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Message: [QUOTE="rrlbees, post: 2431903, member: 96"] Why we don’t run more has nothing to do with Franks handle, good, bad or average. I think it’s average. He had the one bad game handle wise. People say he dribbles it off his feet. He doesn’t. People say he gets his pocket picked a lot, he doesn’t. Most games he doesn’t get it picked at all. Most of his turnovers are the passing variety (some are the receiving players fault) or getting stripped when going up in the lane after driving. I’m not going to say anything you don’t know, but running, especially off rebounds, isn’t just the PG or guard. When we steal the ball, I feel we run as much as expected. Many times I’ve seen Frank or Tyus steal the ball and we push it. Frank with the dunk the other night, Frank using that little twist move going up, Tyus off a Frank steal which was 100% a foul but the refs screwed us and should have been 2FTs. That’s a few just the other night. We run often on steals. Frank a couple times has passed when he shouldn’t or not passed when he should, but those are the exceptions and will get better with experience. The real bulk of being a running team is off rebounds. We’re a pretty good rebounding team. So why not run more when we have pretty good athletes? JB may a couple times a game yell to push it, but that’s not necessarily a fast break nor is it a lot of possessions. The guards, mainly the PG have 2 choices on a rebound. Come back for the ball or break and receive an outlet pass. Why do Frank and/or Tyus 99% of the time come back to the rebounder? Has to be a strategic thing and direction from JB. Otherwise they’d catch hell. So why aren’t our guards instructed to take off or at least start moving up court? Can our bigs rebound, turn and make a good, on target outlet pass? I don’t really know but seeing the youth and how we don’t do it, I’m betting they aren’t very good at it moreso than saying Frank can’t run a break. Even with guys that could make outlets, it’s not just the PG that needs to know “how” to run a break. Spacing, angles to the basket, etc. Again experience probably hurts in general. Bottom line is that there are many reasons we may not run a lot of fast breaks, but it’s not as simple as just saying it’s all Frank. [/QUOTE]

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