TjgtAg08 said:
Yeah, he's not going to stop. In fact, if he did, to me that would be a sign of him giving up on what he believes in, and that would be an awful thing for our program. That's not why we hired him.
The only thing I'd like to see is a little less of the full-team trapping press off made baskets. We don't have the athletes across the board to stay in front of the basketball, and too many times we end up with a bunch of guys trailing 70 feet from the basket and nobody back and able to stop the basketball.
If we did more of a "token press" with a guard or two, that would still slow down the offensive sets but also give our other 3 guys (the bigger, slower guys) a chance to get back and stop the basketball.
Too often we've seen Clemence or Agee trying to trap and then defend the full court, and they get blown by and we are disorganized allow easy layups.
That's going to happen regardless, but when we aren't shooting it well, we need to get stops. Feels like instead we double down on the full press, trying to get TOs, but instead give up even more easy baskets.
This.
The press isn't the problem. The problem is our guys have gotten lazy / out of position when trying to apply it. We are almost always flat footed when the inbounder catches the ball.