observation/question

Donate To GopherHole
touchdownvikings

touchdownvikings

Well-known member
Joined
Nov 11, 2011
Messages
770
Reaction score
764
Points
93
I'll start off by saying I know almost nothing about basketball, despite watching faithfully for years. I love it, but I'm just not knowledgeable. With that said, my uneducated observation is that when Murphy penetrates, a second defender almost always comes over to "help." It seems like 50% of the time, the second defender is leaving Kanote to help on Murphy. Murphy then responds by passing back to Kanote who is wide open for what should be an easy basket. The problem is that Kanote often has trouble catching the pass, and the opportunity is squandered.

First, am I the only one that has noticed a ton of Murphy-to-Kanote passes off of penetration? Or am I crazy on this? Is this a planned part of the offense? It seems like it happens so often, it must be...?

Second, is there some sort of drill Kanote can do to work on catching the ball? Honestly, to my eyes, it seems like this would change a lot.
 

touchdownvikings said:
I'll start off by saying I know almost nothing about basketball, despite watching faithfully for years. I love it, but I'm just not knowledgeable. With that said, my uneducated observation is that when Murphy penetrates, a second defender almost always comes over to "help." It seems like 50% of the time, the second defender is leaving Kanote to help on Murphy. Murphy then responds by passing back to Kanote who is wide open for what should be an easy basket. The problem is that Kanote often has trouble catching the pass, and the opportunity is squandered.

First, am I the only one that has noticed a ton of Murphy-to-Kanote passes off of penetration? Or am I crazy on this? Is this a planned part of the offense? It seems like it happens so often, it must be...?

Second, is there some sort of drill Kanote can do to work on catching the ball? Honestly, to my eyes, it seems like this would change a lot.
Click to expand...

It's always part of the offense to pass to the open person. If anything I think Murphy needs to work on this more as the games I've seen when the 2nd guy comes to help he doesn't always do well finding the open player yet.

As for Konate get him one of those football launchers that fires footballs at WR's. He needs to spend an hour a day in front of one of those.
 

I've seen Murphy get trapped several times, too, so you're not alone on that observation. I've recently wondered if he sometimes decides against passing out of the trap because Kanote drops the ball so much - pure speculation on my part.

On a positive note with respect to Murphy - 7 defensive rebounds last game. Makes a huge difference. He needs to keep that up!
 

touchdownvikings said:
I've seen Murphy get trapped several times, too, so you're not alone on that observation. I've recently wondered if he sometimes decides against passing out of the trap because Kanote drops the ball so much - pure speculation on my part.

On a positive note with respect to Murphy - 7 defensive rebounds last game. Makes a huge difference. He needs to keep that up!
Click to expand...

Good thoughts.

I'm definitely not counting, but I think murph has been successfully trapped maybe 4 or 5 times since the big ten started. Part of being a freshman is being exploited on your tendencies. He will figure out what to do sooner or later.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
 

There is a definite lack of trust with Konate catching the ball, and its 100% justified. Our pick n rolls are guarded completely different because everyone knows that Bakary cannot catch anything other than a direct feed to his hands with his back to the hoop. Thats one of the reasons I'm most excited for Lynch, Pitino has been quoted saying "he catches everything" which will be fantastic.

Just think, we haven't had a big that can catch since Mbakwe, both Mo and to a lesser extent due to athleticism EE, struggled with receiving unconventional passes in traffic.
 


touchdownvikings said:
I'll start off by saying I know almost nothing about basketball, despite watching faithfully for years. I love it, but I'm just not knowledgeable. With that said, my uneducated observation is that when Murphy penetrates, a second defender almost always comes over to "help." It seems like 50% of the time, the second defender is leaving Kanote to help on Murphy. Murphy then responds by passing back to Kanote who is wide open for what should be an easy basket. The problem is that Kanote often has trouble catching the pass, and the opportunity is squandered.

First, am I the only one that has noticed a ton of Murphy-to-Kanote passes off of penetration? Or am I crazy on this? Is this a planned part of the offense? It seems like it happens so often, it must be...?

Second, is there some sort of drill Kanote can do to work on catching the ball? Honestly, to my eyes, it seems like this would change a lot.
Click to expand...

As Tim 1406 stated, Konate could benefit from some football pass catching drills and last year there was a photo of Pitino throwing the football to Konate. Obviously, he needs a lot more practice to develop the soft hands.
 

According to Pitino, he can do it in practice. If true, I think this is the reason he gets as much playing time as he does. If he can manage in practice there's nothing but game time to work out the adrenalin.
 

GopherPop said:
As Tim 1406 stated, Konate could benefit from some football pass catching drills and last year there was a photo of Pitino throwing the football to Konate. Obviously, he needs a lot more practice to develop the soft hands.
Click to expand...

In my experience that's a tennis ball drill. By yourself against a wall and also post entry with a tennis or progressively larger ball depending on starting skill.
 

Stick em, just don't use too much.

<img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CS3N_RwWwAAI3hJ.jpg">
 



Winasota Gopher said:
There is a definite lack of trust with Konate catching the ball, and its 100% justified. Our pick n rolls are guarded completely different because everyone knows that Bakary cannot catch anything other than a direct feed to his hands with his back to the hoop. Thats one of the reasons I'm most excited for Lynch, Pitino has been quoted saying "he catches everything" which will be fantastic.

Just think, we haven't had a big that can catch since Mbakwe, both Mo and to a lesser extent due to athleticism EE, struggled with receiving unconventional passes in traffic.
Click to expand...
Add Iverson to that list. Don't get me wrong, I really liked the big lug. He always gave 100 %, but his hands were terrible.
 

Have we discovered why Buggs keeps riding bench? There are times that I keep thinking he would be an upgrade over Konate....

Sent from my SM-N910V using Tapatalk
 

Ewert86PC said:
Have we discovered why Buggs keeps riding bench? There are times that I keep thinking he would be an upgrade over Konate.... Sent from my SM-N910V using Tapatalk
Click to expand...

IMO gets lost on D too often, makes foolish TOs too often and last game I thought he took some questionable shots. Obviously has size and athleticism. Might be about what's going on between the ears.
 




Agree with this idea. I thought they should put him against a wall and fire balls at him, if he doesn't catch one, fire two at a time, hard
 

You must log in or register to reply here.



Top Bottom