Comments on: Thoughts on KSU Loss

By: Bob in Houston

Bob in Houston — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:40:41 +0000

RS, if you’re only halfway dedicated to a pressing attack, it’ll get you beat, usually badly.

By: SkymonkeyHorn

SkymonkeyHorn — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:53:02 +0000

Bob totally agree with you. A change of pace during low energy/stagnant minutes could result is a few easy baskets.Turnovers for the other team that gets us more shots in transition.
The way we are right now is predictable, we need to change up every chance we get.
I would rather have Barnes telling the team to slow down a little then run that pick and roll/pop insanity for 40 minutes.
About 20 minutes of ass kicking, or it that not PC ?

By: RansomStoddard

RansomStoddard — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:33:18 +0000

If you are only halfway dedicated to a pressing attack, does it become “20 minutes of heck”?

By: Bob in Houston

Bob in Houston — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:13:52 +0000

I think I would settle for 15 or 20 minutes of hell, split between halves.

By: Art Vandelay

Art Vandelay — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:55:39 +0000

Time to strap on some butt ugly boots and go with 40 minutes of hell. We aren’t going to find better shooters in mid season.

By: SkymonkeyHorn

SkymonkeyHorn — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:34:57 +0000

“I thought that Barnes will change but we will see.”

I doubt that Barnes will change but we will see.
See the press already put me at a disadvantage.

By: SkymonkeyHorn

SkymonkeyHorn — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:31:20 +0000

A press does a lot things to the other team. If we throw a hard press on both guard for 90 feet the ball goes to someone else that is considered a big. Advantage UT.

Time taken off the shoot clock when we fall back to M2M after pressuring the ball. Adv. UT.

Say that Mason and/or Dog hound the PG for 90 feet forcing him to the sideline, we double at midcourt using the sideline as another defender.
Possibility of a bad pass,maybe a steal or the ball goes to the wrong spot on the court. ADVAn.UT.

With the talent that we have and I agree with Trips that we can match up with L’ville and clemson without a problem. Pressing is like a chess game, press is thinking 1-2 moves ahead of the PG and other team. ADV. UT.

The key is changing your press from guard press to a 1-3-1 to a 2-2-1 press and doubling everything in the corners and at mid-court then falling back to M2M. Rebounding well and taking the other team out of their game plan. ADV. UT

The energy is their in the talent that we have, Mason,DJ, GJ, Ward, Balbay all played an uptempo game in high school. AJ has the BB I.Q. to play uptempo as well as CA and Hill.
The press changes a lot of things for us and also the other team. Advantage UT.
I thought that Barnes will change but we will see.

By: EggNog

EggNog — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 05:54:23 +0000

If we become a pressing team, then our opponents prepare for that. Any legit team we play should have no problem running us out of the gym if we go that route. Remember, this was still just KSU. They did get hot, but it was KSU.

This squad will only beat good teams by grinding games out and limiting possessions. As I have said before when we struggled to put away weak teams, that slow down ball does us no favors in blowing out teams.

Do we do a Jekyll and Hyde thing from one game to the next? Mix and match throughout a game?

The pressing game will get us killed against good teams, and the slowdown game will have us lose occasionally to teams we shouldn’t. Its like having a gun to your head and being told you have to sleep with either your sister or your mother…

By: Trips Right

Trips Right — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 05:37:39 +0000

big, if Texas decides to press we can be every bit as good as Louisville and Clemson. We have just as many shooters and more athletes than both of those squads.

To answer your question, I think Barnes is too stubborn to go there and we end up a 5 seed that gets bounced in the second round.

By: bighornfan32

bighornfan32 — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 05:17:04 +0000

The question to you Trips is, where do you think our season ends?