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[QUOTE="ThundrTroll, post: 3834943, member: 6961"]
Therein lies the problem.  It would easier to pinpoint our defensive liabilities if our guys, including ssdm, were constantly getting beat one-on-one, but they aren’t.  I can’t make sense of our defensive scheme.  It’s like man-to-man with zone principles and it’s an absolute mess.  Our base defense seems slouched in covering areas to start with, with liberty to press out once their “man” gets the ball. It’s very reactive and leads to a lot of ball watching.

We then exacerbate the ball watching by sliding (often adjacent... see any attempted alley dodge) at any slight of danger, often to ssdm even when they aren’t being beat.  Then it is the job of that ssdm, doesn’t matter which one, to recover and scramble to find the open man.  But a pass and ball always move faster than feet so if we are not causing a turnover on the slide, we are in big trouble as these good offenses we are facing move the ball so quickly before we can recover and get set.

In short, our slides are creating offense for the opponent where they don’t even have to beat us one-on-one.  It is so frustrating because we are doing it ourselves.  Our defensive scheme really needs to be questioned.
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