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Post by Werebeaver on Nov 14, 2021 20:25:56 GMT -8
Emily's cut to the hoop and finish?
or Kennedy's spot-on pass?
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Post by believeinthebeavs on Nov 14, 2021 20:38:51 GMT -8
We really missed Kennedy last year.
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Post by jimbob on Nov 15, 2021 2:53:32 GMT -8
They made it look like a designed play!.....maybe it was?
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Post by TheGlove on Nov 15, 2021 10:45:14 GMT -8
They made it look like a designed play!.....maybe it was? It was designed...a long time ago, it's part of Basketball 101. |
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Post by wbosh15 on Nov 15, 2021 10:50:47 GMT -8
They made it look like a designed play!.....maybe it was? It was designed...a long time ago, it's part of Basketball 101. What's going on there for people that don't know, that action was Kennedy dribbling into what's called a "Dribble Hand Off". Emily was designed to curl off off Kennedy and take the ball, then KB basically picks Emily's defender. However, both players are to read that Emily's defender is over-playing on the high side, and trying to disrupt that dribble hand-off from taking place. Emily plants a cuts back door, and KB is able to make the pass for the layup. Perfect, fundamental basketball. I'm sure lots of folks here know this, but wanted to spell that out for anyone who didn't. |
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Post by beaverstever on Nov 15, 2021 11:21:59 GMT -8
They both did really well.
- KB's pass was placed and timed really well. Helps when it looks like she had 8" on her defender
- Emily led and then forced her defender into deciding and committing to go over the top of the screen, which was possible because she's a respected shooter. Her timing was right when both defender's in the area were badly positioned, so a lot of game smarts went into how it all went. Emily's role in it all is probably harder, and certainly will be when both defenders play that much better than what we saw here. Sure is nice though to have players that actually know how to effectively utilize a screen, which includes how to use them when they don't actually use the screen itself.
Who I didn't think played it well was Jones. Her defender moved to help on Emily (too late) and Jones was then slow to move into the gap at the basket. If Jone's defender had been quicker on her help defense, Emily would have had a tougher shot and Jones would have been the best option to score. I'd like to see Jones move quicker to the basket and seal out the help defenders at the basket than just raise her hand.
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Post by 411500 on Nov 15, 2021 11:45:32 GMT -8
One of the disadvantages of the backdoor cut from the wing is that the player to who receives the pass often dribbles smack into the defensive centre who already has pretty good position.
As great as the backdoor cut looks when executed properly, it often ends in disaster at the hoop if the dribbler gets rejected, or throws the ball away in the tight jam created in the low post.
For these reasons it's not unusual to see some teams go weeks at a time without executing it perfectly. Some teams NEVER do.
For example, in the Stanford-Texas game, Texas defenders played jersey to jersey and fought (banged) thru screens the entire game, and I don't think Stanford executed a single backdoor cut against that muscular pressure....
I'm reaching a bit here, but the backdoor pass in basketball is somewhat akin to the squeeze bunt in baseball. It looks fantastic, and fairly simple, when it is properly executed, but its proper execution is really tough, and its degree of difficulty is why it's so rarely executed.
Not a completely fair analogy - but it's in the ballpark - so so speak...
GO BEAVS!!
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Post by lotrader on Nov 15, 2021 14:34:04 GMT -8
UCONN WBB utilizes the backdoor especially now that Paige B. is on their team. Ralph Miller's great team's from the late 70's & early 80's perfected the backdoor. And OSU Baseball still delivers on the bunt (not necessarily the squeeze) very effectively. The backdoor is still in the WCBB game, and love it when I see it executed.
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