Stumbled across an interesting article the other day by a guy who knows his stuff. Clay Kallam is a longtime women's basketball writer who also coaches at the scholastic level. I have enjoyed his work over the years because I find him pretty insightful and have even used him as a source for a story. The piece he wrote recently for Slam Online uses Rutgers coach C. Vivian Stringer -- Jolette Law's mentor -- as an example of how women's basketball has changed, and whether those changes have not been heeded by coaches with specific coaching styles and philosophies.

I'm recommending this article because, of course, Law has patterned her coaching style and the Illinois program after Stringer and Rutgers. Anyone who has watched Rutgers play this year -- or in the past, for that matter -- can see the similarities, and anyone who follows Law's style and philosophies can see how her approach is similar to Stringer's.

I'm not as eager as Kallam to suggest that the game has passed Stringer by. But, to me, the most important aspects of his article -- as it relates to the Illinois program -- are toward the bottom. He makes some interesting points about a "defense-at-all-costs" mentality as well as the mindset of the modern-day player.