re: Tide Hoops | Please Anchor

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If I'm not mistaken, we had to burn 2 timeouts Saturday because we couldn't get the ball inbounds. JD always inbounds when he's in the game. Most of the time he struggles to find an open man. Calling timeouts in that situation is as good as a turnover to me.

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Have you noticed how players nearly walk through the inbounds play, and rarely use a screen set for them properly(quickly). It's mind blowing each time they do it.

Does Florida lock up a bid with a win over A&M?

Would A&M lock up a bid win wins over Florida & Auburn?

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Also, when it comes to defense, there is one big issue that we don't talk about a ton (partly because it is a symptom of the stuff we do talk about) - we barely cause ANY turnovers. A lot of that is because physically we can't force anybody to do anything, especially opposing guards. But if you can't turn people over, it's gonna be REALLY hard to be an above average defense.

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Agree. That's also another point to add about of offensive system's success. We just don't get the benefit of many live ball turnovers leading to easy buckets the other way this year. We sure seems to give up a ton of them needlessly though.

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We would run ND off the floor IMO

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LOL we don't run anybody off the floor

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Have you noticed how players nearly walk through the inbounds play, and rarely use a screen set for them properly(quickly). It's mind blowing each time they do it.

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Yeah, it's out and out languid on some inbounds plays. No crisp movement and some players even starting before ref has handed ball to inbounding player so we're just all out of since when he gets it.

The drawn up inbounds plays themselves are generally good but execution is often non existent.

There's really a lot of nonchalance that creeps into our play (turnovers where we just lazily throw a perimeter pass like it's a practice drill without defenders being the worst).

Even more surprising given the amount of substitutions too.

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LOL we don't run anybody off the floor

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You gotta believe, George

The only thing that would surprise me is a Final 4 appearance. Everything else from not winning another game this year to making Elite 8 is on the table.

Those two matchups are about as good as we can hope for if being realistic. I'd feel more confident in a shoot-out against Purdue than I would be going against a school like Texas Tech's defense.

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If any season proves Oats system on offense is the way to go, this one has to be it. Basically all the things that should prove it doesn't work have happened and we still have an efficient offense.

Nobody is even close to our efficiency with a turnover rate around 20%.

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I get what you are saying and I agree for the most part but I sometimes wonder if that TO rate of 20% is also somewhat due to the system. I feel like our guys are so intent on playing fast that they get completely out of control and when they attack the lane they either charge or get in the air with nowhere to go with the ball. And if that is the case then is the offense really that efficient? I'm not sure what factors in to the offensive efficiency numbers but I would think TO's would have to be a component.

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I get what you are saying and I agree for the most part but I sometimes wonder if that TO rate of 20% is also somewhat due to the system. I feel like our guys are so intent on playing fast that they get completely out of control and when they attack the lane they either charge or get in the air with nowhere to go with the ball. And if that is the case then is the offense really that efficient? I'm not sure what factors in to the offensive efficiency numbers but I would think TO's would have to be a component.

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I think the system requires a steady hand at PG because of how many split second decisions you have to make. Remember Kira's first 10-15 games under Oats? He was turning it over at an astronomical rate. But then he seemed to get comfortable making reads quickly and the turnovers went way down.

I just think JD isn't close to ready to run a high level college offense, especially not one like this that relies on quick reads and decisions. And JQ comes and goes.

If you have a PG you trust I think the offense is pretty turnover neutral. If you don't, they are going to come in bunches.

Oats has had some really solid TO% teams and some horrid ones. His last 2 years at Buffalo with a trusted PG they were in the top 50 nationally in turnover rate. In his first 2 years they were #226 and #263. Last year we were average (#158).