Sidenote: Salvador da Bahia is 3 just so you know
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BH is 3 in metro area population. I know because itās the reason I came. I wanted to go to the biggest city in Brazil that wasnāt SP or RJ. I searched metro area instead of city-limits population because I didnāt care where they drew the lines. I cared how many people were in the cityās ambit.
BH just under 6 million metro area. Salvador 8th by this metric. Iām not a big Salvador fan but Bahia is amazing both for the beaches (north and south of Salvador) and Chapada Diamantina for hiking.
Just landed in Rio but I have to take 5-6 hour blablacar (intercity ride share) home. My flight from Rio to Belo Horizonte was yesterday on a separate ticket that I lost with my one day delay. I didnāt want to pay the last minute price for a new flight. Italy isnāt over until Iām in my apartment!
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Chapada is amazing and Lencois had a really good basketball team/ athletes when I played there. State of Bahia just amazing. Culture is great and diverse depending what part you are in. Salvador can be tricky for sure but once you know it is awesome. There is a manor festival almost weekly celebrating different things
Sao Paulo grew on me over the years. Couldnt stand it at first but got to know it better traveling there for work etc Is also incredibly expensive (Xs 2 of NYC at the higher end) as is Rio. Rio is cool for like 3 days but has to be sunny or is terrible ha
Need to get to BH at some point
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Dollar has strengthened a lot against the real in the last decade, so prices have come down.
Got home this afternoon after a strange, erotic journey from Milan to Minsk, er Belo Horizonte. (Rochelle, Rochelle!) Italy trip is, sadly, over for me.
Pass your Brazil tips to Coach Zay. He said he wants to come down here during Fall Reading Days. I told him for just a few days I thought Rio was the clear choice.
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Good heads up I will this weekend. Headed down Thursday
Sorry, way late as weāve had a wonderful long day in Milan, so Iām just catching up.
Two things from the article:
Tony said āweāre doing some different things.ā 
Wait a minute, they took the bus from Rapallo to Malpensa!!?? Did we get footage!?
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You could see some interesting stuff in those practice clips from Orange Bassano. Seems to have ball screen / five out concepts. @hoopsandhoos did a bit of a breakdown of it up in the thread.
Here you go:
So itās tough to say exactly what it is, since it has elements of various sets weāve run. Maybe I am misremembering but I think @rushdacote noted more ball screen.
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Heās going to start the 4 first years + BVP and then have last years starting 5 come off the bench as the second unit
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Yeah, we definitely saw a little, but as has been noted once or twice, not much. But Tony saying that out loud seems to give more weight to the expectation that we have for a more dynamic offense with the four and five out sets
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My 2 units:
10 minutes each half:
Reece
McKneely
Bond/Dunn - each gets 5min
BVP
Shedrick
And
Clark/Reece ā each gets 5 of the 10 min in this segment
Franklin
Murray
Gardner
Traudt
Tony really wanted to run the five-out with Hauser and Murphy, but itās a complicated offense that relies on cohesiveness, and the COVID restrictions really hampered his ability to install the offense. So he wound up trying it for a few games, and then abandoning it. Last yearās team obviously did not have the personnel to run it. This yearās team should.
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I would like someone to explain the 5 out to me
Iām sure there are people here who know it better than I do. Hereās my limited understanding: Itās a positionless offense where all five players are on the perimeter. Like mover-blocker, itās a read-and-react offense thatās heavy on screening and cutting. Which means that, also like mover-blocker, everyone has to be on the same page ā so itās not the ideal system to install when you have a lot of new players and you hardly able to practice together.
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Highly recommend all of Jordan Sperberās stuff. Itās great for tuned in fans who arenāt in coaching circles.
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Itās something we might try for a few games before reverting to sides.
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Recently listened to Isiah Thomas talk about how Indiana had no plays during his time under Bobby Knight. Plays make you predictable, he said. Coach Knight I believe was one of the originators of motion offense. Has to be similar is my guess, but assume 5 out no one is posting up ever unless his name is Kihei Clark
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In 5-out Kihei sets screens for Caffaro to curl around and shoot 3s
Itās called 5-out because the 5 (typically a traditional center) is outside of the paint and taking logo jumpers
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Genius. Get Papi further away from the basket sounds like a great move ha
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Wait till I tell you about the 5-Bench offense
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Moose imma be in Cville this weekend. You proly owe me a beera or 6 for some reason
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