Switching on defense

[boog204]

"Straight" man to man defense. Better?

I think the real difference is that it didn't allow Marquette to go around the screen and beat the defender to the basket. There was always someone there. It made Marquette take tougher shots. Or sometimes keep the ball on the outside.

Marquette got to the basket at will in the first half. They were literally in the lane every single play on an ISO. I think Ross made a big difference because Jones got stifled going to the hoop in the second half. And a big part of this is that Ross DIDN'T have to switch and could play through screens where some of our other guys were a mismatch.

I think the switching also worked with the bigs because Marquette is just terrible offensively. Gold and Joplin more or less just stand at the three point line all game.

 

[Iluvsuebird]

You all know that I love Nowell. However, against Marquette and out of necessity, we played with Ross at point, and we looked better than ok. I dont hate that future lineup with Ross at point and all the other sharp shooters.

 

[Stinger92860]

Reed in particular is pretty versatile on defense. His hips are quick--I think he could guard 3-5 most nights easily and 1-2 in a pinch.

IMO he has trouble getting back on the high hedge, otherwise I agree on his versatility

 

[husky429]

IMO he has trouble getting back on the high hedge, otherwise I agree on his versatility

Takes a very high IQ. And that's really his biggest struggle

 

[auror]

I noticed that too. Props to the staff for trying something different. Its good to switch things up throughout the game so that teams don't get used to successfully breaking down our D.

I wonder how much of this change was due to the matchup or just doing something differently since their attempt to get our perimeter players fighting over screens and not letting teams gain the edge and driving it right to the basket has been a problem all season long. It's probably a little bit of both.

I'm not sure switching gives up more perimeter scoring opportunities, but it does make a team vulnerable to adverse matchups.

I did post about this in one of the other threads. Sampson has the length and quickness to defend perimeter players for a short stint. He just needs to stay on his feet and not foul. Reed is nimble for a big dude and has okay lateral movement, but lacks the anticipation sometimes since this is new to him. Although not ideal to have our bigs on smalls, maybe it's better than only hedging all the time. And having our 1 through 3s and even 4s switching seems worth trying more often. It can't be worse than what we've been seeing all season long.

Don't get me wrong. They need to continue to improve their base M2M D, but switching it up with switching 1 through 4 and even with our 5 seems like a good approach to deploy especially if it works well at times.

I think a lot of it was matchup based. Marquette had shooters at the 4 and the 5, so switching helps to stay with popping bigs (dropping puts your big too far away, hedging puts you too far away).

 

[Hunt for 7]

I think a lot of it was matchup based. Marquette had shooters at the 4 and the 5, so switching helps to stay with popping bigs (dropping puts your big too far away, hedging puts you too far away).

Marquette may have shooters in fact we know they do but they are only shooting 32% from 3 in BE games this year. StJohns is last in 3 pt % in BE games shooting only 30%. Seems to me the way to beat each team is make them hoist a bunch of contested three’s but we kind of went against that approach with Marquette.

Found it interesting and wonder what we do with St Johns their leading scorer Luis Jr shoots less than 30% on threes. I think Ross could give him a lot of trouble if he stays on his feat when guarding him.

Looking forward to watching the game tonight Marquette @ St Johns. I cannot comment on what their team names were at one time. I found out it is not allowed so I will just say I disagree. I rooted big time for McGuires team. I play poker with his nephew in south Florida all the time. I liked both these teams names more before they were changed.

 

[jake14mw]

Your defense always looks better when the other team misses their open 3s.