Re: #2
The purpose of hedging high ball screens is to keep the guard out of the paint. Once a point guard gets downhill, he can score, hit the roll man, or create advantagesany paint touch is trouble.
If the big's hedge forces the guard to retreat or go laterally and allows our on-ball defender to recover, the hedge has done its job.
The tradeoff is the guard may attempt a difficult pass to an open man, but that's extremely hard to execute unless there's a breakdown in backside rotation, but that's not on Dort.
Another risk is the roll man gaining deep position. That happened once, but Dort's size and strength prevented a basket.
Before the game, I said we should hedge because we're good at it but not overuse it since LV would adjust and punish it with their shooters. That's exactly how it was managed, and it worked. Good coaching.
Bottom line: Dort is excellent at blitzing.
CNHTH said:
My takeaways having just gotten home…
1.) we were in the bonus with I think 12:36 left in the first half and only turned that into just 2 1 and 1s (in fact maybe it was only 1 since pippen' trip to the line was a shooting foul I believe) And even worse than face value, if memory serves correct we were taking the shot clock down to sub 10 seconds for pretty much every possession for the rest of the half settling for jumpers with 4 seconds on the clock. What the ****?
That simply cannot happen at any level of basketball ever. I'm sorry, but that is unacceptable. Give the ball to dai dai, give the ball to TT and send them hard to the rim.
I'm still pissed about this and likely will be tomorrow as well.
2.) I'm really getting tired of watching our big jump out high to chase (but never actually trap) the ball handler like some sort of analog of a box and 1 defense. The problem is Dort isn't our best defender. And he isn't agile enough to make it back to the paint when someone cuts. Which is why he keeps getting burned. We did this last year with slightly better results with Sissoko but even then you look at games like the sdsu game and the same result aka burn all your energy running your bigs around to no effect.
3.) Louisville won't always shoot that well
4.) we won't always shoot that bad
5.) Chris bell needs to be featured more
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