Bulletin board material from Stackhouse?…

I kinda like Stackhouse cause he was a Sixer and he's sparky, but really . . .

 

Eh, this statement is not without warrant, as we did look vulnerable to the pressure. That said, Golden and crew watched the same game and likely don’t need any help with the diagnosis.

 

I don’t think he’s inaccurate. But it’s not like it’s the first game we’ve had issues busting a press either. The problem is can a team like Vandy do it for 40 minutes.

 

It's less like bulletin board material and more like look in the mirror material. We got exposed.

 

Meh, he isn’t wrong. I don’t think he was criticizing our program as a whole, just that aspect that we obviously struggled with.

 

Most of his success doing that was against backups the last two minutes.

 

Nah, they forced back to back turnovers in the last 2 minutes of the first half.
Honestly, I was surprised they didn’t come out pressing after every made basket

 

After the UGA game I was surprised. Auburn didn’t try to give us 40 minutes of hell. Maybe they were just worn out.

But it’s not like a team can just “decide” to press you all game long if they aren’t built for that. Usually it’s self-defeating unless you have supreme depth and athleticism. It was a good move for Vandy in short bursts. We aren’t great at breaking a press, but then again our pace will have a teams sucking wind before they think about pressing. We do need to figure out how to handheld traps better when those situations arise, I’ve seen Pullen retreat and pick up his dribble a few times and I’m pretty sure that’s never a good thing against a press (picking up the dribble is a fundamental no-no).

 

Honestly, I’ve been shocked more teams have not thrown pressure and zone defenses at us. It’s almost as if we are not being scouted.

 

2-3 easy buckets when a team presses is usually enough to get them to back off. There's a reason we don't see anyone run a true "40 minutes of hell" anymore.

 

Sounds like moral victory nonsense

"We won the last 90 seconds!"

 

Yep. Did Stackhouse and staff not watch any film on the gators before hand? This weakness has shown up all year.

 

Glad he said it

More emphasis is needed!

 

Few teams have the type of quality depth to pull it off. So I’d love to see them try to run press for an extended period and then have to play their bench due to fatigue and foul trouble for their best players.

Let them try and quickly find out why other teams have not been doing it except for a couple possessions where they catch us by surprise.

 

Good. We’ve improved against zine defenses when we were exposed. Now we’ll improve against the pressure, now that we’ve been exposed. Because we will need to get much better (and more comfortable) at handling the pressure attacks as we keep getting better and have big leads, particularly during tournament time.

 

he forgot about it until after the game

 

We have to do a better job especially in light of the fact that we have two elite ball handlers on the court most of the time with Pullin and Clayton.

Time to look at film because whenever there is pressure in one part of the court there is none on another.

our bigs handle the ball very well. We need to inbound the ball to one of them and let them bring the ball up.

Near the end of games or half’s we have to get the ball to Clayton or Pullin who are our two best FT shooters. We have to set screens to free them up.

 

It’s weird because we play at such a fast pace you’d think beating any type of press would be second nature. But for whatever reason teams running traps against us causes issues.