One of the things I was critical of the team, in the early season, was ball movement. I thought our guards did not do a good job of moving the ball. Well, I have seen us do better in the last couple games of moving the ball, even in losses. Now, I think we need to take more steps to get easier shots than we are getting, currently.
Where I work, our motto and goal is "Set our team and our clients up for success". We take that to heart in terms of what it takes and what is implied, and I think our business has done well with that conscience of thought. That is what we need to do to make baby steps for this team. We are still working way too hard to get good shots in this offense. Ball movement is an obvious one to fix but now we need PLAYER MOVEMENT to be better in our sets.
WHEN OFFENSES GO STAGNANT, YOU HAVE TO EVALUATE WHAT IS GOING ON, OFF THE BALL. To me, you don't need to go into a full blown motion offense in our sets, but I do think we need consistent cutters and player movement to make the opposing defense move. We need to be catching the ball off of movement to an area as opposed to standing around the perimeter and move the ball faster. When you just stand around the perimeter passing and reversing the ball, the defense stays balanced and is able to challenge our shots with no problems. Now if we move at least 2 people off the ball, at all times, then the defense has to be conscious of those players in where they move.
If you have read my posts, you know I am not as big of a fan of ON-BALL SCREENS as I am OFF-BALL SCREENS. ON-BALL screens are good if you can establish a screen/roll situation as an effective option consistently. I have not seen that out of our ON-BALL SCREENS. OFF-BALL SCREENS are more valuable because, ideally, you create mismatches as a result of the screens when a player catches the ball. The defender chasing the cutter, off the ball, is more susceptible to upfakes to drive past the defender or the offensive player will step through for an open jumper. But that requires PLAYER MOVEMENT. I think this level of execution would help Battle and Garcia, immensely. Then, when Garcia and Battle start getting consistent scoring, it will open the floor for others in the half court sets.
I have watched games and our numerous mistakes and am still more bullish on this team than most other fans. Because I have seen, and experienced, first hand, the process of going from bad to good. I do think we need to do a better job of setting up our guys for success. If we are missing open jumpers consistently, then we have to work harder on that skill as I think we have the right guys for that. But our player movement in our sets still has a lot to be desired, IMO.
Where I work, our motto and goal is "Set our team and our clients up for success". We take that to heart in terms of what it takes and what is implied, and I think our business has done well with that conscience of thought. That is what we need to do to make baby steps for this team. We are still working way too hard to get good shots in this offense. Ball movement is an obvious one to fix but now we need PLAYER MOVEMENT to be better in our sets.
WHEN OFFENSES GO STAGNANT, YOU HAVE TO EVALUATE WHAT IS GOING ON, OFF THE BALL. To me, you don't need to go into a full blown motion offense in our sets, but I do think we need consistent cutters and player movement to make the opposing defense move. We need to be catching the ball off of movement to an area as opposed to standing around the perimeter and move the ball faster. When you just stand around the perimeter passing and reversing the ball, the defense stays balanced and is able to challenge our shots with no problems. Now if we move at least 2 people off the ball, at all times, then the defense has to be conscious of those players in where they move.
If you have read my posts, you know I am not as big of a fan of ON-BALL SCREENS as I am OFF-BALL SCREENS. ON-BALL screens are good if you can establish a screen/roll situation as an effective option consistently. I have not seen that out of our ON-BALL SCREENS. OFF-BALL SCREENS are more valuable because, ideally, you create mismatches as a result of the screens when a player catches the ball. The defender chasing the cutter, off the ball, is more susceptible to upfakes to drive past the defender or the offensive player will step through for an open jumper. But that requires PLAYER MOVEMENT. I think this level of execution would help Battle and Garcia, immensely. Then, when Garcia and Battle start getting consistent scoring, it will open the floor for others in the half court sets.
I have watched games and our numerous mistakes and am still more bullish on this team than most other fans. Because I have seen, and experienced, first hand, the process of going from bad to good. I do think we need to do a better job of setting up our guys for success. If we are missing open jumpers consistently, then we have to work harder on that skill as I think we have the right guys for that. But our player movement in our sets still has a lot to be desired, IMO.
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