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I think the problem at LB is the guard passes to the post past the 3 point line and then gets a hand off from the screen. The problem is the other 3 LB players stand without any motion or cutting and stare at the point guard dribbling shot clock away. That will never work. Charles Barkley once said "If you are not moving without the ball... you aren't playing basketball". 
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Did anyone see Xavier last night? Very much a heavy handoff offense up top, but it was always probing, trying to get a double team to commit, the offball guys flashing high then back cutting hard. Screener either popping high after the screen or rolling hard to hoop. Purpose with all their actions.
This has been the problem I've seen with both Acker and Monson's offenses. It seems our guys are trying to execute movements instead of flowing from opportunity to opportunity.
I don't know if it's a coaching or personnel issue, but when you watched Xavier moving the ball, I felt they had a chance against Texas who probably has two (maybe 3) NBA guys on their roster. Texas went hero ball down the stretch, a lot of NBA style isolation. Their guard Johnson, projected lottery pick, took a couple of really tough looks down the stretch. Reminded me a bit of Casper, as he clearly has the raw athleticism and mentality to get buckets, maybe took a few he didn't need to. Xavier kept working for solid looks, and eventually started connecting. High level game all around.
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I didn't watch the SDSU game last night, but in the past I remember them having a lot of offensive movement, very athletic high motor guys, bigs with some skills on offense, but mostly the high energy defense coupled with length and athleticism lots of havoc.
Hope Acker isn't to set in his ways for offense...defense looked ok enough that it might work well with better parts. Previous Message
I guess I hadn't ever paid a lot of attention to SDSU's offensive scheme, util last night. But there it was, a point guard dribbling around at the top of the key now and then getting a big man screen and looking for the roll or a shot. Typically (like us), nothing developed so late in the shot clock the point guard started scrambling to find a shot, usually resulting in something forced and low percentage. This is exactly what Acker is running! I don't know how SDSU has been successful in the past, they just must have had really good players. Yikes! Previous Message
Anyone watching this? SDSU looks just like us! No surprise on the offensive scheme. They are getting killed so far.
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