cowboysooner
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We are not being as successful at and around the rim as the better teams. A couple things I have noticed are that other than Javion, we are not "pressing the angle" when driving to the rim nor "flattening" at the rim like good players do. Don't know, but it looks like we don't coach these techniques. Saw a video of a rick pitino practice and he literally coached these techniques in every drill. For example, every layup drill involved working these techniques and doing so without committing an offensive foul. Every Kansas player plays like they have been coached on these things. Austin Reeves was good at this stuff. Maybe smaller guards grow up learning this stuff naturally as they figure out how to keep shot blockers from preventing them from blocking and altering their shots.
The other thing that bothers me is the time lapse between entry of the ball to the post and the shot. Virtually every good high school coach in Oklahoma does "down hard, up hard" drills. Under Bill Tubbs, the shot by the post player was essentially just part of the catch. If he caught a post catching the ball and then trying to figure out how he was going to dribble or get a shot off, he pulled them. This is why all of his post players were good scorers, even the short ones. Loved Lon, but would literally watch him have his bigs catch a ball in the post and dribble around and try and get a shot off. JMO, but this leads to ineffective post scoring and lots of turnovers.
Fair warning, just a fan and not a coach, so maybe I don't know what I am talking about.
The other thing that bothers me is the time lapse between entry of the ball to the post and the shot. Virtually every good high school coach in Oklahoma does "down hard, up hard" drills. Under Bill Tubbs, the shot by the post player was essentially just part of the catch. If he caught a post catching the ball and then trying to figure out how he was going to dribble or get a shot off, he pulled them. This is why all of his post players were good scorers, even the short ones. Loved Lon, but would literally watch him have his bigs catch a ball in the post and dribble around and try and get a shot off. JMO, but this leads to ineffective post scoring and lots of turnovers.
Fair warning, just a fan and not a coach, so maybe I don't know what I am talking about.