Post by fridaynightlights on Feb 26, 2022 20:58:14 GMT -8
In another thread a poster asked for specific solutions to improving the team's performance.
SR has a conservative philosophy of basketball similar to the style Tony Bennett uses at Virginia, a deliberate half-court offense and a sagging person to person defense or what is also referred to as a Pac Line defense where the person with the ball is defended but everyone else sags off their person and plays help. Both SR and Bennett have proven you can win this way if you have the right players.
However, it is pretty much coaching 101 that when your down double digits in the 4th quarter you need to come out of this type of defense and start pressuring the ball and get into the passing lanes to try and force turnovers and tempo. Instead, SR sits back in either a sagging man or zone defense to the bitter end. I find this frustrating as a fan and if I was a player, I would find it even more frustrating. Although I am sure SR doesn't see it this way, imo it can send a message that you are conceding.
It is the equivalent in football of being down a couple of touchdowns late in the game and continuously running the ball between the tackles. Hopefully SR and his staff address this in their post season self-scout. Assuming they do one.
SR has a conservative philosophy of basketball similar to the style Tony Bennett uses at Virginia, a deliberate half-court offense and a sagging person to person defense or what is also referred to as a Pac Line defense where the person with the ball is defended but everyone else sags off their person and plays help. Both SR and Bennett have proven you can win this way if you have the right players.
However, it is pretty much coaching 101 that when your down double digits in the 4th quarter you need to come out of this type of defense and start pressuring the ball and get into the passing lanes to try and force turnovers and tempo. Instead, SR sits back in either a sagging man or zone defense to the bitter end. I find this frustrating as a fan and if I was a player, I would find it even more frustrating. Although I am sure SR doesn't see it this way, imo it can send a message that you are conceding.
It is the equivalent in football of being down a couple of touchdowns late in the game and continuously running the ball between the tackles. Hopefully SR and his staff address this in their post season self-scout. Assuming they do one.
