Defense: Our help defense was lost. Notice on rewatching the first half that we had nobody to help early on dribble drive penetration and contain the ball. The ball screen defense was varied and inconsistent. They need to find something and stick to it hard. The switching was probably better than the hard hedge and chase over the screen but neither worked well due to execution. Here is a good style that could work by comparison on ball screens:
This is a good concept for empty side ball screens. The effort on close outs was not great either but if you rewatch things our defensive rebounding killed us first half and offered up too many second chance points.
Offense: this is where it concerns me more. First off, we have no transition break for easy buckets. We don't run lanes and we don't push the ball with any pace. Its as if we are being told to walk the ball up. This happened a lot last year I recall. This loses us many easy chance buckets that can also get foul shots. Now if we walk up the ball with a good halfcourt offense than maybe we will be okay. The current sets were mostly move the ball around and post up Waley or Contrell. There was no off ball screens, no ghost screens, basket cuts, stagger screens for shooters and most of all we slow it down. By itself this would be the anomaly but from previous seasons we can see this looks like a trend. I like the coaches here and think they are good guys but this isn't working. Hell Bellermine would come in here and destroy us. We have no team identity right now. Based on that we will struggle unless things change. I have seen drills at practice and their shell defense drill is good and its a basic system but I don't know much about the offense. It looks farther behind than it should be right now.
common ncaa sets to run on offense
no middle vs forcing middle defense concepts
Watch these two videos for some ideas on how teams defend or use certain sets to get scoring. We do none of this right now. I think we are a "no-middle" team but its hard to tell watching us.
Run some Zoom action or Spain pick and roll for basic stuff. Curious to hear others on this.
This is a good concept for empty side ball screens. The effort on close outs was not great either but if you rewatch things our defensive rebounding killed us first half and offered up too many second chance points.
Offense: this is where it concerns me more. First off, we have no transition break for easy buckets. We don't run lanes and we don't push the ball with any pace. Its as if we are being told to walk the ball up. This happened a lot last year I recall. This loses us many easy chance buckets that can also get foul shots. Now if we walk up the ball with a good halfcourt offense than maybe we will be okay. The current sets were mostly move the ball around and post up Waley or Contrell. There was no off ball screens, no ghost screens, basket cuts, stagger screens for shooters and most of all we slow it down. By itself this would be the anomaly but from previous seasons we can see this looks like a trend. I like the coaches here and think they are good guys but this isn't working. Hell Bellermine would come in here and destroy us. We have no team identity right now. Based on that we will struggle unless things change. I have seen drills at practice and their shell defense drill is good and its a basic system but I don't know much about the offense. It looks farther behind than it should be right now.
common ncaa sets to run on offense
no middle vs forcing middle defense concepts
Watch these two videos for some ideas on how teams defend or use certain sets to get scoring. We do none of this right now. I think we are a "no-middle" team but its hard to tell watching us.
Run some Zoom action or Spain pick and roll for basic stuff. Curious to hear others on this.
