We had a pretty good D last year with the same players. I don't worry too much about them having that capability. What we didn't have last year were go to guys.
We have guarded terrible this year. If you would have been told at the beginning of the year our scoring average was were it is now everyone would have been thrilled.The funny part about our defense is hearing a color commentator on TV trying to describe what kind of defense it is. At times it looks like a matchup zone with a box and 1 mixed with a triangle and 2. It makes my head hurt watching it.
We have guarded terrible this year. If you would have been told at the beginning of the year our scoring average was were it is now everyone would have been thrilled.
Its really a number of things. Dribble penetration, late rotations, rebounding among a few. Theoretically with the same personnel and a shorter time to defend our defense should be better. why isn't it?? I'll tell you why the players need to get their heads out of their asses and is the coaches job to help them do that. defense is about effort and scheme. if Mick is running the same scheme with same team what is different???Problem boils down to and this might sound crazy but we are over rotating on defense. We are rotating before the ball or man even makes it to the point on the court where it's necessary. That makes it easier to attack because the holes are there earlier in the shot clock and can be attacked quickly.
You may be right but I got to tell you If you have to start teaching effort as a coach you may have recruited the wrong players. I used to say this to my kids who were all athletes, if I want it more then you we are in trouble.I think Mick lost a little of his fire when his health problem arose last season. The players feed off the coaches emotions and they just don't look like they wanna be out there at times. Defense is about effort and they just aren't giving enough of it.
then we would have a 10 man rotation that doesn't want to guard instead of 8.Biggest difference between this year and last is MICK!!! LD would've had balls to stick with 10 man rotation.
WH it will be just as hard to make a run without a defense stopper or a identity. Years past we had SK, Robles and JJ who could guard multiple positions. Go back and watch the rerun of the game and see how many times Ellis and Clark got caught in a switch and the smaller quicker player went around them for the score. watch how many times on the perimeter are guards went under the screen leaving wide open looks. Unless you plan to score 80 points against good teams I might add you will not be beating quality teams. We are scoring more and getting beat because we are not guarding or rebounding at the levels we have in the past.
Agree 100% but I think some of that is what type of defense Mick is playing. He needs to go back on straight man to man and I think some of that will fix itself.
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Problem boils down to and this might sound crazy but we are over rotating on defense. We are rotating before the ball or man even makes it to the point on the court where it's necessary. That makes it easier to attack because the holes are there earlier in the shot clock and can be attacked quickly.
I've been hoping for 40 minutes of nothing but man-to-man as well...even told myself it is the only thing missing for this group. Maybe it'd start to help guys take ownership of their defense...bc no one wants to look silly like Evans did on the wing yesterday. But if the effort and want to isn't there, it won't help.
Everyone keeps saying its the same team as last year. We should be able to guard.
Then why don't we????? We are scoring more. Why can't we guard anymore. Same D we ran last year. Is that coaching or Players not performing??? Did they forget???
They've played some straight man. It's been just as bad as the zone...
