We are thankful for their extra effort to help us bring this exciting technology to you. The team best able to force their opponent to play their game tempo will significantly improve their chance to win. Teams forced to play outside the boundaries of their practiced methods whether slower or faster, execute poorly and make more mistakes. Forcing fastbreak-pressing teams to play a deliberate tempo takes them out of their element. Conversely a deliberate style team, when forced to play faster than they can properly react and execute, usually results in a loss.
Basketball is a game of controlling tempo when reduced to it's simplest element.
Before the Game One major reason why well-practiced combination pressing defenses work are these teams are physically conditioned and fundamentally prepared to play them. Your opponent will have, over several months, refined their ability to execute this defense under a wide variety of conditions. Therefore, it is not reasonable to expect that you can come up with a simple solution for attacking this type of defense the week of the game and without considerable preparation. This is the premise for and reason why the Match-Up Press has been so successful. Most teams simply don't spend an adequate enough amount of time to prepare for them prior to the start of the season.