the flex offense

#2
#2
Didnt suck too bad against Nova and Pitt. Granted, it did tonight. I dont care what kind of O you run, your not suppose to go 2-7 from the line. Just another bad night of shooting IMO
 
#4
#4
The fact that we only had 7 free throw attempts is sketchy to me... I didn't watch the game, but 7 free throw ATTEMPTS?!

Seems as if the officiating, looking at it on paper, was lacking...
 
#6
#6
The flex doesn't even look like an offense. Looks more like a lot of standing around until 10 seconds on the clock and a pick and roll.
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#7
#7
Yes it is a problem. When you stand around and have to end up throwing up a contested deep three its not a good possession. And that seems to happen often. I don't know how many times we wait until 4 seconds on the shot clock bc we pass it like little girls back and forth for 30 seconds
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#8
#8
VOLNBAMA said:
it's a middle school offense
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this.

I learned it in Middle School not as an offense because our coach said "It's too simple" we used the flex as a drill to work on man to man principles for defense.

Literally every basketball player I know who played organized ball at least to HS knows the flex.
 
#9
#9
KingtUT said:
Didnt suck too bad against Nova and Pitt. Granted, it did tonight. I dont care what kind of O you run, your not suppose to go 2-7 from the line. Just another bad night of shooting IMO
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When you make 3's like we did against Pitt, most offenses, if not any offense, will work.
 
#10
#10
Infinite_vol615 said:
Yes it is a problem. When you stand around and have to end up throwing up a contested deep three its not a good possession. And that seems to happen often. I don't know how many times we wait until 4 seconds on the shot clock bc we pass it like little girls back and forth for 30 seconds
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That has nothing to do with the flex. None.
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#16
#16
The flex is a good offense. Pearl's teams just run it lazy and set horrible, lazy screens that are ineffective.
 
#17
#17
Ohiovol09 said:
The flex is a good offense. Pearl's teams just run it lazy and set horrible, lazy screens that are ineffective.
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They run a little modified flex as their base offense that a middle school coach could keep them from scoring out of. It's not anything like the normal flex that many teams run.
 
#18
#18
BigPapaVol said:
Our approach against a zone is embarrassing.
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When a team plays zone against us I scream at the TV to drive/throw a skip pass but we always pass it around the horn and jack up some crappy shot. Its ridiculous.
 
#19
#19
LawVol13 said:
They run a little modified flex as their base offense that a middle school coach could keep them from scoring out of. It's not anything like the normal flex that many teams run.
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Yes, I have no clue how Bruce has been so successful with such a pathetic offense that a middle school coach could keep them from scoring out of.
 
#20
#20
CAVol said:
When a team plays zone against us I scream at the TV to drive/throw a skip pass but we always pass it around the horn and jack up some crappy shot. Its ridiculous.
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Pearl's zone offense is and will continue to be utterly atrocious. He hasn't improved it one bit in 6 years.
 
#21
#21
LawVol13 said:
Pearl's zone offense is and will continue to be utterly atrocious. He hasn't improved it one bit in 6 years.
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Once again, I don't see why any coach in their right mind can't figure this out. Jamie Dixon and Jay Wright are such morons as to are the 77% of other teams Bruce has beat in his career. Bruce is a moron, can't believe no one but us can see it.
 
#22
#22
LawVol13 said:
Pearl's zone offense is and will continue to be utterly atrocious. He hasn't improved it one bit in 6 years.
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The problem with Pearl's zone offense is that lacks a high post at the foul line area. A high post goes against the principals of the flex offense so that is why Pearl will not do it. In the flex the cutters go all the way through instead of having a player play the high post area. Instead of having a different zone offense Pearl thinks his man offense will work vs zone and it does not.

90-95% of the time there is never anyone at the high post in Pearl's zone offense and that is why it fails from the start. That is the weakness of the 2-3 zone. Watch USC next game when they play us 2-3 (I am sure they will) and the middle of the zone is wide open. Without a high post you just put your offensive players were there defensive players are and play right in to their hands.

If we would put Harris at the high post and it would vastly improve our zone offense. The reason Harris would be perfect for that spot is he can square to basket and could shoot, pass or has the ability to take it the hole off the dribble if they rotate late. Also the high post pulls the back side defender into the middle when the defense rotates and this would give us more open 3's back side instead of trying to skip pass the ball all the way across the court.
 
#23
#23
I haven't been on volnation recently due to finals; however, I have had a chance to catch the basketball games.

The flex isn't a problem. Every college basketball team runs some version of it. The purpose of the flex is ball movement and screens to get open looks. We've been getting open looks, we just haven't been hitting open shots. THIS is the reason we have lost the past two games. Even Hopson said this the other day. When we hit the shots, we can beat anyone, when we don't we can lose to anyone.

The thing I'd like to see are halftime adjustments. If we're not hitting jumpers, take more high percentage shots and rack up some points in the paint. The last two losses are inexcusable and we won't get better until we adjust to adversity. In not one of our wins have we had to make a halftime adjustment. We just seem not to be as resilient as Pearl's past teams.
 
#24
#24
Zeppelin18241 said:
I haven't been on volnation recently due to finals; however, I have had a chance to catch the basketball games.

The flex isn't a problem. Every college basketball team runs some version of it. The purpose of the flex is ball movement and screens to get open looks. We've been getting open looks, we just haven't been hitting open shots. THIS is the reason we have lost the past two games. Even Hopson said this the other day. When we hit the shots, we can beat anyone, when we don't we can lose to anyone.

The thing I'd like to see are halftime adjustments. If we're not hitting jumpers, take more high percentage shots and rack up some points in the paint. The last two losses are inexcusable and we won't get better until we adjust to adversity. In not one of our wins have we had to make a halftime adjustment. We just seem not to be as resilient as Pearl's past teams.
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Everyone should take the time to read this as it is spot on. ^^^^



Furthermore, my team ran a variant of the flex in high school with emphasis on wing cutters. It is not like the flex offense is bad against the zone, it just requires you have a pair of very good perimeter shooters, something we lack.

In order to beat the zone, adjustments need to be made, I am totally confident that it will happen and the next time a team will attempt to zone us we will burn them for it. If you think the coaching staff is not working 24-7 making adjustments you are insane.
 
#25
#25
Flex is a man offense.

yoyoyoyo said:
The problem with Pearl's zone offense is that lacks a high post at the foul line area. A high post goes against the principals of the flex offense so that is why Pearl will not do it. In the flex the cutters go all the way through instead of having a player play the high post area. Instead of having a different zone offense Pearl thinks his man offense will work vs zone and it does not.

90-95% of the time there is never anyone at the high post in Pearl's zone offense and that is why it fails from the start. That is the weakness of the 2-3 zone. Watch USC next game when they play us 2-3 (I am sure they will) and the middle of the zone is wide open. Without a high post you just put your offensive players were there defensive players are and play right in to their hands.

If we would put Harris at the high post and it would vastly improve our zone offense. The reason Harris would be perfect for that spot is he can square to basket and could shoot, pass or has the ability to take it the hole off the dribble if they rotate late. Also the high post pulls the back side defender into the middle when the defense rotates and this would give us more open 3's back side instead of trying to skip pass the ball all the way across the court.
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