Box and 1

[tm3308]

Anybody else think maybe this is something we should try? Way too late to save this game, but might be useful down the road. If we want to go zone to mix it up, leave the best man-to-man defender we have on the floor at the time on the best shooter. We actually play pretty solid man-to-man, but we don't have to horses to run it all game. Box and 1 (hopefully) takes away the best shooter while still giving the other four players a bit of a breather.

 

[cibula11]

Problem with Box and one is that there is still 4 other guys that can shoot the three. They need to stick with man and do it really well.

 

[tm3308]

Problem with Box and one is that there is still 4 other guys that can shoot the three. They need to stick with man and do it really well.

Like I said, too late to save this game. But most teams don't have that many good shooters on the floor at once. For most teams, taking away their best 3-baller will take away a good chunk of their outside game. That's not the case for Northwestern.

Possibly a triangle and two would be better. But this has happened in EVERY game this year. I think we might need to look at a zone/man combo more often, because we can't go man all game, and we can't go straight zone at all.

 

[cibula11]

Like I said, too late to save this game. But most teams don't have that many good shooters on the floor at once. For most teams, taking away their best 3-baller will take away a good chunk of their outside game. That's not the case for Northwestern.

true, but so far this year EVERY team has had multiple shooters knocking down threes.

 

[SheagleHawk]

Like I said, too late to save this game. But most teams don't have that many good shooters on the floor at once. For most teams, taking away their best 3-baller will take away a good chunk of their outside game. That's not the case for Northwestern.

Unfortunately, everyone has career nights on us from downtown. ISU, Illinois, NW....and the list will continue to grow. I just can't believe how terrible we are at rotating and finding shooters.

 

[tm3308]

Unfortunately, everyone has career nights on us from downtown. ISU, Illinois, NW....and the list will continue to grow. I just can't believe how terrible we are at rotating and finding shooters.

This sums it up. That's why I'd like to see a man on the best shooter (Christopherson, McCamey, Thompson, etc.) at all times. Takes the recognition/rotation out of the equation for at least one guy. And 4 on 4 reduces the ground that our guys have to cover by a little (and at this point, every little bit helps).

 

[HawkI101]

I think Fran wants to be a man to man team so playing junk defenses to help us lose by 10 instead of 20 isn't going to help us in the future. I think you just stay man, you may get beat bad but you will keep getting better at it. We just need to stop leaving our guys at the 3 pt line, no doubling.

 

[knighthawk13]

I'm not the coach for good reasons, but maybe it wasn't such a good idea to have Gatens and May crash the low post to help so NW could kick it out and shoot an open 3. Make them beat you in the paint.

 

[storminspank]

Iowa went Box and 1 on Shurna in the 2nd half, then back into the zone, then into Man. Then back into zone the rest of the way.

 

[tm3308]

I think Fran wants to be a man to man team so playing junk defenses to help us lose by 10 instead of 20 isn't going to help us in the future. I think you just stay man, you may get beat bad but you will keep getting better at it. We just need to stop leaving our guys at the 3 pt line, no doubling.

We're not too bad at man right now. Just not enough horses to go for 40 minutes (even though I did like what I saw from Stoermer late in the game, perhaps a little added depth there). But I get what you're saying.

The announcers in the OSU-UM game mentioned something late when Kraft helped on the post, leaving his man free for a 3 pointer on the kickout: don't help if your teammate has his man under control. That's something we seem to do a lot of, and it's contributed to the open looks on the perimiter. We double up on guys that we don't need to too often.

 

[SidFarkas]

Three times I saw Gatens run in to double on a post only to give up a three.

Why? Nwesterns dominant low post threat?

One time he was helping at the pinch 15 ft from the basket only to give up a kick out three.

Play one post tonight, play straight up and switch all their screening action or give up 90.