No one has thoughts on handling WVU press?
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Plenty of thoughts LOL. First of all a team has to identify the type of press
that's pressing you.
Huggy doesn't use the various zone presses designed in simply forcing you into a
turnover (of course all presses want turnovers).
Huggy wants to amp the pressure up both in speed and intensity. He's willing
to go man to man, full court, and double team where he can. As is typical
with many full court presses, he double teams the player who gets the
inbounds pass and overplays everyone from there. Obviously with any
double team, someone is open. A good pressing team tries to make sure
the the open man is the one farthest from the ball.
IMO his presses are more physical than most. If the refs let things go, it
works to his advantage. What I saw yesterday was a WVU team interested
in causing havoc and taking us out of our game with their press. They
overplayed our guys whenever they could....we had a hard time getting out of it and creating a mismatch into a score.
If you look at the Niagara game, their PG beat our press by dribbling out of
the double team twice, got down court and dished off for open dunks.
You do that to any press and they'll take the press off..... as they forced us
to do in that game. In yesterday's game WVU didn't have to take it off,
because even when we did beat it, we often ended up forcing, or rushing
shots, passes, and making unforced errors. Those are turnovers.
A press doesn't have to get a steal for a turnover. WVU's press is designed
to cause havoc and take the other team out of their game.
that's pressing you.
Huggy doesn't use the various zone presses designed in simply forcing you into a
turnover (of course all presses want turnovers).
Huggy wants to amp the pressure up both in speed and intensity. He's willing
to go man to man, full court, and double team where he can. As is typical
with many full court presses, he double teams the player who gets the
inbounds pass and overplays everyone from there. Obviously with any
double team, someone is open. A good pressing team tries to make sure
the the open man is the one farthest from the ball.
IMO his presses are more physical than most. If the refs let things go, it
works to his advantage. What I saw yesterday was a WVU team interested
in causing havoc and taking us out of our game with their press. They
overplayed our guys whenever they could....we had a hard time getting out of it and creating a mismatch into a score.
If you look at the Niagara game, their PG beat our press by dribbling out of
the double team twice, got down court and dished off for open dunks.
You do that to any press and they'll take the press off..... as they forced us
to do in that game. In yesterday's game WVU didn't have to take it off,
because even when we did beat it, we often ended up forcing, or rushing
shots, passes, and making unforced errors. Those are turnovers.
A press doesn't have to get a steal for a turnover. WVU's press is designed
to cause havoc and take the other team out of their game.
Thank you for the reply. In an earlier thread I asked if we could have thrown long or brought Kene back to help.
A few other posters also answered your question. One poster saidWVU wasn't
as good pressing without Carter from last year. Another said they were pressing a young, inexperienced team (Pitt). Both very true.
I doubt bringing anyone (Kene) back would have helped yesterday. However
you raise a good point....if you have a BIG who can handle and he brings his
man back to guard him, that helps.....reason being that Big guarding him isn't
going to be that fluid way out on the open court. That would especially be true
if the press were a man to man press.
Gary, cut it out! Enough! LOL This is the stuff I like to talk about, as opposed
to comparisons of Stallings and Dixon etc.
If you watched WVU play Buffalo early in the season they came out trying to press the same way they have in prior years and it just wasn’t working. They just don’t have the personnel.
In subsequent games it looked like Huggins made some adjustments but it’s still not quite the same. If Pitt had played them a little later in the season I expect they wouldve handled it a little better.
In subsequent games it looked like Huggins made some adjustments but it’s still not quite the same. If Pitt had played them a little later in the season I expect they wouldve handled it a little better.
