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[QUOTE="OkaForPrez, post: 4837699, member: 997"]
I’d like to see more attention paid to disruption of off ball cutting.  This is where good offense creates good shots.  And where the physicality in the Big East reward simplicity and therefore “dumbs down” the game.

Great basketball is when a series of great decisions (pass, dribble drive, shoot) stack on each other and create enough separation to get a good shot.  When you are executing that, and gaining an advantage, only to lose it because a cutter who has a step on their man is shucked by a defender reaching out and grabbing them to “fight through” a screen after being egregiously late, that’s a big deal.

What this leads to is iso dribble drive and nobody running an offense at all.

Which is further exacerbated by refs rewarding that behavior as well.  In our conference, getting downhill and body seeking without really any intent to score gets rewarded with two at the stripe.

When you disincentive running offense and incentivize the opposite, you’ve ruined the game.

That, stylistically, was the way alot of the games were called last year.

We play beautiful basketball under Hurley, when the officiating allows it.
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