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- Illinois
I was having flashbacks of the Winthrop game from last year. I'm glad we won.
5 TO's by your starting PG in 20 minutes with 2 coming down the stretch is not good.
Thanks, JFG. "Treadmill" was being thrown around in a bunch of different contexts. It was hard to follow.
And it's why I'm not really concerned about how close this game got. 5 TO's will be an outlier for Tejon by the end of the season. He takes care of the ball.
Also, BU got a little nonchalant at the end of the game. He took his last time out with about 3 minutes left and switched to a zone which we haven't really played at all. They hit a 3 and start their comeback, and we don't have any timeouts left. I think he tried to expirement a little and it almost came back to bite him.
Excellent points, JRich. I watched a DVR'ed version later, after I already knew the final score. It was hard to imagine how the game tightened when the Illini were up 16 with 3:42 to play!! Coach Underwood definitely got "nonchalant". The Illini offense didn't milk the clock; the offense stayed in an uptempo mode.
I believe BU thought the other team would concede and the game would just run out. Also, UT-Martin was in much better shape than the Illini (despite the "treadmill"). Martin's 3 best players played 40, 36, and 33 minutes and were running around at the end like madmen trying to get back in the game. Illini were gassed.
Really don’t see us doing a lot of running out the clock with 3 minutes to go this year. That got us into just as much trouble last year.
Big problem I saw at times was flooding the strong side of the floor. Spacing was terrible at times with all 5 players on the same half of the floor. No room to operate with everyone clustered together.
And it's why I'm not really concerned about how close this game got. 5 TO's will be an outlier for Tejon by the end of the season. He takes care of the ball.
Also, BU got a little nonchalant at the end of the game. He took his last time out with about 3 minutes left and switched to a zone which we haven't really played at all. They hit a 3 and start their comeback, and we don't have any timeouts left. I think he tried to expirement a little and it almost came back to bite him.
And it's why I'm not really concerned about how close this game got. 5 TO's will be an outlier for Tejon by the end of the season. He takes care of the ball.
Also, BU got a little nonchalant at the end of the game. He took his last time out with about 3 minutes left and switched to a zone which we haven't really played at all. They hit a 3 and start their comeback, and we don't have any timeouts left. I think he tried to expirement a little and it almost came back to bite him.
We've won both of these games without hitting many threes. Also, does anyone else get the feeling we skipping open threes to try and get higher percentage shots? Not sure how I feel about that. Offensively we have a great combination of scoring that will only improve as more 3's start to fall.
Defense is where we will be a question mark the entire season.
Against the zone? An overload is also a common approach to beat a zone. Idea is to have more players on one side of the floor than the zone can naturally guard. In a basic overload you’re looking to fill the high and low post, the corner, the wing and the top of the key.
I think the biggest problem I saw was 2 guys flashing to the same spot. Easily correctable as they get more reps with each other. We also really need to hit some of those rhythm 3s we had too. Hit enough and teams get scared and come out of the zone.
Yes defensively we are going to struggle especially if we play the pressure style defense where we are picking up the opponents at half court or on the perimeter....this will expose our slowness...especially with our feet....we are slow in moving our feet and cutting off lanes to the hoop....I expect fouls will become a problem as we encounter better and quicker teams