Attention Tod Kowalczyk

I am going to love watching this game. Great coaching and teamwork is maybe not as exciting for the casual fan as offensive fireworks but game in and game out tenacity on defense is more dependable

"Texas Tech plays an active, swarming, relentless half-court scheme, switching on almost every screen... The Red Raiders force players to drive to the baseline, and they always seem like they should be vulnerable to open 3s, but they are so quick and smart that they close out on shooters faster than anybody realizes."

"Virginia, meanwhile, has mastered basketball’s version of gap discipline in football. The Cavaliers rarely switch, but they have a habit of slowing the opponent’s offense to a crawl. Bennett’s pack-line defense is pretty straightforward, though like any scheme there are adjustments from game to game and within a game. Somebody pressures the ball-handler. Everybody else stays back inside an imaginary 16-foot arc until an opposing player gets the ball outside of it."

https://www.si.com/college-basketball/20...ett-culver

(04-08-2019 02:33 PM)Sleepy Wrote:  Attention Tod Kowalczyk

I am going to love watching this game. Great coaching and teamwork is maybe not as exciting for the casual fan as offensive fireworks but game in and game out tenacity on defense is more dependable

"Texas Tech plays an active, swarming, relentless half-court scheme, switching on almost every screen... The Red Raiders force players to drive to the baseline, and they always seem like they should be vulnerable to open 3s, but they are so quick and smart that they close out on shooters faster than anybody realizes."

"Virginia, meanwhile, has mastered basketball’s version of gap discipline in football. The Cavaliers rarely switch, but they have a habit of slowing the opponent’s offense to a crawl. Bennett’s pack-line defense is pretty straightforward, though like any scheme there are adjustments from game to game and within a game. Somebody pressures the ball-handler. Everybody else stays back inside an imaginary 16-foot arc until an opposing player gets the ball outside of it."

https://www.si.com/college-basketball/20...ett-culver

No reason next years UT defense shouldn't be better than this year. With a couple rim protectors and some length at the wings ball pressure and playing the passing lanes should be key.

Yes defense wins titles. Yes one and dones haven't been the way to win championships. Yes UB got screwed playing a 3 seed who reached the Championship game. No this game will not be fun to watch or intriguing for the casual bball fan.

(04-08-2019 03:37 PM)UofToledoFans Wrote:  Yes defense wins titles. Yes one and dones haven't been the way to win championships. Yes UB got screwed playing a 3 seed who reached the Championship game. No this game will not be fun to watch or intriguing for the casual bball fan.

Wow. I thought it was a great game.

(04-08-2019 03:37 PM)UofToledoFans Wrote:  Yes defense wins titles. Yes one and dones haven't been the way to win championships. Yes UB got screwed playing a 3 seed who reached the Championship game. No this game will not be fun to watch or intriguing for the casual bball fan.

really, where did you get that idea?