Doubling their bigs?
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I wonder if Painter is overthinking this. Perhaps we wants to keep Haas and Swanigan from potentially getting in foul trouble, but we are giving up easy layups because of the double of their post when they are not much of a threat to score from the post.
Were he a post scoring threat then maybe I would understand it but he is not a mismatch down low and we've ended up scrambling to cover open men allowing way too many offensive rebounds in the process or open 3's. Puzzling move honesty if they are being told to do so.
Painter needs to go to Boeheim in the offseason and ask him if he can teach him the 2-3 zone. He needs to learn more schemes so he has more in his arsenal. If he doesn't try to learn how to coach and employ different schemes, Purdue needs to update its coaching staff within the next few years.
I knew this was coming. You get 15 yards for piling on.
Painter = average coach. When he comes up agains the big boys, in either recruiting or coaching, he is revealed for what he is. Can we do better? Not clear.
Kansas shot 53.6%, 15-28 3pt, pretty standard in most coaches books that you play zone when a team cannot hit 3's, maybe a change up for a possession or two but last night Kansas was lights out shooting and a zone would not have changed the outcome!
Even you can teach a 2-3 zone. You just can't make it work when you are shorter and slower than your opponent on the perimeter. Kansas would have shot 80% from three then started blowing by our close outs just for sport.
I think we may have reverted to some old habits against their bigs as a result of the league we play in. That certainly sparked their run, and we are a team that is not built to make a comeback against a team like theirs.
How would this have helped the 3-point onslaught? Mostly an honest question, I am not good enough with the X/O game to know one way or the other.
Painter is a great coach maximizing the talent we have gotten. We took a significant step back in recruiting a handful of years ago that seems to line up with Zo's departure. That has largely turned around within the past couple years, thankfully. If we can land another five star or two and demonstrate an ability to grow and groom that talent into NBA potential, we will be in good shape.
The problem is we will never consistently beat the blue bloods for one-and-done players. For that reason, we cannot do better. We are much better in our current situation than trying the coaching carousel.
How would this have helped the 3-point onslaught? Mostly an honest question, I am not good enough with the X/O game to know one way or the other.
Painter is a great coach maximizing the talent we have gotten. We took a significant step back in recruiting a handful of years ago that seems to line up with Zo's departure. That has largely turned around within the past couple years, thankfully. If we can land another five star or two and demonstrate an ability to grow and groom that talent into NBA potential, we will be in good shape.
The problem is we will never consistently beat the blue bloods for one-and-done players. For that reason, we cannot do better. We are much better in our current situation than trying the coaching carousel.
So you continue to play man against a team that is eating your lunch and NEVER change up the defense? They have superior athletes and so we attempt to play them man?
There are some games you just can't win. It happens and you get over it. You can't change the entire scheme of a team based off a few bad games during the season when we won far more than we lost.
I have an issue with this.... but it's more of an issue that we kept doubling.... I don't mind trying it out for a stretch... but it seemed like we kept doing it...
Personally, I thought you doubled when you wanted to get the ball out of the hands of the post player.... given kansas' personnel, I want their bigs to have the ball as much as possible.
Like I said... I don't mind the move to double, but to continue doubling was a head scratcher
Personally, I thought you doubled when you wanted to get the ball out of the hands of the post player.... given kansas' personnel, I want their bigs to have the ball as much as possible.
Like I said... I don't mind the move to double, but to continue doubling was a head scratcher
Other than when I typed occasionally, yes, he tried different players but once it turned into a track meet and with them shooting the lights out from both 3pt and 2pt and us turning over the ball and shooting too soon and missing was the bigger problem in the loss... not playing zone and that is on the players we have!
Do what you do...IF we were virginia and we double the post all the time and that's what we work on all year long then keep doubling the post looking to create turnovers. I'm sure that's the thought process was to try and get Lucas to panic. But that's not what we do. Obviously a regrettable move in hindsight.
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