Accusing people of being defensive and getting their feelings hurt while simultaneously getting defensive and having your feelings hurt. Classic.
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Yea that made no sense whatsoever. But letâs move on⌠Another game to argue about
If the team was better at being defensive none of us would have such hurt feelings.
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I still love you, passive-aggressive or not 
. There, letâs see if that ends this cycle. Weâre on the same team fellas, or at least rooting for the same team.
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Haha I got no dog in this fight. I just love sharing this tweet whenever I can
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Get your memes in while this thread is still open!
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Anyone watching Gonzaga and Bama? Gonzaga is currently 6th in KenPom defensive efficiency and a top 10 AP team, and Bama is destroying them on high ball screens. Theyâre also using primarily drop coverage. They tried a soft hedge once, and that didnât work either.
Anyone seen a team defend ball screens really well without blitzing or hard hedging? Theyâre so hard to defend now, particularly since officials let bigs get away with murder when setting screens.
I supposed hard hedging is a possibility, but that would take our shot blockers away from the rim.
@Cuts_from_The_Corner thoughts?
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Ball screens are one of the hardest actions to guard on the court.
With a hard hedge, you have to make sure everyone knows the rotations, and youâre basically in scramble mode.
With drop coverage, you have to pray the ball handler isnât a shooter and most are in this day and age. Our bigs arenât the quickest, so this is the best option for now.
Switching on screens is the best option in my opinion, but it creates mismatches, and you need positions 1â5 to be pretty athletic. Executing switches well is extremely difficult and takes a lot of practice and toughness.
Trapping ball screens isnât smart, because one pass out gives the offense the advantage.
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I would try switching with the personnel we have. The opposite is not working at all and is setting us up for foul trouble as well.
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Hedge and plug
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I donât think either of our bigs can handle guard switches. You need diakite and Gill type players for that
Odom is not spending Thanksgiving installing a new defense. Thatâs a panic move. Besides, the trouble with our defense is not the scheme. Itâs the execution. A few minor tweaks wonât make it great (or even good, honestly, given our roster), but if he can just reduce the fouls a bit, thatâs enough.
Odom has one more tune-up game before he faces Texas in his first game in a hostile environment against high-level competition. He needs to focus on offensive shot selection, discipline, and ball movement so he can generate better looks. He canât waste time trying to install a new defense in the next week.
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Ryan Dunn still has eligibility left
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I donât like switching here because we need Johann and Ugo to provide all of the rim protection and theyâll get dragged away from the rim on switches.
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I think this is right. Get guards in right position, reduce dumb mistakes off ball, and coach them on better decisions around screens. That would be enough for a big boost.
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I saw TDR do an ok job on it in the second half. Would agree we donât want the bigs checking a PG up top. Maybe it is a different look for a few series? I think Odom will need to mix in zone as well. I realize we only have so much practice time and we need to teach 10 players (vs. 7-8).
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No idea why anyone thinks it has to be all one way in D - thatâs a recipe to get cooked.
Switch it up to keep the opponent guessingâŚ. Some zone, some actual full court traps, some going under l, some switching âŚ. I like it when teams switch whoâs guarding the screener before the screen is set so a switch isnât as much of a mismatch⌠like if a team loves the high screen with the five man and doesnât post up much⌠then put another guard on him to start the possession and just switch⌠we did that a ton and it just gummed up the opponents offense to the point where they started trying to post up their bigs to exploit the size mismatch but we could just bring the big down to double if needed etc - bigs are way worse passers than guards.
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Im not suggesting implementing a new defensive scheme entirely, just speculating about ball screen defense specifically. Iâm not sold on picking up full court either, but if that is an issue, itâs secondary to ball screen defense right now.
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