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<blockquote data-quote="gt24" data-source="post: 782522" data-attributes="member: 538"><p>agree mostly and partially disagree. the second half offensive adjustment looked to me to be two-fold. first, VT was locked-in and well-prepared for our princeton point series. we were grinding for half court shots first half. by my count we ran princeton every possession first half except a small handful (3,4, or 5 maybe) of DDM possessions in Q2. i thought pastner switched offenses the second half because of how well VT was defending princeton. i also thought he wanted to get mike going with more "direct" touches second half and that was a secondary part of the plan/adjustment. we went roll/replace for almost the entire Q3 and many times in Q4. i have not seen us do that all season. most i have seen us run that set is maybe 3, 4, or 5 times in a row. and every time we have run it this year mike played the replace spot. against VT pastner moved him to the corner and then point with usher at the replace spot each time, where i have never seen him before. my guess is that was a two-fold decision: get mike more directly involved with more touches, and because of specific matchups with VT defenders. i'd be surprised if pastner planned to go most of the second half with that set. when it was working well, he stuck with it. and it kept working. if it aint broke, dont fix it. </p><p></p><p>all that said, i dont think any of it was based on the idea of mike running PG in our base offenses consistently. kyle is our post-alvarado future floor general PG, in my opinion. mike is not a PG, nor is he a CG. he is a SG. i thought early in the season one of our main offensive issues was that mike was playing/sharing too much PG and trying to initiate and create too much offense rather than playing off the ball as a true spot-up SG. he had a ton of turnovers when trying to share that PG role with jose and bubba, plus it reduced his # of quality looks on off-ball spot-ups. almost all of those turnover issues i observed from mike early season were when we were running princeton and DDM continuity offenses - so maybe mike is particularly effective running PG in set plays like the roll/replace vs VT?</p><p></p><p>a related thought: several posters have commented throughout the season that they wished we would run some sets/quick-hitters specifically to get mike going. i love our continuity stuff, but i agree that we should have a few quick hitters specifically designed for mike. the normal roll/replace with jose at PG, moses rolling, mike lifting/replacing seemed like exactly that and has been effective in small doses all year. but it always seems like jose or moses got the most shots on it, mike did not seem to get many TOK kickouts on it. the wrinkle/adjustment vs VT with mike at PG running that set might be a more direct way to help him? would love to see 1 or 2 other quick hitters designed for mike to get shots ATO. also would love to see a "spain" variation on our existing roll/replace set.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gt24, post: 782522, member: 538"] agree mostly and partially disagree. the second half offensive adjustment looked to me to be two-fold. first, VT was locked-in and well-prepared for our princeton point series. we were grinding for half court shots first half. by my count we ran princeton every possession first half except a small handful (3,4, or 5 maybe) of DDM possessions in Q2. i thought pastner switched offenses the second half because of how well VT was defending princeton. i also thought he wanted to get mike going with more "direct" touches second half and that was a secondary part of the plan/adjustment. we went roll/replace for almost the entire Q3 and many times in Q4. i have not seen us do that all season. most i have seen us run that set is maybe 3, 4, or 5 times in a row. and every time we have run it this year mike played the replace spot. against VT pastner moved him to the corner and then point with usher at the replace spot each time, where i have never seen him before. my guess is that was a two-fold decision: get mike more directly involved with more touches, and because of specific matchups with VT defenders. i'd be surprised if pastner planned to go most of the second half with that set. when it was working well, he stuck with it. and it kept working. if it aint broke, dont fix it. all that said, i dont think any of it was based on the idea of mike running PG in our base offenses consistently. kyle is our post-alvarado future floor general PG, in my opinion. mike is not a PG, nor is he a CG. he is a SG. i thought early in the season one of our main offensive issues was that mike was playing/sharing too much PG and trying to initiate and create too much offense rather than playing off the ball as a true spot-up SG. he had a ton of turnovers when trying to share that PG role with jose and bubba, plus it reduced his # of quality looks on off-ball spot-ups. almost all of those turnover issues i observed from mike early season were when we were running princeton and DDM continuity offenses - so maybe mike is particularly effective running PG in set plays like the roll/replace vs VT? a related thought: several posters have commented throughout the season that they wished we would run some sets/quick-hitters specifically to get mike going. i love our continuity stuff, but i agree that we should have a few quick hitters specifically designed for mike. the normal roll/replace with jose at PG, moses rolling, mike lifting/replacing seemed like exactly that and has been effective in small doses all year. but it always seems like jose or moses got the most shots on it, mike did not seem to get many TOK kickouts on it. the wrinkle/adjustment vs VT with mike at PG running that set might be a more direct way to help him? would love to see 1 or 2 other quick hitters designed for mike to get shots ATO. also would love to see a "spain" variation on our existing roll/replace set. [/QUOTE]
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