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Post by bmartin on Mar 13, 2016 11:10:02 GMT -5
I think of DSR the way I think of Austin Freeman. Outstanding offensive players who limited the defense and style of play options. Great when they score 20+ but trouble when their shots didn't fall.
MCI's point about DSR, Peak, and Copeland not being on in the same game is a good one. I would say it is because they really never played off each other. When one had the ball the other two usually stood on the perimeter and watched, but when they did flash or cut or rotate they rarely got a pass anyway. DSR and Ike occasionally had good assist numbers but usually from driving into a dead end and then giving up the ball, not from an intentional draw and dish/kick move.
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Post by bmartin on Mar 13, 2016 0:10:48 GMT -5
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Post by bmartin on Mar 10, 2016 11:18:45 GMT -5
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Post by bmartin on Jan 29, 2016 9:32:12 GMT -5
Their KenPom rating is because their offense is really not that good. Dunn and Bentil carry the team and have good stats, but Providence as a team is shooting only 30% from three, and has had 8 games when they have scored less than one point per possession, including 4 of their last six conference games. Georgetown has had six such games total and only two in conference. Their strength is defending well without fouling.
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Post by bmartin on Jan 25, 2016 17:41:34 GMT -5
JTIII learned coaching from his dad and Pete Carril. They did not script plays for specific possessions. JT Jr liked to put the ball in the hands of his star playmaker and expect him to make a play. Carril liked to put the ball in the hands of his triple-threat center/forward and expect him to read the defense to shoot, drive, or draw the double-team and pass to the open cutter or spot up shooter. So JTIII's hybrid style has worked very well with Jeff Green or Otto Porter as the playmaker reading the defense, and it should have worked with Monroe if the guards had given him the ball. The problem with this year's team is that there really is no player who has to be double-teamed. No matter what system you run or what plays you call, the most important element at the end of a close game is having a player that the other team can't guard.
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Post by bmartin on Jan 25, 2016 17:21:07 GMT -5
The 08-09 team was a bad defensive team and despite the consistency of Monroe was largely dependent on threes. The roster looks great because everyone thinks of their offense and not their defense.
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Post by bmartin on Jan 17, 2016 18:15:40 GMT -5
What was all of your conclusions when this was discussed ad nauseum - we continue to underachieve compared to how much we fund this? No. That the budget ranking is absurd because our Verizon rent is included in the basketball budget while every big spender with its own arena has the arena costs in a separate budget.
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Post by bmartin on Jan 16, 2016 18:05:39 GMT -5
We have guardable players and they guarded them.
This game was very encouraging because we played good defense. This is the first loss of the season that is on the offense rather than the defense.
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Post by bmartin on Jan 8, 2016 15:17:29 GMT -5
Two honest questions and I am sure this has been discussed before... What is the logic with the zone defense out of an inbound on the baseline? Beyond the obvious of just giving the other team a new wrinkle, I just don't get it. Maybe at one time it surprised some teams, but any scouting by the opponent would eliminate that at this point, it's clearly not based on the current status of the game or flow since we do it every single time. It almost feels like a gimmick at this point to me. Anyone? Second, why do we seem to struggle so poorly on inbounding, especially on the offensive end? It's almost maddening and seems like it should be simple scheme they could improve on. I remember a couple of years ago we seemed to have a very effective inbound play that started with a screen at the top of the key and having someone cut down the lane and it lead to several easy buckets, which this team could desperately use. Shouldn't this be a simple fix? I am not blaming JT3 or players, not asking for that, I just don't get it. These are 2 areas that drive me nuts each game... Getting a layup when inbounding under your own basket against man-to-man is literally the easiest play in basketball. All it takes is one screen and either the cutter or the screener will have a layup. We got those screen & cut layups when opponents were stupid enough to play straight man when we inbounded under our basket.
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Post by bmartin on Jan 4, 2016 0:31:54 GMT -5
Plenty of people will read it. Plenty may not. But I sincerely hope it's not because they can't read 700 words. It's not about the word count friend. SF's post is appreciated because so many simple-minded anti-III posters said we stopped scoring because the coach had them hold the ball to the end of the shot clock, and SF disproved that contention possession by possession. What I don't want to read are your dozen or so posts in this thread saying the same thing over and over. Brevity is not brevity if you don't shut up at some point.
