Drum Smoker - Expanded Metal Charcoal Basket Question

Which "diamond direction" is the easiest to form into a circle? The short way or the long way? I'm thinking the answer is the short way. I have access to a customers drop rack so I can get strips with diamonds in either direction and should be able to get raised or flat.

I just ran across this VIDEO from Brethren member "Rodney" where he mentions that the short way is easier to roll. In a post in the massive UDS thread I found another post where he claimed something like expando rolls 4 times easier in this direction.

Thanks everyone for the replies. After some experimentation with some scraps at work I determined that rolling the expando the short way is way easier, it's actually way more flexible than a strip cut the long way. I didn't have access to the flat face (which would have been even easier to roll) but the raised face was not bad at all, it took me about an hour to remove my old basket, form a new (and taller one) and re-attach it to my existing base. I went 4" taller this time which I'm hoping gives me 6 or more additional hours of burn time.

I used a 13" cast iron grate to form the expando around... tying it off in the center of the strip and just working my way around. The finished size was 14.5" dia X 10" tall. I'll put a few pictures in a post in the UDS mega thread for reference to others.