With all due respect to the coach, I think he's focusing on the wrong are.

[gibhunter]

He's focusing on running and speeding up the game. What he should be focusing on is screening and correct offensive execution. I like the lineup changes because they make us faster and more athletic, but we need to execute. Guys standing around and dribbling the ball until shot clock expires is what is losing us these games. Scoring 5 points through 12 minutes of the second half with 7 and 5 minute stretches of being scoreless is what is losing these games.

Guys are statues, not running sets, not screening or fighting through screens and tentative to take shots. If all he's focusing on is fast breaking and increasing the pace, UConn will leave GU with a loss.

 

[HuskyBballFan]

But if they can find a way to score more transition points, they won't even have to bother with the putrid half-court offense.

By the way, just because Calhoun said he's trying to speed up the game doesn't mean that they aren't working on half-court offense in practice.

 

[TopDog18]

Our half court offense is the problem, something that takes time to fix. We need to run, push the ball to get out in transition and score easy buckets. That's why in my opinion Boatright is the right answer to run the point right now.

 

[freescooter]

He's focusing on running and speeding up the game. What he should be focusing on is screening and correct offensive execution. I like the lineup changes because they make us faster and more athletic, but we need to execute. Guys standing around and dribbling the ball until shot clock expires is what is losing us these games. Scoring 5 points through 12 minutes of the second half with 7 and 5 minute stretches of being scoreless is what is losing these games.

Guys are statues, not running sets, not screening or fighting through screens and tentative to take shots. If all he's focusing on is fast breaking and increasing the pace, UConn will leave GU with a loss.

I get what your saying, but I'm not sure that these things are mutually exclusive. Sometimes changing the tempo can lead to changes in everything else. When you're moving more quickly you might be more inclined to do more without the ball, too. I'm not sure how or if this helps us with offensive rebounding, either which has been a problem.

 

[Palatine]

Walking up the court, starting the offense at 25 seconds, and getting off a bad shot at 5 seconds, is exactly the problem.

The offense needs rhythm and tempo.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Run, run, run! This team is build to run. Long, fast players who can score around the hoop and hit pull-ups and floaters. They should be pressing as much as they can as well, to ensure that the pace doesn't slow down. We should be scoring in the 70's and 80's every game.

 

[Chelo]

The problem also is the ability or confidence in our guards to pass the ball a post player in position and to pass the ball after a pick and roll. There have been countless of times that Tyler, AD and Roscoe set the high screen and then roll to the basket. They are open 95% of the time but not getting the ball! Alex also has to put the ball up rather then bouncing the rock once before the shot.

 

[SubbaBub]

Too many guys think that if they pass the ball, they won't get it back.

Poor post position? Swing the ball, re-post and try again. Drive blocked? Back out, swing the ball and try something else. Circle screens poorly set? Again, pass the ball and try the other side.

Wash, rinse, repeat. Do that for 20-25 seconds then take your best available shot. I guarantee you won't need to very often.

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[Prezidint]

Reading the title hurt my head.

 

[Wolferowski]

He's focusing on running and speeding up the game. What he should be focusing on is screening and correct offensive execution. I like the lineup changes because they make us faster and more athletic, but we need to execute. Guys standing around and dribbling the ball until shot clock expires is what is losing us these games. Scoring 5 points through 12 minutes of the second half with 7 and 5 minute stretches of being scoreless is what is losing these games.

Guys are statues, not running sets, not screening or fighting through screens and tentative to take shots. If all he's focusing on is fast breaking and increasing the pace, UConn will leave GU with a loss.

I think he would agree that we need to execute as well.

with all due respect, you aren't in the HOF and don't have 3 rings to boot.

 

[Marat]

H0w do they score more points? They need to get more shots.

How do they get more shots? Increase the tempo?

How do they increase the tempo?
1. Get a rebound, and run - try to create fastbreak opportunities ('99 team was great at this)
2. Don't wait too long in the shot clock
3. Don't hesitate to shoot - make decisions fast

Walking up the court, starting the offense at 25 seconds, and getting off a bad shot at 5 seconds, is exactly the problem.

The offense needs rhythm and tempo.

 

[21Huskies]

have you watched UConn basketball for the last, i dunno, 25 or so years?

our half court execution has always been brutal unless we had a guy who could attack to the hoop off the dribble and create his own shot. Its no knock on JC, he's an amazing coach, amazing motivator, amazing talent evaluator, amazing preparer... but half court sets has never been a strong point.

back in the day we used fast break points and defensive pressure to score and lateyl we've used superior talent in isolation situations and superior size to score points. we've won because we play amazing D, not because we are excelling offensively.

