Missing offensive play

[NAOS]

Not now Selby. I'm talking to the three folks who understand the game.


You might want to understand what I wrote to Nerd before acting like such a bad *** and plucking the three letter word ARE out trying to pull some con that you know what you're talking about. Stay out of other peoples conversations TROLL.

lol

 

[Darkwing Duck]

Good catch there NAOS. That particularly play also emphasizes something that has been lacking. On that play, Al misses Hayward coming through (just too tentative, or he may have been caught looking for Raja down low). Either way, Devin is a little slow, but he comes over to run the PnR which keeps the offense moving. All too often, we strand the post passing option without that PnR.

FWIW, there was also a play in the last game (I think) where Al tried to go inside to a cutter under the basket and the pass got stolen. Those are the kinds of passes that make the big guys nervous and only experience will cure the disease.

Memory tells me they were facing the other basket, so that play happened in the third quarter. I remember telling the TV that it was one of those acceptable turnovers, and that play will still be available.

The other problem I've mentioned is that when the interior pass IS made, it's usually Bell who gets it down there, since he is seemingly the only one the bigs can find on that baseline cut, and Bell can't do anything with it. Miles got it once in six games, and got to the line.

 

[billyshelby]

Memory tells me they were facing the other basket, so that play happened in the third quarter. I remember telling the TV that it was one of those acceptable turnovers, and that play will still be available.

The other problem I've mentioned is that when the interior pass IS made, it's usually Bell who gets it down there, since he is seemingly the only one the bigs can find on that baseline cut, and Bell can't do anything with it. Miles got it once in six games, and got to the line.

Precisely what I'm saying. Our screens down there still need some work, but I'm regularly seeing Bell/Hayward/CJ flash, hands up, and then have to keep trucking because the bigs don't feel comfortable hitting that fast moving target. And yeah, I actually loved that turnover by Al for the same reason -- he recognized it, he tried, he just has to get sharper and more confident in it.

 

[billyshelby]

Not now Selby. I'm talking to the three folks who understand the game.


You might want to understand what I wrote to Nerd before acting like such a bad *** and plucking the three letter word ARE out trying to pull some con that you know what you're talking about. Stay out of other peoples conversations TROLL.

Ok, dude. I'm not calling YOU out with ARE. I'm just emphasizing that the wings aren't really the culprits in why the flex isn't working. I hope you're feelings are NOT hurt.

 

[billyshelby]

You see how open Hayward is on that cut? And how the offense stagnates after that? So frustrating. But what do you do when you run the play and the big refuses to try and make a pass that isn't even that precision of a pass.

And that looks like the flex and not the 1-4 UCLA offense. You can get the big the ball at the top in either set, but the 1-4 UCLA is toward the wing a few sets.

The flex can get the bigs 16-20 foot jump shots at the elbow, too. Kanter will be told to start shooting that shot soon, I imagine.

Another advantage we used to have is both Memo and Boozer were pretty dangerous out to 18. Guys had to defend up on them a little more, and both of them were at least a mild threat to put it on the floor. We're seeing guys drop back further off Al, Favors, and Kanter which, you could argue, cuts down their passing lanes a little more. That's why I'd like to see faster PnR's. Devin/Earl could read it quicker if the high post is stranded, but alternatively CJ/Hayward/Howard could be popping out, taking the pass, and then the high post could quickly move over for a wing PnR. We don't have any fluidity on these things yet.

 

[franklin]

I'm surprised InGameSTrategy and that other troll haven't followed you in here yet.