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Message: [QUOTE="BBallF, post: 3821383, member: 10435"] I rewatched the game this morning paying close attention to the half court offense. Hoyas were using a 1-2-2 zone and packing the lane. The standard offense against that is a 2-1-2 with an overload meaning that your bring the ball to one side so you have 4 players against 3 on the strong side. For most of the time we ran a 1-3-1 set in which the high post player is supposed to turn, look for a flashing player underneath or start a drive move and dish as the weak side player cuts in back of the defender or that high post player stops and takes a 12 foot pull up. When Liv got the ball at the high post she actually took a step back not forward putting her past or near the 3 point line and taking her out of position for a rebound. While her numbers were good yesterday in terms of FG% she missed all of her 3s against Tennessee. In short, she should be on the low block most of the time and the player on the high post should be one who can dribble, drive, or shoot a pull up. CW is shooting 57% from 2 point land this season but 30% from 3 point land. Although Evina is 40% from 3 point land( which is equal to 60% from 2 point land in terms of points) she is an astounding 75% from 2 point land. The obvious conclusion- EW and CW ( and others) need more shots from inside the arc and that's one of the primary results that the zone offense should get as its goal for this team. If they pack the paint, we try to compress it more, going old school and looking for closer shots. This will also open up the 3 ball more fully with greater spacing. Geno has admitted you have to make 3s in order to win these days. However, just shooting 3s is usually a losing formula unless your team has solid proficiency there.We are going to see a lot of zone this year and it takes patience to break it but the weakness is always in the middle which I don't think we effectively have been exploiting thus far this year. [/QUOTE]

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