Why do you hate white so much?? White has been one of our primary colors forever! I can’t believe all the random love navy blue gets on these boards, and for what reason? It’s just a secondary backup color, and it’s boring!! I saw a ranking of colors online and navy blue came in like 12th. White is a proven commodity.
yes, if I had a big guard with post skills being guarded by Jacob I'd have posted him up every single time down the floor.
Not many guards with post up skills. Villanova is the only team that really does it. It would take most teams out of their offense, which is why people don’t do it. But we may see Dji post a few times here and there within the offense, but I’d imagine his size advantage is used more on drives and getting paint touches rather than posting up frequently.
Yet, in 5 years, pretty much no team out there decided to do that. And, the many years before that when we had smaller guards. Your get doubled, find the open guy strategy sounds good on paper, but it is just not that automatic. There is a defense out there trying to stop you, and they would have their strategy as well. Just keep in mind it could often be a good thing and a win for the defense if an opposing guard is spending a lot of time down low instead being a threat from 3. That, combined with what 23 said, is why you just don't see a lot of guards posting up. It's just not as easy to score out of it as you say. Otherwise, we would see it happen a whole lot more. I know Villanova was one of the few teams that has posted up guards at least a little bit, but they also had multiple special guards who could do this, which made it harder for the defense. I can't think of other teams, and I am not ready to confuse us with Villanova anytime soon.
Yeah pretty spot on and is only reason I really said he works on it and we can take advantage in mismatches here or there, not that Dji was going wave off guys and go post every possession 😂 I think him and JayNel best assets will to be to get those paint touches and drives to create.
When we played match up zone, we ended up in those situations way too much. For that reason I think forced
David Gonzalvez, by the end of his career, was adept at posting up and we ran it as a designed pattern to get it to him. So we have done it with success, within Mooney's offense, with a 6-4 guard.
not to mention Jacob weighed like 150.
I’d rather see some Powder Blue and 70s red text before another Navy alternate.
Every team had the right personnel by your logic. If he was 6’1 he should have posted Gilly, Blake, KA, K0, and SDJ by your logic. But it doesn’t happen because it takes teams out of their offense, and it would be teaching them post moves instead of shooting, one on one moves, etc which are probably more likely to happen.
We posted Nick for two years and had some success but he was also 240 pounds and had posted up since Saint Christopher. And even that wasn’t even an every other game occurrence.
Exactly. Every coach we faced the last 5 years isn't a terrible coach who for some reason did not post up Jacob. Like I said earlier, it would often be a win for the defense if you brought a guard down low a lot, especially one that is a threat from 3. I know if I were coaching against that style, I would say thank you, keep at it.
I agree, which I why I originally replied by saying Dji doesn't compare to Nick. Hopefully, you won't get hammered for this opinion like I did. But, yes, I have also said if we go to it a few times and it makes us better, I am all for it.
a D1 bigger sized PG guard should have post skills. and he probably has at least 6" and 40 lbs on Gilly. in some cases more.
So, every coach we have played against the last 5+ years knows nothing about basketball? And, now you are saying bring the PG down low? Again, if I am coaching against that, thank you because I would love it if your PG spent even a minute not being a PG.
So what do you think the reason was that it didn’t happen? Just curious. Because as I just stated we have had sub 6’0 guards for a decade now.
No, T, I'm not always looking for an argument, but right as things were settling down a bit, thanks for feeling the need to pile on after being away for a week.
I think that sentence sums it up. “If the opportunity presents itself”
our PGs spend a lot of the game not as a PG. I can't remember the last time we had a ball dominant PG. the times our PG breaks someone down and creates a shot from his initial pass are really rare. our first pass just starts the motion.
a lot of teams have smallish PGs. bigger than ours have been, but maybe not sustantially.
Not only that, but we haven't had a shot blocker since Garrett, also a decade.....and teams still didn't do it.
Well, our PGs are still PGs though, guys who can get the ball late and make a play, or shoot a 3. And, Jacob broke the assist record so I think he was being a PG more than you think.
we'll never agree and that's ok. I believe a big D1 guard should dominate Jacob on the block. and if you help, that's good for me too. we freaked out whenever Jacob was forced on a switch to a bigger guy in the matchup zone. we had to change the defense.
6-10 inches? Geez, but anyway, if I were a college guard, no, I probably wouldn't dominate a smaller opponent down low because 99% of guards just don't do that, so I am not about to say I am or was all that. Also, why assume the guy that much shorter would always be on me? Why can't the defense mix it up and put other guys on me? We can disagree, but you really don't have an answer for why teams just don't do this. You can't say there was never a big height advantage for teams out there because there often is. I know you don't mean to, but you are basically criticizing every college coach out there with this opinion.
That didn’t happen often. The match up got exposed by the lack of physicality and being stuck with a big on a guard… We rarely ever saw Gilly or SDJ get stuck on a big in the match up! I’d imagine mooney switched from the match up bc of the lack of wins. Offensively there was enough scoring, but not enough defense.
Do you know what a match up zone is? Why would we have our guards down low in a match up zone? Taller players didn't post up our smaller guards then because our smaller guards were up top playing the perimeter.
Yes....vaguely. As to the rest of your post, it is revisionist history. It happened frequently most games.
I’m sorry but you’re wrong.
There were plenty of games where we had our guards mismatched defending forwards. This was a reasonably common occurrence and one of the known issues with the matchup zone.
Agree and CM would have never thought to change till teams were figuring out how to get us in those bad
