Haven't posted in a long while but had to comment on what I saw watching about 1/2 of each game. You teach grade school kids that when someone picks up the ball (Carr) you v cut down on your defender get in front of them and come to the ball...Like box them out. You should be open 100% of the time...Our guys just danced with their defender like that had no clue. Yeah Car shouldn't pick up his dribble but he should have had (2) wide open options to dish to. The other elementary issue was when you get a rebound you RIP AWAY from the defender not present the ball to them. That was hard to watch a 170 kid rip the ball out of our 4-5 hands. The curse of playing 100 AAU games with very little practice stressing fundamentals
Fundamentals.......
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The other fundamental that was apparent against Montana was that your big guys need to crash the boards for missed shots. Watch the highlight of Luther’s key missed jumper off the inbounds play... as soon as the shot left his hands, the other players immediately turned and started to run back. There was a player (can’t remember who, maybe Stevenson) who was on the backside of the rim and could have potentially grabbed the board if he would have stayed in position and gone to the glass.
On the rebounding question, that's not a fundamental, that's a coaching decision. A lot of NBA teams for that matter have all but given up on offensive rebounding because advanced stats suggest the points you give up in transition are greater than the points you gain in second possessions off offensive rebounds.
That said, on that particular play, yes, we should have had some guys crash the glass.
Separately from all of that, this team does not defensive rebound well enough. We're not long and athletic enough to grab rebounds above the rim and not fundamentally strong enough at boxing out to get the below the rim rebounds.
That said, on that particular play, yes, we should have had some guys crash the glass.
Separately from all of that, this team does not defensive rebound well enough. We're not long and athletic enough to grab rebounds above the rim and not fundamentally strong enough at boxing out to get the below the rim rebounds.
All god points mentioned. The two games were different concerning offensive rebounding.
Game one we ran a perimeter passing game that basically never finished with anyone in the lane. The second game we did much less of this and actually ran some inside/outside
stuff. Now did we rebound well when we were there?...sometimes. The point is, we
at least had some inside presence in the second game. Inside presence doesn't
happen by accident, it's coached in practice and the players have to be reminded of
it during the game.
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