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Message: [QUOTE="Doctor Hoop, post: 4993912, member: 6845"] Ball screens work when you have a guy who can beat the switch man one-on-one (i.e., Kemba and to a certain degree Tristen), and enough perimeter shooting to keep the D spread and distracted. Off-ball screens work when you have perimeter shooting but nobody really needs to be a major one-on-one threat. It's tough on the defense because they have to switch and/or scramble to stay connected even though they often can't see the ball. If they do look for it they lose sight of their man. The key in both cases is having several perimeter threats. Just think back to Tyler Polley. Even though he had other deficiencies he was a good perimeter shooter, but on those teams almost the only one that had to be guarded at all times. Everyone else could be sloughed to help. He wasn't able to get his own shot, and wasn't good enough with the ball to be the handler working off a ball screen. Hurley had to accomplish two things. Bring in better shooters (he did), and work the offense with multiple options, including ball screens, off-ball screens, back cuts, high-low, etc. That second part requires smart players who can read the D on the fly, and both the player with the ball and those off have to make the same reads. It's that part that stood out in watching the offense this year. [/QUOTE]