Louisville 1980 has the size and athleticism to swith all positions and keep the ball in frontof you. Switching can cause huge problems...but if all the players are very similar...it can be your strength...
It is crucial "IF" the one getting screened for is a threat on the perimeter. If not such a threat...slide under..judgement call. If the F'ing refs let you guard them OR called moving screens...either to not enhance the O it wouldn't be as effective. Used to be...it was a natural place to double the ball...which the "weave" does as well. Used to b you never wanted a player going behind another player that has the ball becasue you just brought the double team...but now the refs just call a foul so we can get notion out of defending with any physical presence on the perimeter...but let them beat the hell out of the inside player...Mason never has to go through this to get his...
It is crucial "IF" the one getting screened for is a threat on the perimeter. If not such a threat...slide under..judgement call. If the F'ing refs let you guard them OR called moving screens...either to not enhance the O it wouldn't be as effective. Used to be...it was a natural place to double the ball...which the "weave" does as well. Used to b you never wanted a player going behind another player that has the ball becasue you just brought the double team...but now the refs just call a foul so we can get notion out of defending with any physical presence on the perimeter...but let them beat the hell out of the inside player...Mason never has to go through this to get his...
No question the rules and calls favor the offense more today and no question some players using the ball screen can shoot 33% or better if "open" from the three off the dribble. With that percent there is more judgment than someone shooting 44% in the same scenario if both shoot 10 shots or so. Most schools in trying to build a team may not have the luxury of having enough players to switch everything. I wonder what the stats would be if the D couldn't force away from the screen and slid under more often...course I can wonder that because I have nothing in it. I expect the D to slowly slide back in place in a few years...
If Haarms and Ewing start we are in trouble. Of the 5 players mentioned, Carsen is the most athletic and he is 5'10"... if you think that 5 has the athleticism to make a tourney run, I don't know if you have been watching this tournament very closely.
Yes but we need to worry about teams like Kansas. I'm not saying we will field a more athletic (speed, side to side quickness, jumping) team than them but we need to have some athletes on the roster that can hang with them and give us more fast break opportunities to dominate B1G play. Guy's like VE are not athletic... dude is 6'8" and I don't think I've ever seen him dunk an alley oop. My point is, if you are going to offer a fairly unpolished bruiser like Eden Ewing... make sure he can at least do a tomahawk and get off the block quickly on D.
Vince did an ally oop against Maryland last year on a fast break from PJT.
Four of the five names listed have never played a second of college ball and that would be an experienced lineup. And never seen them play, athletic at the college level.
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If Butler got them both I will knock hard on them every December until they can never take recruits from us. At this point I prefer Hunter more than Phinisee and I think Hunter can play PG somehow.
Well said and your kids were lucky to have you teach them some things!
Not going to take the credit but my players did end up winning a sectional title when they got to high school as seniors!
But would we have landed Vince if Willis was already established at Purdue?
Another lefty...Matt it appears likes lefy handed players and it certainly allows a couple of players with strong hands different side of the courts...since many are right handed
I din't know that but keeping open an eye to see it appeared he was more interested than the 10% of the population they represent. I like it becasue you could have one player that is better going left and another that is better going right whether they are on a side of the court that makes it easier to get in the middle or another side that makes it easier to get baseline against some defensive approaches.
I always had a harder time as a righty guarding lefties because your left leg isn't as strong as your right leg, and the left leg is what you have to push off with when they drive to their left, if that makes any sense.
I think it is as simple as being the opposite from many players...AND IT offers strengths different than many that put defenders in position. Example you have a lefty and right handed person playing against a zone...now you have no clear cut defender and rebounder side of the zone if both are a threat. It forces a more balanced offensive game
If we played more zone, that wouldn't matter...
I think that many lefties are also amphibious. We grow up in a right handed world, so we have to learn how to do many thinks right hand too.
So you're saying many lefties are as adept on land as in water?????
I think there is some truth to that in a lot of areas, but my "anecdotal" observations are that many are worse with their right hand drbble than right handed players are with their left...perhaps due to more people use to overplaying the right handed player. I just think having "players" that their strong hands are right AND left is an offensive help mostly
It is a running joke, although a corny one, I have been using since I first heard someone else use it. I am a lefty who is somewhat ambidextrous, though in an odd way. I always shot basketball right handed but was very good with the left. I throw left but always batted right until I taught myself to hit left too in college, because the field we played on had a short porch in right field.
