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[QUOTE="Sherman20, post: 5337475, member: 6357"]
For people who claim we don’t run any offense, look at the first half of the Cal game. Multiple off ball screening actions on most possesstions, brush screens, well executed flare screens, back door and straight line cuts into the lane on many possessions, posting up Lampkin in the lane. Not just endless high ball screens. Now that said, Cal doesn’t have a good defense. But the Syracuse coaches can scheme and the players are capable. I suspect when they meet resistance from better defenses, the players tend to cave and resort to too much isolation instead of continual movement and screening actions. We obviously have a talent disparity with many of the top teams so that’s part of the issue. But the team loses focus on both the offensive and defensive ends way too often, and I think the coaches have been struggling to get the players to maintain their focus and sharpness after they meet stout defensive resistance, instead of continuing to set screens and create off ball movement. I liked the improvement we saw against Cal, though.

As for the defense, the focus and intensity in the first half was very good. And I liked Red switching up defenses (man to zone and back to man) to confuse and disorient. Maybe Red should keep doing the intense pre-game defensive workouts to wake these players up. We could’ve won that Stanford game if not for the 2-25 start.
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