I DESPISE The Way Notre Dame "Plays Basketball"

[mcs333]

I agree it's sour grapes. Brey did an outstanding job today. His game plan put his team in position to win and they executed it very well. It is difficult to win on the road and he beat a ranked team that had already beat his team at home. Breyer job well done. We should focus on how NG,Smith, DD and TO played 40 plus min. with 3 points on 1-5 and zero, yes zero rebounds. We need way more production from these guys. Add the lack of production from AO and an off day from Napier and a defeat is almost always certain. We are all hopeful for a turnaround, but right now there are few glimmers of hope.

 

[champs99and04]

It's a gimmick as much as anything else is. He plays slow-down half-court basketball. Teams that don't like it must need to press and trap the **** out of his teams and take it out of the "burn" offense's hands. Some teams run, he does the opposite. There's one ball. Force his teams to beat you. The "burn" works poorly when they are down by a good margin.

If by "slow it down, half court" you mean dribbling the ball for 25 seconds then putting up a shot, then yeah, I agree. As I said, I'm by no means suggesting it was the reason we lost. UConn played like , and deserved to lose. I'm fine with teams that run efficient half-court offense and use the whole shotclock to get a shot, but there is nothing more lame than holding the ball for 20 seconds before getting into your offense. I blame the long shotclock as much as I blame Brey.

 

[zls44]

Mike Brey's comments said it all. ND controlled the tempo and that tires opponenets. It's psychology. The opponent is beaten in his head because he can't conrol tempo.

It's not psychology- it's being an incapable recruiter and making up for your own deficiencies with gimmicks.

 

[Waquoit]

It is not basketball. It is chucking and praying. It is not coached, it is not taught, and it can only be practiced to a point. Luck plays a tremendous factor. It is slow, boring, and drives people away from watching the sport. Same for the flopping inside.

It's hoop right out of a HOF coach's playbook - Pat Summitt.

 

[BlueMAB]

If by "slow it down, half court" you mean dribbling the ball for 25 seconds then putting up a shot, then yeah, I agree. As I said, I'm by no means suggesting it was the reason we lost. UConn played like , and deserved to lose. I'm fine with teams that run efficient half-court offense and use the whole shotclock to get a shot, but there is nothing more lame than holding the ball for 20 seconds before getting into your offense. I blame the long shotclock as much as I blame Brey.

I'm having a hard time seeing how their offense differed from ours. Other than the fact that theirs was well executed, involved movement and passing, and led to open shots. While ours.....didn't.

Either way, both teams took most of their shots with fewer than 10 seconds on the clock. It's not like UConn was running quick, crisp, offensive sets that led to quick, open shots.

What we saw today was a basketball team beat a group of guys that play basketball.

By the way, you can't hold the ball for 20 seconds and then start your offense if the defense doesn't let you.

 

[champs99and04]

I'm having a hard time seeing how their offense differed from ours. Other than the fact that theirs was well executed, involved movement and passing, and led to open shots. While ours.....didn't.

Either way, both teams took most of their shots with fewer than 10 seconds on the clock. It's not like UConn was running quick, crisp, offensive sets that led to quick, open shots.

What we saw today was a basketball team beat a group of guys that play basketball.

By the way, you can't hold the ball for 20 seconds and then start your offense if the defense doesn't let you.

Hey, I agree. Difference is...Notre Dame runs their burn offense by design, while we run ours because of ineptitude.

Shabazz has had his opportunity to lead this season, and it just hasn't worked out. The one kid on this team who can be a leader is Boatright. The only way it will work is for the other guys to let go of their egos and allow him to run the team. We've seen great teams hand the keys to the jet over to a freshman point guard before, no reason it can't happen in our case.

 

[willie99]

Don't hate the player, hate the game...Brey plays within its parameters. We sucked but hopefully learned from this for the tournament (assuming we make it).

it's all about learning