Can we steal Buzz William's out of bounds plays?
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It requires someone making a jumper !
They had four out of bounds plays from under the Pitt basket in the second half. Three, three, two, three. Can't do much better than that.
Yeah I remember our coaches telling us in 6th grade..... The goal is to score on the out of bounds plays. Getting the ball in was the 3rd option.
Ranking the means in which a basketball team can score (from easiest to most difficult):
1. Free throws.
2. Fast-break, transition baskets.
3. Offensive zone in-bound plays, particularly from from underneath one's own basket.
4. Half-court offensive sets.
Pitt:
1. Room for improvement. Fatigue negatively effecting performance. Cost the Panthers a few games this year.
2. Can't fast break if you don't dominate the defensive glass. Conversely, opponents are getting 2, 3 and even 4 shots instead. Noticed lately that Pitt's guards are slowing up to setup the offense and passing up opportunities to beat the opponents upcourt, the exact opposite what they should be doing when the opponent is playing zone defense.
3. No evidence of trying to score at all. Content to just get it inbounds, usually with long passes across the half court line. Opposing defenses not being forced to defend a shot, therefore no danger of fouling.
4. Draw your own conclusions on what you are seeing. Rather then listing a variety of deficiencies that this team is suffering through, I'll just make a general comment. Teams that score most of their half-court offensive points off of an assist outperform teams that score most of their half-court offensive points from individual scoring efforts.
Things will get better when more ACC level players fill out the roster. At that time, Pitt will get more scoring from from categories 1 through 3 above and be less reliant on category 4, the most difficult means to score at any level of basketball.
1. Free throws.
2. Fast-break, transition baskets.
3. Offensive zone in-bound plays, particularly from from underneath one's own basket.
4. Half-court offensive sets.
Pitt:
1. Room for improvement. Fatigue negatively effecting performance. Cost the Panthers a few games this year.
2. Can't fast break if you don't dominate the defensive glass. Conversely, opponents are getting 2, 3 and even 4 shots instead. Noticed lately that Pitt's guards are slowing up to setup the offense and passing up opportunities to beat the opponents upcourt, the exact opposite what they should be doing when the opponent is playing zone defense.
3. No evidence of trying to score at all. Content to just get it inbounds, usually with long passes across the half court line. Opposing defenses not being forced to defend a shot, therefore no danger of fouling.
4. Draw your own conclusions on what you are seeing. Rather then listing a variety of deficiencies that this team is suffering through, I'll just make a general comment. Teams that score most of their half-court offensive points off of an assist outperform teams that score most of their half-court offensive points from individual scoring efforts.
Things will get better when more ACC level players fill out the roster. At that time, Pitt will get more scoring from from categories 1 through 3 above and be less reliant on category 4, the most difficult means to score at any level of basketball.
You just nailed something that I've been meaning to say.
We have been slowing things down and not passing up the court fast enough when it's there.
I noticed that.
They are missing opportunities for easier drives and more open shots.
I didn't think most coaches even bothered with out of bounds plays anymore. Doesn't everyone nowadays just inbound into the backcourt?
A lot of them do. Our coach last season did. This season we don't do that nearly as often, although occasionally we still do it. Mostly when we can't get it in to someone else and that's the last resort option.
He was a good napper. A very underrated skill.
It’s not easy making in game adjustments when you don’t have the players to execute those changes ! He has a short bench , no great inside threat offensively or a player to defend any decent post player , no one who can consistently hit a jumper , no one who you can count on to get a crucial rebound . What he’s shown so far is that he’s taken a team with major weaknesses power by unheralded freshman and has 2 W’s and been in several other games were they could’ve won . Pretty good coaching by my account !
Last time I remember us executing this great was when we had Sam Young.
Maybe the same reason the “bigs” stink at rebounding?
I’m not saying I necessarily wanna see the next Blair judo throw of Thabeet but it would be nice to see some physicality.
It seems to me that getting in someone's path is not as difficult as rebounding. We do seem to do a decent job of drawing charges.
Agreed but it isn’t the bigs who are usually drawing charges.
And I was just speaking of the physical element. I am not saying it’s the case for sure but some guys don’t like physical contact. Our bigs seem to be more on the finesse side to me.
Good question I can't answer. Lack of interest in contact from the bigs? They are the worst screen setting team I've seen.
It's useless for them to come out and screen for X at the top of the key. They don't even slow the other guard down.
Getting in someone's way is only half of the job on a screen. The guy who is the beneficiary of the screen also needs to use it the right way. And frequently we don't. Sometimes we leave too much space between the screener and the guy who is trying to use the screen. And that's not normally the screener's fault.
It’s the setting your feet part they struggle with
Kene and brown get called for moving screens minimimally 3 times a game
Apparently you just have to be blackshear to get away with that.
