In the last 3 minutes, we looked worse than a junior high team against the full court press - the simple answer is we didn’t have any motion without the ball.
Even when we were trying to delay the game in the half court in the last 3 minutes, we had no motion without the ball.
The players without the ball need to be moving constantly.
If they are standing around, no one will be able to get open, resulting in turnovers, and points off turnovers.
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We’d get the ball across the midcourt line and just stop the dribble. At that point, you can’t throw a pass behind you so you’re trapped. Need to fix it.
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We have had trouble all season with opponents’ press. Any type of press coverage… from full court, 3/4 court, traps/pressure in the half court once we get the ball over…you name it we have struggled all season. Luckily opponents don’t do it all game but I am not sure why they don’t do it more often than they do.
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They don’t do it all game because you can’t keep up that frenetic effort
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You don’t want to pass it to poor free throw shooters.
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Agreed, but passing it to a poor shooter is almost always better than turning it over. But really it’s that picked up dribble immediately after half court that kills us, like every time.
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yeah, the staying right at the half court line once in the front court , is a recipe for negative outcome more often than not and I am not sure why we do it most of the time. The half court line is not your friend.
We are reactive to opponents’s press most of the time instead of attacking it which you have to do to get yourself out of easy trapping situations.
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Several times the ball was passed to J’Wan at the top of the key.
He would immediately kick it back out.
Not sure why he didn’t try to drive and score at that point, at least once.
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Nolan Richardson’s Arkansas teams tried it with various degrees of success. But “40 minutes of hell” was their defense.
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I remember those guys. They were stout.
That was a half court trap that got us last night
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Kelvin has won 764 games.
I haven’t won a single game.
I am not going to give advice on this matter.
I am going to sit back and enjoy the show.
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Purdue’s key to Sweet 16 matchup against Houston: Purdue has to force more turnovers. Purdue beat Michigan 91-64 on Jan. 23 after forcing 22 turnovers for a rate of one on almost one-third of the Wolverines’ possessions. At the time, the Boilermakers were a defensive powerhouse that pressured teams into costly mistakes for 40 minutes (they ranked 15th in opponent turnover rate between Dec. 29 to Feb. 7, per BartTorvik.com).
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Nobody here is trying to take Kelvin’s job.
Kelvin is an expert on most things basketball, such as defense.
But as a human he will have a blind spot for a few things. That’s what we are trying to point out.
Everyone can improve. Even Kelvin believes that.
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Purdue and “defensive powerhouse” seems like a bit of an oxymoron to me…they allow more than 70 pts per game…
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I remember a few years ago when they would trap Harden all the time that Dantoni would put a player at the free throw line to break the trap and either get a 1 on 1 Post-Up Scenario or who could pass to an open three point shooter.
That is what they may do with Jwan Roberts, but in a final 2 minute situation it is risky because he’s not a good Free Throw Shooter.
He’s going to have to be quick with his passes if they go this route… which they may never lol
I am a little concerned that the team seems to let go of the rope at the end of games. It happened in the 3 early losses. And several others they managed to pull out the win. It’s one area they need to shore up.
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If you trust your “athletes”, you’ll just throw it over the press and go right to the hoop. When I played I inbounded. We’d just snowbird a small forward, hit him with a TD pass (just let it bounce in front of him as he moves) is all that’s required. Open layup. After 2 or 3cl times, no more press.
Or you can run screens with big men and forward types to isolate an open player across mid court.
We break it fine when we don’t cover up and try to wait for the foul call. I don’t know how many times it’s gonna take for the guys to realize we’re not getting those calls.
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Yes, starting with 2:45 left in the game after the UH timeout the Zags went to a 1-3-1 trap. I believe UH was up 9. the problem I had was UH did not try to score and tried to run clock. This resulted in a couple turnovers. To make it worse UH fouled 4 times the rest of the game putting the Zags on the line. It was a bad 3 minutes. But, UH got away with it because they played so hard and well for 37 minutes, including another great start to the game.
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