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Message: [QUOTE="We Are Syracuse, post: 1977832, member: 2587"] Every team in college basketball runs ball screens. it's the hardest thing to guard so I am not arguing at all for us to HAVE more PnR's. My complaint is the piss poor execution of them and the lack of details we have when running them. We do not change our offensive strategy at all with how a team guards a ball screen. For example, if a team hedges hard on the ball screen, teams in Europe "short" roll. Make a quick pass to the short roller and you are playing 4 v 3. We do not run our roll/replace action well enough (when ball handler is going away from you in a ballscreen, the player lifts or replaces the ball screen). Everyone basically runs that. The teams who run it well are extremely hard to guard. Case in point, Saint Mary's and Gonzaga. We have no secondary actions out of our transition that flow into a PnR. We stink offensively because of the lack of details and concepts to our PnR offense. Which is what I am saying in my original post. And I do think Beilein is an amazing offensive coach, but not the best. If you want to bring up one game to judge his success in the half court then I strongly question your argument. I just proved the past 5 years Syracuse's half court offense stinks. As for your point about our PnR not working because they overplayed everything, that makes no sense. Teams in Europe run PnR all game long and the defense over there is very similar to how USC played Syracuse. Disruptive and get into the passing lanes. You can run a PnR offense perfectly fine against that defense if you have competent ball handlers (which we have). Roll to the rim hard and force someone to tag the roller. Have your team spaced out and have the ball handler recognize who is tagging the roller. When he does, pass it to the offensive man whose defender is tagging the roller. This creates a long closeout (hardest thing to guard in basketball). WE CREATE ZERO LONG CLOSEOUTS [/QUOTE]

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