Or at least DM your coach’s contact info to TB haha.
Here’s 13 mins of their coach’s actions that you all obviously needed:
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Forcing Mack to can Murray and Dino was an all-timer of a blunder from Lville AD.
Murray because he is apparently a very good and well respected assistant (and his dad looks cool in the friends and family section)
And Dino because he got upset and did some blackmail.
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The Dino blackmail thing was wild…it very much felt like something he (Dino) really didn’t need to do but he panicked.
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Oh, and on this, what I think really separates these plays from more vanilla approaches is how well designed the second side actions/reads when the initial action is denied are. That’s what I see as the connection to the UConn offense; if something gets taken away, they flow right into an action that tries to take advantage of how the defense responds. It almost feels like they have you right where they want you once you start overplaying the initial action. And so even their late shot clock possessions feel like they come from finding an early advantage and patiently opening it up more and more until a great shot is available. Could definitely learn from that for our offense.
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Exactly. I’m not the big play diagraming expert that some on here are, but the big problem with B/M seems to be that the answer to an action being well defended is basically, “Run the action again and again and again and again until it works.”
I don’t think Virginia is totally lost in the woods, the offense just needs to be updated with more options and variations and counters.
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Yes. I’ve been thinking about this a lot. I’m also not a big X’s and O’s guy but this feels like the big failure of the coaches this year. Once “the book is out on us” if chapter 1 of that book is “do everything possible to deny imac” then we have to come up with a response that makes a defense pay for overplaying mckneeley. and that response should not be “have imac come off a screen and catch the ball inside the 3p line and take a long 2.”
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Yeah, I think it’s one part scheme design where they didn’t do a good job of weaponizing McKneely’s gravity, one part player execution where our guys seemed to readily surrender the advantage in a possession too quickly. Maybe that has do with how they teach offense, but I feel like I can count on my hands the number of times we had the defense late in rotation and then it was swing pass, swing pass, open shot. And I can count too many times where a guy came off a screen with some space and the defender scrambling but then just let the defense catch up instead of forcing them into rotation.
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