How do you defend the three?

[DC Muskie]

I've been thinking about this. How does a team effectively defend against the three point shot?

In M2M defense you can run under the screen. In zone you must close out on the wings.

Why are we so terrible at this? Is it because the pack line defense closes driving lines? Which leaves open spaces for such shots?

I need some thoughts here.

[D-West & PO-Z]

I've been thinking about this. How does a team effectively defend against the three point shot?

In M2M defense you can run under the screen. In zone you must close out on the wings.

Why are we so terrible at this? Is it because the pack line defense closes driving lines? Which leaves open spaces for such shots?

I need some thoughts here.

I think the packline sags some to close off the driving lanes.

And if you go under a screen in man to man that opens up the three point shot, but if you go over it opens up the drive. I think that is why we hedge so much.

[DC Muskie]

I think the packline sags some to close off the driving lanes.

And if you go under a screen in man to man that opens up the three point shot, but if you go over it opens up the drive. I think that is why we hedge so much.

You mean "over" the screen right?

[D-West & PO-Z]

You mean "over" the screen right?

We might be saying the same thing but have a different understanding of what over and under the screen means. To me if you go under a screen that means you are going behind the screener which you would want to do to if a guy wasnt a great shooter and you wanted to prevent him driving. TO go over a screen to me means going in front of the screener/fighting through it to prevent the guy with the ball from pulling up for three.

[DC Muskie]

We might be saying the same thing but have a different understanding of what over and under the screen means. To me if you go under a screen that means you are going behind the screener which you would want to do to if a guy wasnt a great shooter and you wanted to prevent him driving. TO go over a screen to me means going in front of the screener/fighting through it to prevent the guy with the ball from pulling up for three.

No we are on same the page. I must have read wrong, my bad.

But why are we so bad at it?

[xu82]

But why are we so bad at it?

Ahh, there's the billion dollar question!

And I have no answer. And no billion dollars.

[XUFan09]

We might be saying the same thing but have a different understanding of what over and under the screen means. To me if you go under a screen that means you are going behind the screener which you would want to do to if a guy wasnt a great shooter and you wanted to prevent him driving. TO go over a screen to me means going in front of the screener/fighting through it to prevent the guy with the ball from pulling up for three.

That's the correct terminology.

[LA Muskie]

A silly time for me to talk next year, but it's going to look very different. It always does, but we've been watching almost everything go through Dee and Stain. Replace Dee with a 6'5" PG (among others) and Stain with an athletic Jalen, bring Makinde off the bench and it's a very different look. Looking for it to just get better and better. Not without some bumps, but pretty exciting.

Different? Yes. More athletic? Yup. Better? Now that will remain to be seen... Eclipsing what Stain and Dee have done will not necessarily be an easy task, even if it didn't always look pretty.

[xu82]

Different? Yes. More athletic? Yup. Better? Now that will remain to be seen... Eclipsing what Stain and Dee have done will not necessarily be an easy task, even if it didn't always look pretty.

At the top of the things I'll miss the most is Matt passing out of the post. That opens a lot of things up, and I'm not sure how it's replaced.

Edit: I may change my mind if we can't get the ball up the floor and get the offense in gear.

[LA Muskie]

At the top of the things I'll miss the most is Matt passing out of the post. That opens a lot of things up, and I'm not sure how it's replaced.

Hopefully Reynolds, Farr, O'Mara and London have been taking copious notes!