 

[DogMania]

But if they can find a way to score more transition points, they won't even have to bother with the putrid half-court offense.

By the way, just because Calhoun said he's trying to speed up the game doesn't mean that they aren't working on half-court offense in practice.

Agree. A little improvement on both will certainly help.

As long as they can generate more points in transition than they give up if they don't score and the ball goes the other way, then that's a good thing. They need to find ways to generate more easy baskets while they continue to try to improve their half-court execution.

As for that half-court Ex. teams often know how to take things away from what their opponents wants to do. To win in March, not to mention now , you have to be able to run an efficient half-court O. We're not where close to that.

Let's hope we see the same level of success on defense that we saw against ND, but a little improvement with our HC-O and simply some transition scoring, which has been vastly nonexistent most of the season.

 

[willie99]

I've learned to never worry about what JC is doing, just want him to keep doing whatever he's doing

 

[Gurleyman]

It depends on personnel. The Ray-Doron team ran great halfcourt sets. So did Rip-El-Amin (the following year without Rip, not so much). We ran a lot of great stuff - both inside and outside - with Emeka/Ben/Rashad because we had so many weapons. I think we led Alabama 54-27 at the half in the Elite Eight with only a couple fast break buckets (and two points from Emeka). Rashad and Ben were both lights out - and Taliek was having a field day choosing his weapons.

Of course, all of those teams had high lottery picks. There were other years (early in AJ's development, Albie as the go-to guy with Taliek as a freshman, Kemba-Dyson-Stanley all wanting to attack the rim, and this year) where we've gone clogged toilet. We've never been a Princeton type where the system can make guys better offensive players than their talent - we've needed the talent and then we evolved our offense around it effectively. And there were times even with the talent where we looked bad (the Ben-Emeka team had some clunkers when one or the other wasn't healthy, and could sometimes struggle with zones - PC, Syracuse).

I think historically the one thing that has prevented our offense from looking as good as some other programs is that we haven't recruited versatile passing big men. Our bigs block shots and hopefully develop post moves - they don't step out and shoot, and they don't act as "point forwards" or pass well out of the low block. As a result, we have never really wanted to run a lot of motion and cutting or use "four passes before a shot" rules, because we don't want to get the ball out of our guards hands for very long because they are the only playmakers/decision makers on the floor. Even something as simple as a high ball screen has limited options because the guy setting the screen isn't a weapon out there. We try the occasional high-low dump-down pass with our big men, but that has had limited success historically as well (Tyler is maybe as versatile a 4 as we've had since the Marshalls were our starting forwards, but he's been struggling with defending the post).

 

[gibhunter]

Reading the title hurt my head.

I tried to correct it (missing an a before the period) but you can only edit the posts, not the thread titles.

 

[Gurleyman]

I tried to correct it (missing an a before the period) but you can only edit the posts, not the thread titles.

I thought you were missing the 's' before the e, and were saying that he was putting the wrong arse on the bench.

 

[businesslawyer]

I tried to correct it (missing an a before the period) but you can only edit the posts, not the thread titles.

I would point out, however, that if you're going to try to get posters to take your view of the world instead of a HOF, 3-time National championship coach, to get us believe that you might know something he doesn't or have a view better than his, it would behoove you to not have a typo in your title. Just sayin ....

 

[jibsey]

H0w do they score more points? They need to get more shots.

How do they get more shots? Increase the tempo?

How do they increase the tempo?
1. Get a rebound, and run - try to create fastbreak opportunities ('99 team was great at this)
2. Don't wait too long in the shot clock
3. Don't hesitate to shoot - make decisions fast

I think you hit on something with "hesitation to shoot" because how many times do you see players pass up shots that are open for a second because maybe they fear getting pulled? Taking the shot as soon as it hits the hands is more in synch. Every time AO gets the ball he looks around, thinks about it, waits for an extra defender, then goes up for a brick. Catch, fake and shoot.

 

[gibhunter]

I would point out, however, that if you're going to try to get posters to take your view of the world instead of a HOF, 3-time National championship coach, to get us believe that you might know something he doesn't or have a view better than his, it would behoove you to not have a typo in your title. Just sayin ....

Point taken. I wonder if he's trying to say that we have a group that finds it difficult to grasp a concept of structured offensive execution. If I didn't know better I'd never believe that this group minus 1 player was able to win the national championship last year.

 

[CBallfan]

I've learned to never worry about what JC is doing, just want him to keep doing whatever he's doing

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