Oh awk
This is interesting on how you can send 5 to the glass on offense in a way that doesn’t blow up your defensive transition (current Charlotte HC):
Feels like the NBA is doing a lot of this too nowadays, especially how the “tag” turns right into fullcourt pressure.
Not sure if Odom has us set up this way this season, but there’s some conceptual similarities.
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This is a really cool find! There are definite similarities.
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I heard a stray mention of it on a recent Zach Lowe podcast about how NBA teams (Houston, Boston, San Antonio) crashing the glass from the “high side” to limit defensive transition problems, and that lead to the Tagging Up concept. Another good write-up here: How Paris Basketball Dominates Offensive Rebounding with Tagging Up - Transforming Basketball
It seems more of a defensive transition system than offensive rebounding system, but it has the helpful side benefit of making pretty much every defensive rebound chance much more contested.
Notably the last two Paris coaches are also current NBA HCs (Iisalo in Memphis, Splitter as interim in Portland).
I wonder if those leak outs I put in my piece were us just not being crisp on this yet. Seems possible.
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More about tagging up and offensive rebounding, this time originating from New Zealand. Something I wish Tony Bennett would’ve imported from that country.
Notably, could crashing the offensive boards actually help transition defense because the other team has to keep guys back to prevent offense rebounds?
“The misnomer of offensive rebounding negatively impacting transition defense, I think the data has caught up … where there isn’t a significant difference whether you crash two, three or four and the transition rate or the points per possession based on that,” Mazzulla said. “And so, I think that with all the analytics and the data going on, you’re seeing that there actually could be a positive correlation to that.”
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Can we pull this off with Grünloh?
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Man if you can embrace that little shit hole Cameron its a really fun place to play and the shots go in
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Why is this considered such a high level to get a dude isolated for a fade away mid-range jumper? It just feels like they drew a lot of arrows for the play to give the ball to Avdalas and everyone else just stand around well beyond the three-point line. Haha! Maybe I’m just dumb.
https://twitter.com/TheHoopHerald/status/2000252220046971244?s=20
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Pro-level bucket? Future lottery pick?
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I’m torn here. On the one hand, their ball movement was actually quite good.
On the other hand, I totally agree that was a lot of work to set up a contested mid-range fallaway jumper. I mean, its not like he was even especially open. His defender was right on him and there was a second defender like 2 steps away very ready to come help out.
Edit - When we play them, if their entire offense is this kind of “HIGH LEVEL action” then I’ll feel pretty good about our defense even if VT manages to hit some tough shots over them.
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It’s a great bucket but HIGH LEVEL ACTION is probably puffery.
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Also, while we don’t call travelling anymore, he clearly shuffles both feet before dribbling.
And before he does the waving to trigger the motion (or whatever the hell the analyst is praising) Avdalas is clearly saying “What the f*** are my teammates doing???” to himself or the closest Greek equivalent of that phrase.
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Is any legitimate draft analyst projecting him as a lottery pick?
Vecenie has him at 24, so a bit outside the lottery
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Good video from Sperber on drop coverage and some of the things that punish it (good mid-range shooting, pick & pop 3s, lob threats).
helps clarify why our defense struggled in certain games like Notre Dame and against certain players like Bruce Thornton
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Cool find! I love seeing breakdowns like this.
Haven’t had a chance to watch Jordan Sperber’s new video, but he did tweet out this screenshot.
https://twitter.com/hoopvision68/status/2029320930648871134?s=46&t=vkjgQUekzGC7z44tIfnIRQ
So Michigan for the natty, I guess?
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He said that May uses packline principles for part of his defensive scheme.
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I thought this demo of Luka’s offensive bag was really good by Jeremy Lin.
https://x.com/espnnba/status/2037646181115847030?s=46&t=KRUvpbKQ9s5_3BPeM0gClg
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