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(11-26-2017 12:53 PM)ODU BBALL Wrote:  

(11-26-2017 11:57 AM)EverRespect Wrote:  

(11-26-2017 11:53 AM)TheDancinMonarch Wrote:  

(11-26-2017 11:36 AM)ODU BBALL Wrote:  2). The other thing that bothered me is that when a team is beating you like a drum in some area offensively, why don't you change things up on them to give them a different look, to change the rhythm of their offensive sets? I thought the same thing last night that a few others have indicated on here about switching to a zone, or a full court press, or a half court trap even if it were just for a 3 or 4 minute stretch. Basically ODU remained in its man-to-man regardless of how many successful 3's W&M made.

You are discounting the "they can't keep doing that theory.

(11-26-2017 11:36 AM)ODU BBALL Wrote:  If a football team was making a living by running right up the middle again and again against you wouldn't you alter your defense to try to stop that? W&M scored about 50 points in the second half against us and we never adjusted defensively.

Ours wouldn't.

I think pressing a little would make sense, but you do not go zone on a 3pt shooting team. Those statistically bad contested 3s they were shooting would have been uncontested in a zone.

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Try selling that to Jim Boeheim who has played mostly zone for the past 40+ years. Besides, what was W&M going to do ... hit 100% instead of 90%? Not likely. Sure you can work the ball around to get an outside shot against a zone. A team can also extend the zone out further to push the shooters back a bit. As last night clearly showed, you can get plenty of good 3 point shots against a man-to-man too, especially when it is a helping man-to-man like ODU plays. W&M had several 3 point attempts where their player with the ball would cut off a screen at the top of the key and drive down the lane with a teammate set up at the 3 point line in each corner. When the ODU player on the ball side assigned to the corner 3 guy would collapse down to contest the layup, the W&M player with the ball would kick it out to him for a wide open look (and they pretty much made every one).

Boeheim's version of the zone is extremely complicated and takes years of experience to master. It isn't something you simply go to in the middle of the game. Also, Boeheim lives and dies by the zone and makes no adjustments. If we went to that, we'd be right where we started... losing without making adjustments on defense. Again, I think mixing in a little press is appropriate, particularly against athletically inferior teams that are shooting lights out, like W&M

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