01-24-2020, 07:34 AM | #101 | |
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For those of you that don't follow Jordan Sperber on twitter, you should add him, great college hoops breakdowns. Yesterday he made a video of Dayton's offense and why it's so good this year. It's a great watch. Anthony Grant and John Brannen have been close for a long time and I think this is the sort of stuff we want to be running once Brannen gets all his guys. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT8o...ature=youtu.be The one thing I like that we're doing this year is the way we move Vogt around which allows him to get easy position down on the block. With Diarra growing as a player, watch that Dayton video and imagine what our offense could look like in 2 years with Diarra at the 5 and some of these guards/wings we already have (harvey/maw) and the ones we're bringing in. |
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01-24-2020, 07:38 AM | #102 | |
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01-24-2020, 07:48 AM | #103 | |
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I will take 8-10 pts and 8-10 rebounds from him. If he gets 16pts it should come in the flow of the game and not from volume jumpers. Many of his miscues are completely unnecessary. He would be much better on O by trying to do less. A lot of his points in the last couple of games came off dunks from good feeds etc. He just needs to keep moving without the ball so he can get more of that action. |
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01-24-2020, 07:58 AM | #104 |
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I'd agree that offense probably has an edge in championship games of the last 20 years. That's WAY different than "It's been proven that offense is more important in the tournament as long as you have a decent defense." Offense is not any more important in the first 5 rounds.
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01-24-2020, 08:00 AM | #105 | |
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Its the freshman mistakes he still makes that are just the worst. Like with 9 minutes left vs temple and us up by one. They trap Jarron before midcourt and he passes to tre. Instead of Tre holding the ball and resetting the offense, he dribbles into traffic and shoots a midrange jumper with 20 seconds left on the clock. Brannen just puts his head down and looks at the floor. Temple gets the easy board cause nobody was ready for him to shoot that and they're laying the ball in on the other end 7 seconds later. It's basically a live ball turnover. A 5th year sr should never do that. He's been taught not to do that. Why does he do that. And he does those things multiple times a game. Just stop doing those things. Last edited by cincrulz11; 01-24-2020 at 08:04 AM. |
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01-24-2020, 08:05 AM | #106 | |
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9 years is a fairly large sample size. |
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01-24-2020, 08:06 AM | #107 | |
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And I agree with that. Although I think as more teams start to play the nba style of 3's and paint shots offense it might start to lean more towards offense in all the rounds. Or the teams that figure out defense for that type of offense are really going to be tough to beat. |
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You rather quickly changed the goalposts: you started out saying "You can win with a defense in the top 30." 9 years of one teams NCAA tournament games is a very small sample size. The NCAA tournament is largely random, we see plenty of teams with top offenses and/or top defenses go down early every year. There are some things Cronin could have done better, but the NCAA tournament largely comes down to luck if you aren't an elite team (and there's still luck even if you are). If you aren't a top 4 seed, the first game is often pretty much a toss up. I think we can all agree that it's important to be excellent on both offense and defense. If you want to have a good shot at advancing deep in the NCAA tournament (and not counting on getting luck) you better be top 20 in both (and ideally top 10 in both). If you are elite (top 3) on one end you can get away with being a little worse on the other. |
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