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Message: [QUOTE="Cowtown, post: 1185612, member: 2350"] "Hold on thar, BabaLooey!" :) The wing rotation is the key to how the SU defense works. I'll try to be lucid. Two rules: 1.) with every pass, every player moves; 2.) defend the 3 So: ball comes up the middle of the floor; guards do [B]not [/B]allow entry to high post. [LIST] [*]Ball to wing; G1 pops out to defend ball, G2 fronts high post; W3 defends corner; 5 defends low post/short corner; [U]W4 sags to "the hole"[/U] [*]The offense will invariably skip-pass to their off ball wing; so W4 (in the hole) [U]must[/U] pop back out to that wing, until the G2 gets over, then the wing slides down to defend the corner; G1 comes across to front high post at the new ball side elbow. W3 now sags into "the hole." (mirror image). [*]If the ball does make it into the high post, 5 comes to defend, W3 and W4 [U]must[/U] collapse to the low blocks. [*]The key to making the whole thing work is knowing your job, but also recognizing it early enough to respond. [*]There are traps, etc, and a few other wrinkles, but that's the basic idea. [/LIST] So now, I'm guessing what you're getting at is how some teams, after watching film, will try to screen the weak side wing (in the hole) as they skip/reverse the ball, and at the same time leak a shooter out to the wing. The answer is the winger in the hole must have his "head on a swivel" and not allow himself to get screened inside on the reverse. He can then get to a perimeter shooter while the defense re-positions. It's a tough job, but if you're 6-7 or 6-8 and play at SU, you better be able to do it. The other thing is that when the O skips the ball over to the opposite wing, G2 is very easily screened because he was fronting the high post. Again it's a tough job to get around it, but if you're 6-3 and play at SU, you better be able to do it. Triche, MCW and AR were particularly good at this, and SU was very successful while they played those spots. [/QUOTE]

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