Men's Basketball

[Jordan91]

1 hour ago, harveycmd said:

While it's true there isn't as much off the ball movement and motion today (and this is not a positive development or change), every other college team doesn't run isolation with maybe a screen. The better offenses pass the ball around the perimeter looking to get open threes or drive into the lane if they can get a defensive player out of position. It's quite basic and boring, but they do it. Texas doesn't pass.

They had some really good ball movement in the first half against OU. It’s been a struggle since. 

[tylerlindsey2111]

44 minutes ago, Jordan91 said:

They had some really good ball movement in the first half against OU. It’s been a struggle since. 

While I agree more teams are foregoing the use of old school "continuity" base offenses, more teams are generally playing out of called concepts that are layered to provide triggers to create advantages in space for their best players (funny enough, a lot of these initial create actions have Princeton as a origin point). Alignment typically is the first call and decision in this, such as a horns look or a domino look or a traditional 5 out spacing. There are still teams running continuity; Auburn runs a version of the Flex, Gonzaga and Arizona are ball screen continuity, etc. But more teams are going with the UCONN model, or attempting to. 

Texas appears to be very limited in their creates, and lack execution in the simplest of these. Leads to a lot of stagnation, a ton of stationary dribbling (not to be confused with driving) and a lot of out of rhythm jump shots, or poor post ups.. (Onyema, anyone?) 

From an offensive philosophy perspective, in essentially year three, this philosophy gives me great concern when paired with style of player being sought by staff.

[syracusehorn]

This is the first year since 1990 that I haven't watched all the games. I just got tired of watching uninspiring performances. The talk of a tournament run seems bizarre to me. I have no idea how that could happen with only 5 or so conference wins, which is all I can see us getting. We had arguably the worst non-conference schedule in the country, and struggled to win those games.

[harveycmd]

10 hours ago, tylerlindsey2111 said:

While I agree more teams are foregoing the use of old school "continuity" base offenses, more teams are generally playing out of called concepts that are layered to provide triggers to create advantages in space for their best players (funny enough, a lot of these initial create actions have Princeton as a origin point). Alignment typically is the first call and decision in this, such as a horns look or a domino look or a traditional 5 out spacing. There are still teams running continuity; Auburn runs a version of the Flex, Gonzaga and Arizona are ball screen continuity, etc. But more teams are going with the UCONN model, or attempting to. 

Texas appears to be very limited in their creates, and lack execution in the simplest of these. Leads to a lot of stagnation, a ton of stationary dribbling (not to be confused with driving) and a lot of out of rhythm jump shots, or poor post ups.. (Onyema, anyone?) 

From an offensive philosophy perspective, in essentially year three, this philosophy gives me great concern when paired with style of player being sought by staff.

The Auburn offense is quite intriguing to me. It's by no means a thing of beauty, but they quickly reverse the ball from side to side, which creates open shots and opportunities to drive or enter the ball to the post. Bama does a good job of screening both on and off the ball. They don't reverse the ball nearly as much as Auburn, but they pass and dribble drive with a purpose that sets up good shots. Texas dribbles and stands. That's we we don't have an offense but other teams do.

Edited 10 hours ago by harveycmd

[tylerlindsey2111]

I wish there was a site that provided nuance and breakdown stuff for basketball the way that they do for football. I get that it appeals to a much wider market and it is the bell-cow, but would be fun to engage in meaningful, educated discourse around hoops that was more than "bring Beard back" or "set more screens".

[bierce]

3 hours ago, tylerlindsey2111 said:

I wish there was a site that provided nuance and breakdown stuff for basketball the way that they do for football. I get that it appeals to a much wider market and it is the bell-cow, but would be fun to engage in meaningful, educated discourse around hoops that was more than "bring Beard back" or "set more screens".

We should hope for the day HoopsCoach migrates here. 

[tylerlindsey2111]

@bierce I would be happy to do it and start the topics and answer questions people have. Just seems the fan base doesn't have the same deeper interest in the why, like they do in football.

Edited 1 hour ago by tylerlindsey2111

[bierce]

29 minutes ago, tylerlindsey2111 said:

@bierce I would be happy to do it and start the topics and answer questions people have. Just seems the fan base doesn't have the same deeper interest in the why, like they do in football.

Works for me.  I used to try to do a lot of that, but elder care eats up a lot of my time these days.  Besides, I'm mostly just a stathead who watches a lot of basketball and chimes in with my opinionated a**holery.