So here's a topic I'd like to throw out to all the basketball coaches or ex players on this board. That is, the failure of so many teams I watch to use the baseline as an offensive weapon.
This has been one of my criticisms of our Griz but when I watched Portland against Michigan State, I noticed the same thing: Portland never too advantage of baseline cuts and so their offense was concentrated from the mid-post area out to beyond the three-point line which made it so much smaller an area for Michigan State to defend. It seems to me that baseline cuts would lead to lob dunks, drop-offs to post players or kick-outs to less heavily guarded three-point shooters. I see the pro's using the baseline much more than college offenses and I don't understand why.
As to fast breaks. It's obvious that the big advantage of the fast break is to attack a defense before it gets set up. If you play the slow-paced brand of basketball we play, we're always confronting a defense that is set up, in place, crouched down, ready to defend. Not only is the slow pace boring, I don't see in the long run how it improves an offense.
Any reaction from the experts out there?
This has been one of my criticisms of our Griz but when I watched Portland against Michigan State, I noticed the same thing: Portland never too advantage of baseline cuts and so their offense was concentrated from the mid-post area out to beyond the three-point line which made it so much smaller an area for Michigan State to defend. It seems to me that baseline cuts would lead to lob dunks, drop-offs to post players or kick-outs to less heavily guarded three-point shooters. I see the pro's using the baseline much more than college offenses and I don't understand why.
As to fast breaks. It's obvious that the big advantage of the fast break is to attack a defense before it gets set up. If you play the slow-paced brand of basketball we play, we're always confronting a defense that is set up, in place, crouched down, ready to defend. Not only is the slow pace boring, I don't see in the long run how it improves an offense.
Any reaction from the experts out there?