re: AU BBall Thread : Trainwrecked at 18-14

I'll take the w.

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A lot of times they're just flailing around the court, like a hybrid Street ball/college game.

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This is how it's been all season. No one moving away from the ball, just passing back and forth until someone drives. The difference is that he was a more capable scorer than most on the team. His rebounding had also been improving recently. He's a stretch 4 who can legitimately shoot the 3. We don't have another one of those on be team unless you slide Heron into that spot.

I think they said we've had atleast 7 newcomers in every year Bruce has been here. Y'all are going to need to realize that it's going to be ugly a lot of the time with turnover like that. Consistency will come.

I understand freshman are going to make many mistakes, but it just seems like structure is lacking. Am I wrong? There seems to be little adaptability in Pearl's offense specifically, almost like he intends to out talent teams.

I mean our goal is to use depth and pace to beat teams. It's not like we're going to run ton of half court sets when that's your goal. I do think Pearl is having a little trouble adapting to the pussification of CBB. The fouls grind the game down into a FT shooting contest. To be honest, I'm having trouble adjusting to watching it.

Kentucky is going to break our spirit I'm afraid. If we lose by less than 20 I will be impressed.

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but it just seems like structure is lacking.

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We sort of run the offense but run into issues both FR and skill set/ability to effectively run the O so it looks planned

So here is how the O tries to/should work

Basically the whole offense is built on reversing the court (passes between Harper & Purifoy) while setting off multiple ball screens to get easy inside buckets when defenders get lost tracking both ball and fighting screens/"fake screens"

During this time, we should run baseline off ball screens from Wiley for say Heron who should get a pass inside of open and if not Heron set a screen for say Dunans and repeat

From there we can run variations that can be incredibly productive for example two

-Use a downscreen on a screener to open him up on the elbow/3PT
-Pass in high post to 5 for give and go for a 1 or 2 immediately cutting


Even with today's game it should be incredibly effective

Why we suck at running our O

-We don't pass effectively even when set up right.

-Most cutters aren't strong enough to score inside and settle back to 3PT (Dunans/Brown/Lang) while Purifoy/Heron just aren't comfortable there I guess

-Harper isn't effective inside w/o ball

-Guys want to be heroes/impatient (Insert anyone)

I could see is going wins

2x LSU
1x Mizz
1x Bama
1x MSU
1x Tenn
2x (Ole Miss/Bama/UGA/TCU)
1x TAMU/UF/USCe/Ark


Give us 20 total wins

If we can pick up the following I think we are tournament bound if we don't lose any by 15+ not U.K.

@TCU
2x Either Bama/LSU
1x Either Bama/LSU
1x MSU
1x UTk
1x Mizz
1x @ either OleMiss/UGA
1x UF/TAMU/USCe/Arkansas

1x SECT

Well that ain't good