I’m clearly not on the staff…so what I think doesn’t amount to hill of beans. BUT I gotta say I agree with a lot of what you’re sayingI'd like to have seen kofi learn to move around without getting too far from the basket. I hate the post up in the middle of the lane with the entry from the top of the key. Hard pass, hard catch, clogged lane. If he went block to block more and sometimes set a back-pick for a cutter across the lane only to drift down to the short corner on the weak-side, they'd have a more open lane for driving, he'd be less beat up, and he'd get easy alley-oops and dump-offs for 4 footers and dunks. That only works though if everyone is moving. It has to be an actual motion offense.
They just didn't ever even try to run a motion offense with him in it. They settled for him just posting up from the second the ball crossed half court and occasionally doing pick and roll.
here…I’ve thought along similar lines
The 4 around 1 thing, with Kofi was a given with his size and abilities. No doubt, having an All-American post player is a good problem to have. Lol. But it created some problems too…(it could get stagnant, predictable, clogged)
Depending on the line-up, but more often than not…what we often got was:
guards at the slots…wings at free-throw line extended…Kofi standing and posting
Yes, indeed we’d try for a quick post or a post after a ball reversal…essentially throwing it around the horn. If that didn’t
work we usually went into the weave…
usually initiated with a DHO..(IMO this got got overplayed a lot…without us reading it
& simply going backdoor as much as we should have to keep the D honest.)
Then we’d usually look again for a post feed…maybe High-Low…depending on the
line-up…then if that didn’t work we’d usually roll into a high middle. or side pick
and roll toward the end of the possession.
Goes without saying, but you’d also get the same stuff stuff in the opposite order…Throw in some occasional stagger screen actions on the perimeter for Plum or Trent…and yeah that was pretty much our bread and butter.
I like the idea of having Kofi set back screens for cutters about 17-20 ft out and rolling him/having him dive back towards
the hoop. It does two things: it opens things up and gives a scoring option.
I don’t know why everything has to be
a ball screen….other than it’s because
that stuff filters down from the pros and that’s what recruits wanna hear that the coach is gonna put them in ball screen
actions.
I don’t abdicate movement for movement’s sake…but it was too much stand and space on the perimeter. IMO I would have liked to seen some more filling the vacuum
principle on the perimeter…could be just a shallow cut and replace…outside the predictability of the weave…
Even when someone would penetrate
our other perimeter guys weren’t very adept
at stepping into the gaps and spotting up.
I felt like that should have been a fairly easy
fix.
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