Reply to thread

Message

[QUOTE="billsin01, post: 4834676, member: 837"]
not sure I am a good go-to on Xs and Os but from the time I've been watching basketball set plays are what the guy without the ball are doing. We seem to be inordinately focused on playing off the guy with the ball.

If you re-watch, you'll see how many screens and re-screens Colgate ran to free guys up as well as how much movement was involved in getting their bigs isolated on the low block (the offense's left block in particular). That movement also makes them harder to box out (though our bigger problem was effort and hustle and fight in that department for a good chunk of the game).

The best play I saw us run was our first possession of the game when Bell set a back screen (a good back screen, not a whiff) and then floated to the corner/wing for an open three. YOu've got two nice options there with a back cut and the pop of the screener. Nothing fancy but something off ball to give you a chance at a look. We just do very little of it generally.

So i'm not sure i would claim to what, exactly, an offense would look like, I do know four guys standing around watching a ball handler and then some ball screens from time to time is an incredibly easy offense to defend and rebound against.
[/QUOTE]

Verification

What is a Syracuse fan's favorite color?