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The team seems to be playing very hard and playing good defense. We are awful on offense. Are we adopting the Mike Davis strategy - strong defense and sloth's pace of play??

(12-04-2019 11:08 AM)The Answer UAB Wrote:  The team seems to be playing very hard and playing good defense. We are awful on offense. Are we adopting the Mike Davis strategy - strong defense and sloth's pace of play??

On the ESPN broadcast, one of the commentators said HCE wants us to play like Virginia, which is essentially the Davis school of basketball.

(12-04-2019 03:43 PM)jthrashr Wrote:  

(12-04-2019 11:08 AM)The Answer UAB Wrote:  The team seems to be playing very hard and playing good defense. We are awful on offense. Are we adopting the Mike Davis strategy - strong defense and sloth's pace of play??

On the ESPN broadcast, one of the commentators said HCE wants us to play like Virginia, which is essentially the Davis school of basketball.

Totally fine with that, but playing like Virginia means you can't let a guy go 6 of 8 from three against you.

(12-03-2019 10:12 PM)jthrashr Wrote:  We have decent enough shooters on this team. I’d go so far as to say it’s probably the most we’ve had in a several seasons.

We just don’t have offensive sets designed to generate open three point shots. There’s a reason Nate Darling doubled his three point attempts this year at Delaware. A high percentage of our made three pointers are out of the normal flow of offense.

For whatever reason, our emphasis is to get the ball to the post.

I don't understand this philosophy at our level. The college game is now dominated by guard play, especially at the mid-major level. Unless you're a blue blood, chances are you aren't going to get a dominant post player so why design your offense around this? I could understand that strategy when we had Cokely, but we aren't going to have many players like him. What makes mid-majors successful is 3 or 4 guard sets where each guy is a 3 point threat.