Post by HealyHoya on Apr 21, 2007 14:35:11 GMT -5
To be fair, Green didn't break his man down off the dribble to hit all his game-winning or clutch shots. Clearly, Green is able to create a shot more easily, or perhaps it is more accurate to say, more independently, than Hibbert, but I find it interesting to see/read how consistently people equate go-to guy with ball-handling guard/forward. There is/can be a correlation but it's not absolutely necessary.
Garnett in the post/turn-and-face, Duncan in the post/turn-and-face, Shaq shooting from the post/kicking out of double-team to teammate for open jumper, Ewing senior in his prime, Hakeem in his prime, David Robinson in his prime, Moses Malone in his prime, Abdul-Jabbar, Chamberlain...there are other examples at the NBA level of dominant big men with limited ball-handling skills successfully serving as the go-to guy, or the certer-piece on the last-second play/set.
Of course, Jordan, Iverson, Ray Allen, Carmelo, etc. are all examples of go-to guys that create off the dribble but in the case of the Georgetown Hoyas, our go-to guy, as it were, can absolutely be Hibbert playing within III's system.
Hibbert, dominating in the post, provides opponents the dilemma of D-ing him up one-on-one (how many players have the height/weight/skill to D-up Roy one-on-one next year? we win), fouling him and sending him to the line (most likely we win; Roy's certainly above average from the stripe), doubling him and leaving Wallace, Summers, Sapp, Ewing, Wright, Freeman...who do you leave open?!?!...they can all stick open 3's/deep 2's.
Essentially, III's system is our go-to guy. It has yet to be proved to me that a TEAM of talented, high-IQ players schooled in III's system are somehow less able to win a game on one last possession than, say, Scottie Reynolds. I don't buy it.
We didn't lose a single game this season on the last possession because we lacked a stud dribble-drive point guard. Wallace hit the biggest last-second shot of the year and didn't need a dribble. Green's shot against Vandy was nice post-work but certainly was not "breaking a guy down off the dribble".
This glass is half full, not half empty.
Garnett in the post/turn-and-face, Duncan in the post/turn-and-face, Shaq shooting from the post/kicking out of double-team to teammate for open jumper, Ewing senior in his prime, Hakeem in his prime, David Robinson in his prime, Moses Malone in his prime, Abdul-Jabbar, Chamberlain...there are other examples at the NBA level of dominant big men with limited ball-handling skills successfully serving as the go-to guy, or the certer-piece on the last-second play/set.
Of course, Jordan, Iverson, Ray Allen, Carmelo, etc. are all examples of go-to guys that create off the dribble but in the case of the Georgetown Hoyas, our go-to guy, as it were, can absolutely be Hibbert playing within III's system.
Hibbert, dominating in the post, provides opponents the dilemma of D-ing him up one-on-one (how many players have the height/weight/skill to D-up Roy one-on-one next year? we win), fouling him and sending him to the line (most likely we win; Roy's certainly above average from the stripe), doubling him and leaving Wallace, Summers, Sapp, Ewing, Wright, Freeman...who do you leave open?!?!...they can all stick open 3's/deep 2's.
Essentially, III's system is our go-to guy. It has yet to be proved to me that a TEAM of talented, high-IQ players schooled in III's system are somehow less able to win a game on one last possession than, say, Scottie Reynolds. I don't buy it.
We didn't lose a single game this season on the last possession because we lacked a stud dribble-drive point guard. Wallace hit the biggest last-second shot of the year and didn't need a dribble. Green's shot against Vandy was nice post-work but certainly was not "breaking a guy down off the dribble".
This glass is half full, not half empty.