Opponent Offenses

[astonmartin708]

Just saw a really interesting breakdown of the Brad Underwood (Illinois) spread offense with side discussions on Mike Boynton (OK. State) and Dana Altman (Oregon) who both run it a ton. I thought the most interesting part of the video is when they get into a discussion about Altman's opinion on the necessity for the adoption of a ball screen offense to be paired with the spread offense for recruiting purposes. (Kids want to play ball screen so they can prepare for the NBA)

I also found it interesting that one of the inefficiencies of the spread in college is that it flows into the pinch-post (triangle) made famous by Tex Winter and Phil Jackson. That can lead to a lot of inefficient midrange shots being taken late in the shot clock. I think I'm going to go back and look at the Illinois vs. Loyola NCAA matchup and see how Loyola was able to completely dominate it.

I know this is a bit in the weeds for this board... but I'd like a discussion other than how much our coach does or does not suck.

 

[I.I.]

We can also get into the timing and use of a full court zone press or run and jump man press like Memphis uses. ( The only thing I like about Penny's coaching) The best use of this in the tournament so far that I saw was Arkansas vs Colgate when Arkansas had to go to the press against a weaker team and did it early when trailing instead of waiting until the last 2 minutes when hopelessly behind. The old adage " Press weaker teams but get back and use zone or junk defenses against much stronger teams" Syracuse is the master of using their zone against much better teams and Rick Majerus was the king of the triangle and two and box and one against much better individual players.

As far as your offenses aston, I would like to see some new ideas in the college ranks. I remember when the Flex offense of Hawaii would just kill us.

 

[astonmartin708]

We can also get into the timing and use of a full court zone press or run and jump man press like Memphis uses. ( The only thing I like about Penny's coaching) The best use of this in the tournament so far that I saw was Arkansas vs Colgate when Arkansas had to go to the press against a weaker team and did it early when trailing instead of waiting until the last 2 minutes when hopelessly behind. The old adage " Press weaker teams but get back and use zone or junk defenses against much stronger teams" Syracuse is the master of using their zone against much better teams and Rick Majerus was the king of the triangle and two and box and one against much better individual players.

As far as your offenses aston, I would like to see some new ideas in the college ranks. I remember when the Flex offense of Hawaii would just kill us.

The guy in the video I posted was actually some sort of assistant responsible for scouting on a NMSU team that went to the tournament a couple of years ago. He recently did a video on ORU's run in the tournament and what makes Abmus and Obanor so special, and why they had trouble against Arkansas earlier in the season. It was exactly what you said. They were picking Abmus up full court and making him fight long before he ever had his high ball pick and pop screens ever set by Obanor. That being said, ORU still had a 10 point lead at half against Arky early this season. It will be an interesting matchup.

I also watched one by him on Houston and how their post doubling and switching / doubling on screens has led to an awesome 3 point defense as they are quick and long enough to recover on tough skip passes. He had quite a bit of the UH vs. Memphis tape that included Memphis' offense getting mostly destroyed besides some broken coverages by UH on dribble handoffs.


I would love to see this type of coach breaking things down for out team as an assistant.