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Message: [QUOTE="Gurleyman, post: 4483572, member: 175"] Yeah. if you want to get teams out of their defensive alignment and get them scrambling, you have to be a threat. When Newton drives, you don’t have to step up and stop him - bigs can stay at home and take away the lob, and wait until he leaves his feet to challenge, and it seems like at that point, he often doesn’t have a plan. If he becomes a threat, he can bring that help defense sooner and more options open up. Jackson isn’t much of a threat either, but you at least have to stop him from just taking off and dunking so there’s more potential for creating spacing. Right now, the game plan against us is a little too simple. Hawkins’ defender locks over every screen (on or off ball) and takes away the catch and shoot. Newton and Jackson you can play for the pass on the drive. The only complicated schemes that get you out of alignment are figuring out how to deal with Sanogo - or sometimes a second defender shading over to Hawkins if it looks like he’s coming open off the ball. Karaban is the only screener where you really have to worry about the pick and pop, but unless he’s screening for Hawkins, you can often just let the screened defender trail and get back in the play, and Hawkins isn’t a great p’n’r guy at this point in his career either. This worried me after the Oklahoma State win when our offense was in the mud a bit. We opened up a 17-point halftime lead (they had some foul trouble which helped) and then the second half we were bogged down. We were protecting a lead, so no big deal, but we weren’t getting many looks in a game that was moving at a slow pace. [/QUOTE]

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