"Man" = "Person", for the sake of this discussion
I find that the guys who claim to prefer the three-man system for the sake of "less running" do not do a justice to the game. They tend to use the occasion of three-man to become lazy, especially at the C-to-C and the old T-to-new L transitions.
56 three-man games + 17 tubes of IcyHot and BenGay = This Year. Yes, if those were all two-man games, that probably woulda taken double the dose of the hot stuff.
On the topic: please don't entertain doing three-man at the expense of conditioning. Those I observe who do so end up lazy -- Trail stays in the coffin corner near the division line so as not to "get beat" back to the other end; C waits for the play to pass him by going the other way; new Trail gets a head start and bounces the ball back to the endline for a throw-in in order to be able to walk upcourt without running; Lead hesitates to rotate because it forces the other two to have to move.
Shortcuts develop. Laziness becomes apparent. Angles are neglected. Guessing predominates. Those are the kinds of things I see with officials who prefer three-man for the sake of "less running."
Two-man, done right, is indeed more demanding than three-man. But three-man done right still deserves a diligent expense of effort and demands suitable conditioning.
Depends, I guess, if a person wants to "work the game" and give it the best, or merely "do the game" and get a paycheck.
Sorry for the diatribe, but I'm just sick of watching guys being lazy and refusing to invest the conditioning expected, whether doing either system.
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Last edited by Freddy; Tue Mar 18, 2014 at 08:50pm.
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