Offensive sets

[march madness]

Unfortunately we only have one offensive set that produces with any regularity. It is the double high post. With both posts at the freethrow line and Devoe goes right or left with that player screening then rolling to the hoop. The other post comes to the top of the guy to get the pass from Devoe and tries to feed it down low from there. Ohio St. tall guards were able to shadow and stop most of this play. We need other plays.

Having Iverson come out past the three point line to pick Devoe's defender is a bad play. Having Iverson leave the paint for any reason isnt smart, he hurts us out there and he hurts the other team when he is down low. One reason they do this is that other that Iverson and Hoff, no one else can set a good pick. They need a better weight program in the offseason.

The other play I see run is for one of our shooters: HOff, Devoe, or Westy to start under the basket and run to the top of the key, through our two bigs settting picks. Most teams over play this and our bigs don't roll to the basket. I'm not sure if they don't have confidence they'll get the ball, or if they are told to stay with the play. It hasn't worked in any game I've seen recently.

 

[gopherphan]

what i love, and what they seem to get away from, is the sampson-iverson high low with sampson high to shoot a J if iverson is too well covered, xavier doesnt seem too tall so i think we can pull this off. have joseph westy and hoff way out on the arc to keep the defenses honest and let the big boys carry us home

 

[march madness]

That is our best play. Actually Xavier has an athletic 6'10" McLean they will have on Sampson, and a 6'9" 265 beast that will be on Iverson..so they actually match up well in that regard. The other option might be to have DJ in the post over a 6'5" or smaller player that will be guarding him.