Mike uses several different presses, most of which are used not to create turnovers but to speed up the tempo of the game and not allow teams who want to walk the ball up the court to do so.

Georgetown uses a press for the exact opposite reason, they want to slow you down in the back court, then three quarters court in an attempt to slow the tempo of the game down and reduce the amount of time left on the shot clock.

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Because no lack of point guard can explain why we can't run simple half-court sets

Because Mike runs an offensive not plays. That is like saying the only way to win in football is running the wishbone and not a prostyle or spread offense.

Before you try to counter with "Sets are better", look up what coaches run the motion offense verses sets than compare the amount of success.

The closest Pelphrey ever got to running an offense was a poorly taught flex.

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Posted by ocelot4ark

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Member since Oct 2009

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Posted on 1/29/14 at 1:09 pm to DaleDenton

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Mike uses several different presses, most of which are used not to create turnovers but to speed up the tempo of the game and not allow teams who want to walk the ball up the court to do so.

1) Then he needs to teach his guys not to foul. Because it looks like they're trying to force turnovers at least half the time. I know they do a soft press a lot, but the players are still trying to get steals and it's put us in bad situations with the bonus.

2) Why? Speeding up the tempo is great, but we can't really press the ball ourselves if we're constantly taking the ball out of the net after a double bonus free throw or uncontested corner 3.

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Because Mike runs an offensive not plays. That is like saying the only way to win in football is running the wishbone and not a prostyle or spread offense.

Which is why I've continuously espoused about the need to improve execution of the offense. Screens are pathetic. Meaningless dribbles on the perimeter slowing ball movement. Etc, etc. I've talked about our unwillingness to institute a basic back-door cut. I don't have a problem with the motion offense. I have a problem with Mike's installation of the offense and/or the team's execution of the offense.

And regardless of what offense you run, it's without a doubt IMPERATIVE that they have set plays coming out of timeouts in time-sensitive situations. Non-starter. You can't inbound the ball with 5 seconds left and hope to run the motion offense to get an open shot. No way, no how. Not consistently. Not if you want to be truly great. You have to have plays for those situations. Have to. I question whether or not we do because I can't think of us getting a clean look in any of those kinds of situations this year. But I'm getting old so I suppose my memory has failed or something so feel free to point me in the direction of some of those instances.