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[QUOTE="shandeezy7, post: 4834447, member: 720"]
My biggest concern is that I'm not really sure what our defensive philosophy is. Yeah the helter skelter press flustered Colgate and paid dividends for us, but when I've watched us these first few games play defense in the half court, I have no idea what we are trying to do.

Rotations are bad to non-existent. There were several examples of a Colgate ball handler getting past his man and being met with zero resistance on the way to an uncontested bucket at the rim. There was also a play where a defender left his man at the top of the key to help and JJ Starling, instead of rotating over to cover the open guy, literally just stared at his man on the wing who was 30 feet from the basket. Of course the uncontested guy drilled a three while JJ seemed to have no idea what happened.

My biggest gripe with the defensive philosophy is what the heck are we doing to defend the high screens/pick & rolls? It doesn't seem like we want to switch most times (especially with a big) but it also doesn't seem like we're too interested in fighting over screens and even the easy option of going under screens doesn't seem preferable. Too many times, the on ball defender just allows himself to be screened and the guy guarding the screener does not switch to pick up the ball. It's resulted in too many open looks or easy paths to the basket.

How does this stuff get corrected before next week, when the level of competition shoots way up?
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