I wish Iowa would quit doing this.....

[knighthawk13]

I think you can make some wrinkles to your defensive sets, but wholesale changes are not going to work.

 

[STILLBUSTER]

I think you can make some wrinkles to your defensive sets, but wholesale changes are not going to work.

Sincerely,

Thad Matta

 

[HuckFinn]

Good grief! Some of you guys really know a lot about this very technical defensive strategy. I really enjoyed reading this thread. I have watched this in action and just thought it was about disrupting the offensive flow, but obviously it is a well thought out, planned strategy to do much more than that. Thanks to the OP for bringing up this topic!

 

[Knight78]

You can change how you defend screens during a game but everyone has to be on the same page before hand. You can't just wing it and your options are limited when it's a big screening for a guard.

if it's wings and guards screening for each other you have more options on how to play it.

Not necessarily. Iowa hedges on the screens pretty much everywhere. Iowa State switches almost every screen (some they don't but the screens they don't switch are screens I could probably go through right now at 58!). It's all in what the coach decides to go with.

To contrast Iowa and Iowa State, you'll notice that Iowa recruits position players (bigs, wings, point guards, etc.) whereas Iowa State hasn't really recruited a big and only has one true point guard. This leads to Iowa State being able to switch for each of the screens set.

 

[Knight78]

some of these posts are making me lol.... in all sports of all kinds changing defenses is often a sound and amazingly historically successful strategy.

Yes, changing from your man-to-man to a zone. You have one man-to-man defense that you run and one zone defense, maybe two. You also throw in a full court defense to press of some type and then some kind of either half court or 3/4 court press to control tempo. And you mix them up.

But you don't change from a hedge man-to-man into a switch man-to-man, etc.

 

[RocknRollface]

Not necessarily. Iowa hedges on the screens pretty much everywhere. Iowa State switches almost every screen (some they don't but the screens they don't switch are screens I could probably go through right now at 58!). It's all in what the coach decides to go with.

To contrast Iowa and Iowa State, you'll notice that Iowa recruits position players (bigs, wings, point guards, etc.) whereas Iowa State hasn't really recruited a big and only has one true point guard. This leads to Iowa State being able to switch for each of the screens set.

Sure, switching is by far the easiet way to defend a screen and basically nuetralizes it, but you don't wan't to create mistmatches when switching. ISU "bigs" are smaller and more versatile.

We can't have Woodbury switching on to a gaurd.