Haus got me curious about Coach Beard's offense a few days ago so I researched a little.
Looks like he does indeed run an offense influenced by Knight's system. With a huge departure - he uses on ball screens.
I have to admit that I am now dying to see how this works and is installed. I am definitely going to try to ninja my way into a practice or 20. I'm interested to see how spacing can be maintained consistently when you are bringing screeners to the ball.
Here are a couple quick things I'm going to look for on the offensive end.
Pass recipient-
Does he hold the ball a couple beats? He cannot just immediately dribble or swing pass it along. He needs to let a couple beats go by to read cutters, off ball screens, and emerging paths to the basket.
Passer-
Should never stay in position after the pass. He should immediately be screening, cutting to the paint, or v cutting back to position. Or if the pass is out of a screen- flairing or screening the screener.
Off ball - Are the players going through the motions or are they reading the defense and screening and cutting with intent? It is very easy to look busy in this offense- but without reading the contact, positioning, and tendencies of the defense- it's just busy work that leads nowhere.
Maintaining offensive rebounding roles-
Out of a properly spaced motion set, 3 players should be crashing hard, pg should be back and a guard should be guarding middle no man's land so that sloppy outlets are picked off, ball is slowed, and break doesn't gain steam.
Team IQ -
Do they make the right decisions? Do they trust that they will see the ball again if they pass it on or do they try and force a score or assist when nothing is open? Are they always deep in the shot clock or are they playing smart and catching the defensive mistakes? Is the team recognizing mismatches and running sets to exploit them, or are they just running a clockwork motion?
It's going to be a lot of fun and interesting to watch in my opinion.
Looks like he does indeed run an offense influenced by Knight's system. With a huge departure - he uses on ball screens.
I have to admit that I am now dying to see how this works and is installed. I am definitely going to try to ninja my way into a practice or 20. I'm interested to see how spacing can be maintained consistently when you are bringing screeners to the ball.
Here are a couple quick things I'm going to look for on the offensive end.
Pass recipient-
Does he hold the ball a couple beats? He cannot just immediately dribble or swing pass it along. He needs to let a couple beats go by to read cutters, off ball screens, and emerging paths to the basket.
Passer-
Should never stay in position after the pass. He should immediately be screening, cutting to the paint, or v cutting back to position. Or if the pass is out of a screen- flairing or screening the screener.
Off ball - Are the players going through the motions or are they reading the defense and screening and cutting with intent? It is very easy to look busy in this offense- but without reading the contact, positioning, and tendencies of the defense- it's just busy work that leads nowhere.
Maintaining offensive rebounding roles-
Out of a properly spaced motion set, 3 players should be crashing hard, pg should be back and a guard should be guarding middle no man's land so that sloppy outlets are picked off, ball is slowed, and break doesn't gain steam.
Team IQ -
Do they make the right decisions? Do they trust that they will see the ball again if they pass it on or do they try and force a score or assist when nothing is open? Are they always deep in the shot clock or are they playing smart and catching the defensive mistakes? Is the team recognizing mismatches and running sets to exploit them, or are they just running a clockwork motion?
It's going to be a lot of fun and interesting to watch in my opinion.
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