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Message: [QUOTE="Excalibur, post: 3385170, member: 62"] If you watch around college basketball there are plenty of teams that initiate their offense with a high-post flash from a big. It's what happens after the flash and hand-off that really matters. We ran the same offense vs. Xavier and Miami. Two bigs at the high post, two guards in the corners, and the point guard with the ball. The bigs can either receive a pass or start the offense with a high ball screen. The player who does not catch or screen sets a screen down for the guard/wing in the corner. The big who receives the pass (in most cases Carlton but sometimes Akok) will execute a hand-off either back to the point guard or to the player coming off the screen from the other big. At this point, Carlton has the option to either re-set the high ball screen or cut away, setting a down screen for the other guard/wing in the corner and then posting off of that screen. While the players are bunched at the beginning of the set, if executed properly better spacing develops after the initial high-post feed and hand-off. Even when executed properly, the sets take a long time to develop. By pressing, Cincy was able to delay us getting into our set, and we did nothing to force the issue or punish them for pressing. Looking at the offense in Charleston vs. against Cincinnati, there are a couple of major differences. The first is that the initial feed is taking place much further from the hoop. Vs. Miami, Carlton/Akok almost always caught the initial pass between the free throw line and the 3 point line. Now it is almost always 22 feet from the hoop. Part of that is more pressure being put on ball handlers, and part of it is the defense contesting the initial pass. The second issue is that Carlton, after handing off to the guard, is almost always opting to re-set the high ball screen as opposed to setting the screen to the corner and attempting to seal his defender after that screen. [/QUOTE]

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