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Post by bmartin on Dec 21, 2015 10:53:45 GMT -5
One stat really separates the wins from the losses: Opponents effective FG%: Duke 55.8 UNC Asheville 54.5Maryland 54.2 Monmouth 52.0 Radford 50.2 Syracuse 43.6 UNC Wilmington 42.3 Maryland Eastern Shore 41.0 Wisconsin 35.7 Bryant 35.0 Brown 30.7 Edited to add UNC Asheville
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Post by bmartin on Dec 21, 2015 10:46:35 GMT -5
One thing that turns mediocre defensive teams into horrible defensive teams is when players lose confidence in their teammates and start overhelping, overhedging, overswitching, overreaching, and hunting for blocks and steals instead of staying within their roles in solid team defense. Hustle and intensity do not solve the problem if players are mostly chasing the ball.
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Post by bmartin on Dec 17, 2015 11:34:25 GMT -5
The loss to Monmouth was no shock. Let's face it, they are a good team that exposed our weaknesses and we have to fix them in a hurry. Monmouth is the type of team that the NCAA committee always schedules for us [ie., FGCU]. The areas where Georgetown is weak is no secret to better teams who scout us. With the shot clock down to 30 seconds, our slow "Princeton" offense just doesn't get it done. By the time we go to shoot the ball, their defense is set and we end up throwing bricks. Last night we lost twelve points on poor free throw shooting. Our size did not help us with rebounding, especially defensive rebounding. We forced turnovers but couldn't hold on to the ball. Very sloppy. We picked it up in the second half, but JT111 showed no urgency during one particular time out with 15 minutes left in the second half. That is no way to get your team going, finals week or not. No excuses. There is raw talent there and it's early in the season, but JT111 must light a fire under this team NOW. Georgetown has not run the Princeton offense in at least three years. The average offensive possession is 16.8 seconds, just below the Division I average of 17.0.
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Post by bmartin on Dec 17, 2015 0:43:43 GMT -5
One stat really separates the wins from the losses:
Opponents effective FG%:
Duke 55.8 Maryland 54.2 Monmouth 52.0 Radford 50.2
Syracuse 43.6 UNC Wilmington 42.3 Maryland Eastern Shore 41.0 Wisconsin 35.7 Bryant 35.0 Brown 30.7
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Post by bmartin on Dec 16, 2015 16:18:52 GMT -5
Georgetown is not very small and not as Catholic anymore. You can't play the "small school" card when the school is larger than all but two Big East schools and has the 11th largest basketball budget in Division I. We have the 11th largest basketball budget in D1? Can you provide a link for that? Not calling you out, but that seems quite dubious. That stat is very distorted by paying Verizon Center rent on the basketball budget rather than having a big on-campus arena with its own budget.
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Post by bmartin on Dec 14, 2015 14:33:21 GMT -5
The two main problems are that we do not have an established, reliable defensive lineup and do not have a reliable late-game ball-handling lineup.
Late in games, coaches want to sub offense/defense at stoppages to get a few extra possessions with specialty match-ups in their favor. The 2008 team was JTIII's best use of offense/defense, with Ewing Jr and Rivers coming in for Freeman and Wallace on a defensive possession and then back to the shooters when we had the ball.
This team does not have an established defend & rebound lineup so we are not getting stops consistently, and when he has gone to three guards to handle pressure, they have been making bad decisions.
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Post by bmartin on Dec 14, 2015 14:17:29 GMT -5
This was not a run with no stoppages. It was the opposite. It was a bunch of free throws. You don't need to call time out to substitute or to talk to your players or to settle them down when every other possession has foul shots.
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Post by bmartin on Dec 12, 2015 23:07:51 GMT -5
At the end of the 3rd quarter, Otto Porter has a career high 26 points at Dallas. Otto ended with 28 points, 6 rebounds, 3 assists, 7/10 on 2s, 4/8 on 3s, 2/2 ft. Wizards almost blew a big lead, giving up a 13-0 run late in the 4th quarter without Otto getting a field goal attempt.
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Post by bmartin on Dec 12, 2015 22:48:26 GMT -5
Greg Monroe with 28 & 11 to lead the Bucks putting the first loss on the Warriors.
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Post by bmartin on Dec 12, 2015 22:44:11 GMT -5
Rockets 126, Lakers 97 25:13 with Roy Hibbert in the game: Lakers +6 64-58 22:47 without Hibbert in the game: Lakers -35 33-68
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