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Students of the Game: Break Down Our Two Possessions to Win the Game

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I do not have the x's and o's knowledge to credibly critique basketball strategies and plays...my only credentials are having watched thousands of games during my lifetime...

it seemed to me that the outcomes of both chances to win were very low percentage shots...I'd appreciate those of you who are students of the game taking a look and commenting...

Go Spiders!
 
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The play should’ve been give the ball to Nescovic to drive towards the basket. To me this makes the most sense for several reasons. We were in double bonus free throws, Nescovic had an excellent game and was doing well driving in the paint and getting to the basket, it would’ve practically forced the refs to call a foul, and if he missed the shot Nescovic was perfect from the free throw line.
 
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My quick 2 cents

1. Tyne has to be more patient and the ball should be moving, not static. Nescovic also has to set a better screen.

2. B. Artis should not be on floor. 21/17 shooting splits. 28 points, 25 turnovers on the year. The play was a comedy of hot potato.

Honorable mention to Walz for barely contesting the URI game tying layup. When you’re coached softly you play softly.

Bottom line, which mimics the season: poor guard play, poor coaching, terrible defense.
 
first one - Dusan has to touch the ball there, Roche and AP are statues on that play - maybe have run some screens to free up #7? Also on that one, Walz puts his 7 foot defender in the perfect spot to contest a drive from a guard more than a foot smaller than him.

The second one wound up with a decent look from 3, just from the wrong player (the right one was sitting on the bench).
 
I think the play WAS to get the ball to Neskovic. he couldn't free himself. he should be able to.
I wanted Tyne to dribble towards him to give Dusan the option to come around the corner for a handoff.
Dusan HAD to be the call based on wht he'd been doing.
 
One thing I noticed was how easily Rhode Island exploited our switching defense tendencies to get Walz matched up with their guard so he could take him to the basket. That was way too easy. While on offense, Rhody took away our first option and pretty clear we didn't have a plan B other than Tyne trying to play hero ball.

Those clips show first hand the impact of good coaching/scouting versus Mooney. End of game situations are one of those times when the good coaches rise to the top. I don't consider Archie some coaching savant either but he easily took advantage of both our offense and defensive tendencies.
 
One thing I noticed was how easily Rhode Island exploited our switching defense tendencies to get Walz matched up with their guard so he could take him to the basket. That was way too easy. While on offense, Rhody took away our first option and pretty clear we didn't have a plan B other than Tyne trying to play hero ball.

Those clips show first hand the impact of good coaching/scouting versus Mooney. End of game situations are one of those times when the good coaches rise to the top. I don't consider Archie some coaching savant either but he easily took advantage of both our offense and defensive tendencies.
right all 2nd half this happened.
 


I do not have the x's and o's knowledge to credibly critique basketball strategies and plays...my only credentials are having watched thousands of games during my lifetime...

it seemed to me that the outcomes of both chances to win were very low percentage shots...I'd appreciate those of you who are students of the game taking a look and commenting...

Go Spiders!
So the problem on these possessions (and many many others) is that we are lost if/when we can't get the entry into the offense. In the Tyne dribbling example, you can see two players never ever move and we keep trying the ball screen and Dusan trying to free himself. The entry here is for the ball to go to Dusan and after that, I believe you'd see more movement etc. But they consistently denied that and Dusan simply isn't athletic enough to free himself against a superior defender etc. We need more action to get into our sets etc. rather than just keep trying the same entry off the high ball screen first one one side and then the other etc. Tyne finally recognizes he must do something different and drives but note that all our other guys simple stand still once he "breaks rank" so when he gets to the glass, no one has made themselves even remotely available to bail him out and he does the only thing he can do and tries to get one up!

Once in it, our offense has a decent amount of continuity to it (conceptually anyway) but our entries are actually very limited. We basically get away with that because the entries aren't in fact dangerous at all ( we generally enter the offense with passes 40 feet from the basket, often to a a guy either with his back to the basket or someone moving away from the basket on the catch). These are fine and normal entries into an offense but are not themselves dangerous etc. so nobody generally exerts much effort into denying us entry into our offense. But we were exposed here for the fact that we really don't know what to do if we can't get the entry into the offense and we don't have the players to get smoothly into it against athletic pressure denying that entry.
 
So the problem on these possessions (and many many others) is that we are lost if/when we can't get the entry into the offense. In the Tyne dribbling example, you can see two players never ever move and we keep trying the ball screen and Dusan trying to free himself. The entry here is for the ball to go to Dusan and after that, I believe you'd see more movement etc. But they consistently denied that and Dusan simply isn't athletic enough to free himself against a superior defender etc. We need more action to get into our sets etc. rather than just keep trying the same entry off the high ball screen first one one side and then the other etc. Tyne finally recognizes he must do something different and drives but note that all our other guys simple stand still once he "breaks rank" so when he gets to the glass, no one has made themselves even remotely available to bail him out and he does the only thing he can do and tries to get one up!

Once in it, our offense has a decent amount of continuity to it (conceptually anyway) but our entries are actually very limited. We basically get away with that because the entries aren't in fact dangerous at all ( we generally enter the offense with passes 40 feet from the basket, often to a a guy either with his back to the basket or someone moving away from the basket on the catch). These are fine and normal entries into an offense but are not themselves dangerous etc. so nobody generally exerts much effort into denying us entry into our offense. But we were exposed here for the fact that we really don't know what to do if we can't get the entry into the offense and we don't have the players to get smoothly into it against athletic pressure denying that entry.

Sounds like you have a better grasp on things than the coach, no joke.
 
my issue wasn't running out of timeouts, though I dislike the one's Mooney uses for no apparent reason after makes late in a game ... but I guess if you have something to say, you use one.

my issue as others have said remains that you can't take Dusan out that late in the game when he's been your go-to guy all 2nd half, and when you have no way other than a foul or an out of bounds to get him back in.
 
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