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<blockquote data-quote="YlJacket" data-source="post: 498865" data-attributes="member: 2784"><p>I don't necessarily want to see more "bad" shots but I take your point we have to shoot more to stretch the floor. Right now we are running a 4 out set trying to get good spacing (which we generally have to start) and then looking primarily for a drive and dish initiation of the offense. This works pretty well if you are Duke or KY with superior athletes who can take folks off the dribble. It is a staple of high end AAU teams who have superior players and want to minimize double teams. We don't have those athletes. I like Alvarado and Devoe but they are not guys who can come down court and routinely beat good P5 players off the dribble. Note our performance at UT and again last night - especially in the first half. </p><p></p><p>So at half CJP put in that really high 3 man weave to try to get an offense initiated. That did force some movement and did create some minimal driving lanes. So at that level good, but at the other levels it destroyed any spacing in the offense and took everyone off the 3 point line - but it also didn't create a "lot" of space so most of the drives were head down hard as I can go drives to contested layups/floaters. Alvarado made some really hard, contested layups but didn't have anything remotely close to easy. I don't remember a kickout to a shooter off that weave. Alston did have a couple of times he could have kicked but he was so head down he couldn't have seen a shooter 2 feet from him. </p><p></p><p>Basketball is about getting "easy" baskets - not necessarily layups but good open shots. Even UVA - for all the crap their pace of play gets them - is really good at getting their shooters relatively open "easy" shots. But they have an approach to movement and screens that the players understand and execute. Everyone is really good at their roles from Salt who screens like a brick wall to the shooters Guy and Jerome. We don't get anything easy. I hate to say it but this year the offense looks a lot like Hewitt's CTO. Not a lot of movement and a requirement for the PG or someone to finally drive to the hoop to start something. It was an early form of "positionless" basketball. </p><p></p><p>Going forward, we have to accept that we don't have the athletes/players to simply put them in space and expect they can make a play on their own. We are not Duke. We are a lot more like UVA or Michigan or one of several teams with good to great players who run different variations on somewhat structured motion offenses to initiate an offense and get "easy" shots in the flow of an offense. And a lot of these should be 3's. That is the game today. There are a ton of ways to do it from modified Princeton to whatever. But underneath it all is a recognition that we have to help these younguns get legit shots this year - especially if we want the next wave of recruits to see themselves being successful at GT and in this offense.</p><p></p><p>Rant off <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite44" alt=":banghead:" title="Bang Head :banghead:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":banghead:" /> <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite6" alt=":cool:" title="Cool :cool:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":cool:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="YlJacket, post: 498865, member: 2784"] I don't necessarily want to see more "bad" shots but I take your point we have to shoot more to stretch the floor. Right now we are running a 4 out set trying to get good spacing (which we generally have to start) and then looking primarily for a drive and dish initiation of the offense. This works pretty well if you are Duke or KY with superior athletes who can take folks off the dribble. It is a staple of high end AAU teams who have superior players and want to minimize double teams. We don't have those athletes. I like Alvarado and Devoe but they are not guys who can come down court and routinely beat good P5 players off the dribble. Note our performance at UT and again last night - especially in the first half. So at half CJP put in that really high 3 man weave to try to get an offense initiated. That did force some movement and did create some minimal driving lanes. So at that level good, but at the other levels it destroyed any spacing in the offense and took everyone off the 3 point line - but it also didn't create a "lot" of space so most of the drives were head down hard as I can go drives to contested layups/floaters. Alvarado made some really hard, contested layups but didn't have anything remotely close to easy. I don't remember a kickout to a shooter off that weave. Alston did have a couple of times he could have kicked but he was so head down he couldn't have seen a shooter 2 feet from him. Basketball is about getting "easy" baskets - not necessarily layups but good open shots. Even UVA - for all the crap their pace of play gets them - is really good at getting their shooters relatively open "easy" shots. But they have an approach to movement and screens that the players understand and execute. Everyone is really good at their roles from Salt who screens like a brick wall to the shooters Guy and Jerome. We don't get anything easy. I hate to say it but this year the offense looks a lot like Hewitt's CTO. Not a lot of movement and a requirement for the PG or someone to finally drive to the hoop to start something. It was an early form of "positionless" basketball. Going forward, we have to accept that we don't have the athletes/players to simply put them in space and expect they can make a play on their own. We are not Duke. We are a lot more like UVA or Michigan or one of several teams with good to great players who run different variations on somewhat structured motion offenses to initiate an offense and get "easy" shots in the flow of an offense. And a lot of these should be 3's. That is the game today. There are a ton of ways to do it from modified Princeton to whatever. But underneath it all is a recognition that we have to help these younguns get legit shots this year - especially if we want the next wave of recruits to see themselves being successful at GT and in this offense. Rant off :banghead: :cool: [/QUOTE]
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