I believe Antonio Anderson was asked this question during a radio interview either last year or the year before. His answer was when you run a full court press without a enforcer to protect the rim it's hard to run ask the time.

This team lacks that big man who will clean shots up if the press is broken

(02-17-2014 09:49 PM)cmt Wrote:  

(02-17-2014 09:36 PM)stoby Wrote:  40 minutes of hell will not work anymore with the new rules. Mike Anderson is struggling now. Nolan's teams would hand check the hell out of us, but we would get a foul called when we did it to them. We lost a game because of it. I don't remember which one of our guards late in a close game with them got hand checked hard may be even causing a TO, and when he did it to them was called for a foul. It was the difference in the game. It was a while back and I don't remember the details.

Chris Garner on Corey Beck, we were up by one, he hit both free throws, Wimmer missed a shot at the buzzer to lose, it was a good look though. Now days, they won't call anything at the end of the clock unless its Witherspoon trying to get a rebound.

Thanks for the conformation. You have a good memory. I was so pissed when that happened.

(02-17-2014 10:02 PM)tigers0830 Wrote:  I believe Antonio Anderson was asked this question during a radio interview either last year or the year before. His answer was when you run a full court press without a enforcer to protect the rim it's hard to run ask the time.

This team lacks that big man who will clean shots up if the press is broken

We could have an enforcer, if he would stop cussing. jk.

(02-17-2014 05:34 PM)MTigerBlue Wrote:  

(02-17-2014 03:44 PM)MemphisCanes Wrote:  Scrapped after the first OSU game. Where have you been?

Changed your mind, huh?

http://csnbbs.com/thread-666067-post-101...id10147685

Please keep up.

(02-17-2014 04:34 PM)MemphisCanes Wrote:  

(02-17-2014 04:30 PM)TigerFan386 Wrote:  Defense has actually been pretty good the past month, other than the SMU game. Defense was even pretty good the last game vs UConn, held them under 40%, just got called for too many fouls and Napier made some crazy, unguardable shots. I prefer solid half court defense to the full court press, because our press got broken way too often. Shaq is also becoming something of a rim protector, he's had a lot of blocks lately.

We play each of our guards almost 30 mpg, so there's not a lot of gas in the tank to go hard on offense and then turn around and press full court every possession.

Yeah, we need a real solution @ 3 then use our guards on a 2 & 2 rotation so they don't play for such long stretches, as they do get gassed; get in foul trouble ; etc etc..

Shaq is also logging a lot of minutes; fortunately he's been able to avoid dumb fouls, but if he gets in foul trouble in a big game, because of our lack of preparation,Where do we go?

(02-17-2014 10:02 PM)tigers0830 Wrote:  I believe Antonio Anderson was asked this question during a radio interview either last year or the year before. His answer was when you run a full court press without a enforcer to protect the rim it's hard to run ask the time.

This team lacks that big man who will clean shots up if the press is broken

A slight adjustment: we lack the big man who will clean up shots and make them pay for taking them if necessary.

(02-17-2014 04:51 PM)cmt Wrote:  Josh, and no one on his staff obviously, is a good press coach. We have the guards but we got no containment and very poor decision making and very few turnovers while running the press. We have the guards to do it, but would need to play King, Iverson and Wilson a whole lot more. Woodson and Nichols are fast enough and Pellom is not 100%.

A good press, like Finch ran often, can really rattle the other team, but a bad press just gives them easy baskets. We were doing that a lot. I remember Perry and Gibson pressed Baylor to start the second half in the NCAAs and Baylor spent several minutes without even getting across the half court line.

Previous posters are also correct that if all your guards are always on the court, they can't press effectively anyway. You have to go all out for the press to be effective. We are running though, every chance we get, and that has been improving all season. Some of the fast breaks against UCONN were amazing and not necessarily off of turnovers, just rebounding, etc. You could tell UCONN was really tired midway through the second half, they're used to milking the clock down every possession.

Well said.