSIVE ACCEPTANCE OF MORE OF THE SAME.
The Marine Corp relieves major and tries captains. They relieve captains and try one Louie’s. The relieve one Louie’s with two Louie’s and so on down the ranks. Stasis is not accepted unless stasis itself is ordered.
What counts most in a route is turning tactics into strategy during the route. If failure is imminent or at hand, don’t just stand there, do something. Find a way to advance even a foot.
It is during routes that the enemy often suffers catastrophic success and experiences confusion from overrunning expectations. Use the confusion of its own success against it. No offensive can ever anticipate all the ways it is vulnerable to attack after unexpected success; this is why you never give up after a half like Nova had. But you also don’t keep attacking and defending the same way; that is playing straight into their hands!
Oh enough.
