Geno’s 2 rules for shot selection

[HuskyNan]

 

[my2cents]

Paige breaks rule number one a lot.

 

[HuskieDawg]

Paige breaks rule number one a lot.

Paige isn’t the only one.

Look the two rules make sense, but there is some gray area as shot selection can be an eye of the beholder type thing. Just like there are obvious good shots, there are obvious bad shots, there are also a lot of shots that are kind of in the middle. Paige and her god given ability may look at a shot as good, where a different player based on their abilities would be viewed as bad.

Maybe we are passing up open shots because the team has heard so many times to pass the ball to their teammates. What makes their open shot better than my open shot. Is driving the lane for a contested layup a better shot than kicking it out to a person wide open at the 3 point line who may not be a great 3 point shooter, but she is wide open.

i think our team gets caught in the middle at a bit with their shot selection decision making.

 

[Rowdy831]

A lot goes on within an offense way before shot selection becomes part of the plan. Right now UConn is initiating their offense when KK is not on the floor way to far from the basket. Secondly when the wings get the ball they are not ready to shoot so they end up putting the ball on the floor and dribbling into trouble. Most of this is because they have players in the game that are guards and they tend to dribble first, shoot second.

The only shooters they have on the team right now are Paige, Azzi and Sarah, The others are building to the level they need to be to be considered a shooter with Ash getting there and KK improving too. KC and Morgan are both liabilities on offense and should only be in the game if they need a defensive presence or they are resting one of the other players.

Aubrey might not give you too much on the offense but she can rebound and defend which is needed badly on this team when playing the better competition. She is also longer that her height would make you think she is so she would be a good 4 with Jana at the 5. Then use Ash and KK for sparks off the bench and resting the stars when needed.

 

[packwrap]

Aubrey might not give you too much on the offense but she can rebound and defend which is needed badly on this team when playing the better competition. She is also longer that her height would make you think she is so she would be a good 4 with Jana at the 5. Then use Ash and KK for sparks off the bench and resting the stars when needed.

One of the conundrums I have with our perspective on Aubrey is somehow the 10 points Aubrey quickly cobbles together is not considered - offense. Yet, it still goes on the scoreboard as 10 points.

I understand it's because she is not a consistent 3pt sharpshooter, and opposing defense can lag off her. Still if I give her minutes to a shooter and that shooter goes 0-3 for zero points, then Aubrey's 10 points of 'not offense' looks pretty good.

Similarly, we complain when we lose to athletic teams that they defend hard causing us to hurry, they jump high to rebound and block shots, and they get all the loose balls and putbacks. (but of course they can't shoot and are not skilled players)

In the end though, if the SEC unskilled athletes accumulate 80 scrappy points, and we score a beautiful 76 on offense...we still lose 80-76 and leave unhappy.

Aubrey was plus 9 in limited minutes v Tenn. No deer in the headlights look, either.

 

[Bone Dog]

I remember another numerical rule he mentions in practice videos:

When you get the ball, you can do 1 of 3 things, shoot, pass or drive. What you must not do is waste time in fakes or other indecisive things.​

The most recent iteration of this was a coaching moment with Ash -- "Do one of the 3 things, anything else is nonsense" -- and she seemed to absorb it. The point seems to be that a player should already know what to do with the ball before it gets into their hands. Don't wait until you catch it to think about what to do. Early in the season, Sarah seemed to have embodied this ethos in her play.

But for the players to know what to do at any moment, depending on where they are on the court, where the rest of the team is, what sort of set is being run, what the defense is doing, where they are in the shot-clock -- all of this takes a ton of practice. These are trained responses, not decisions reflected on in the moment. And it's all very unit-specific. You have to know what the other players out there expect and what to expect from them. None of it is spontaneous, though if it is done really well, it will seem spontaneous. Like catching lightning in a bottle.

 

[Blakeon18]

Kinda relevant? Long ago in a game against Texas...pretty sure it was the NCAA semi-finals....Taurasi was on the team.
We were down about 8 with maybe 5 or 6 minutes to go. In the huddle Geno says to everyone...'if you have an open layup....shoot. Otherwise make sure Dee touches the ball on every possession. Obviously that didn't mean she would always shoot on every possession but the message was clear....Dee needs to control the offense for us to come back.
And we did... with a win to the final game...won that one too.

 

[HuskyNan]

One of the conundrums I have with our perspective on Aubrey is somehow the 10 points Aubrey quickly cobbles together is not considered - offense. Yet, it still goes on the scoreboard as 10 points.

I understand it's because she is not a consistent 3pt sharpshooter, and opposing defense can lag off her. Still if I give her minutes to a shooter and that shooter goes 0-3 for zero points, then Aubrey's 10 points of 'not offense' looks pretty good.

Similarly, we complain when we lose to athletic teams that they defend hard causing us to hurry, they jump high to rebound and block shots, and they get all the loose balls and putbacks. (but of course they can't shoot and are not skilled players)

In the end though, if the SEC unskilled athletes accumulate 80 scrappy points, and we score a beautiful 76 on offense...we still lose 80-76 and leave unhappy.

Aubrey was plus 9 in limited minutes v Tenn. No deer in the headlights look, either.

Aubrey has always scored a lot of points by grabbing offensive rebounds and getting the putback

 

[David54]

I think the bigger problem last nite was missing open shots not passing them up.

 

[BBallF]

Paige breaks rule number one a lot.

So do others. Rule #2 gets broken too a lot. We tend to force when we should be distributing.

 

[mainerhuski]

One of the conundrums I have with our perspective on Aubrey is somehow the 10 points Aubrey quickly cobbles together is not considered - offense. Yet, it still goes on the scoreboard as 10 points.

I understand it's because she is not a consistent 3pt sharpshooter, and opposing defense can lag off her. Still if I give her minutes to a shooter and that shooter goes 0-3 for zero points, then Aubrey's 10 points of 'not offense' looks pretty good.

Similarly, we complain when we lose to athletic teams that they defend hard causing us to hurry, they jump high to rebound and block shots, and they get all the loose balls and putbacks. (but of course they can't shoot and are not skilled players)

In the end though, if the SEC unskilled athletes accumulate 80 scrappy points, and we score a beautiful 76 on offense...we still lose 80-76 and leave unhappy.

Aubrey was plus 9 in limited minutes v Tenn. No deer in the headlights look, either.

I agree. I'm ready for a KK, Azzi, Paige, Sarah, Aubrey starting five, with Ashlynn, KC, Jana, Morgan and Allie ready to sub in (Ice, too, once her shoulder is up to it.) I think we would have won v TN if those who were playing tough defense AND scoring (per min/efficiency) had gotten the lion's share of minutes? (e.g. KK v. KC, Aubrey v. Jana.)