I felt he's regressed the past two games which is to be expected by a raw freshman. He's still trying to figure out his motion on defense. He does't want to block a shot too quickly to avoid the up fake and foul, but he's now a beat behind the shot. He's keeping his hands down to prevent being pushed around but he's not taking advantage of his length to make shots more difficult if he keeps up his arms. It will be interesting to see if he gets this timing down.Kind of wish he would hold his hands up a bit higher on the post ups and make the offensive player shoot over him. With the new rules regarding defensive play in the post you pretty much can't touch a guy so they can back you down for however long they want until they decide to make a move, Brimah was making it too easy for Young by waiting to fully extend himself after the shot was released and going for impossible blocks. He would've been better off just holding his arms up high.
In a physical game like the one yesterday, I would have been OK in Brimah picking up a few more fouls. I thought he was a little intimidated by Young, and was not as aggressive as he could have been defensively.
The only "new rule" on post defense is the No-Duke rule where you can't jump under a guy in the air and get a charge. I didn't love the officiating last night, but you can still bump inside.
Lol, that's not true at all, you can't put a hand on a guy in the post now, they never enforced that before. Its why you see guys now defending the post with there hands damn near tied behind their backs when they're getting backed down.
That is 100% correct. I never understood why players that tall who catch the ball close to the basket feel the need to put it back on the floor. I think Brimah has learned an incredible amount in the short time he's been playing hoops. I really see a huge upside for his potential...I know it shouldn't be particularly impressive when a 7-footer dunks the basketball, but I loved the fact that Brimah caught the ball above his head, kept the ball there, and finished strong on his one basket last night. So many big guys don't do that - if that were Olander or Nolan, they bring the ball down and either get stripped low or blocked/fouled high because of the extra split second it takes to bring the ball down and then back up.
And this has happened in previous years, but when we get "block" happy it puts the players out of position to box out and rebound. Happened on a couple crucial plays down the stretch where multiple guys were going for the block and leaving their guys under the hoop.