Third Quarter Woes
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Maybe a "chicken or the egg" argument, but I'd disagree and say top coaches have more room/leverage to pick the players they know they can coach. Coaches don't win with rosters where they have to coach 5 different players 5 different ways.
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Someone with more time than me today needs to post CKC's quotes from the presser today on what they discovered about this team's 3rd quarter woes when they fully analyzed them. Very interesting.
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At the 05:10 mark she goes into all the types of defensive lapses they're trying to get the players to stop making in games, and ends that response with "...we [coaching staff] went into our third quarters, we looked at them to see if it was an offensive trend. There's some minor offensive trends, but the majority of it is coming on the defensive end."
To me, that's very heartening! It's much easier leaving the halftime locker room telling your guys/girls to focus on playing even better defense, than it is to emphasize scoring more points. It's a whole different mindset. I hope that can provide the key to unlocking this team for a full game's worth of focused basketball.
Kim keeps on coming across as very analytical. Hopefully this helps her when she has to sit down and reward this year.
The thing I am struck by is that there were games this year, even against good teams, when I thought their half-court defense looked pretty good. Then there were games when it just went away. Head scratching.
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Missed shots with long rebounds sets the other team up to get down the floor quickly - a lot of the made shots in the third quarter were layups for Vandy (i.e. high probability shots). Defensive breakdowns can be because the press is not working because the other team has adjusted to counter react to that, the press is not working because defensive players are not doing their job, missed shots on the offensive side that doesn't give the defense time to get back. etc. The blanket statement she made was just a blanket statement - they scored 30 points so the problem is defense.
It is not enough to say "focus on defense" - I'm fairly certain the players don't take the floor in the 3rd quarter and collectively say - we are not going to play defense.
I really think what happens in the 3rd quarter is that players on the opposing team are rested and their coaches have adjusted to what they saw in the first half. Then the LV's play right into that.
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So when we fans say the coaches are not making adjustments at halftime (since we're not privy to what's actually being said there) what we're really saying is we don't see evidence that adjustments have been made.
But postgame, we often hear CKC saying that the players didn't execute "what we talked about." We should also note that this staff is not low-level, unaccomplished, or inexperienced. We frequently see them "speaking very intentionally" to players coming off the court.
I'm wondering if, in recruiting players who like to play fast, we are also pulling in more players whose default is to play instinctively rather than with analytical intent. Such players, by personality type, would find it very difficult--nearly impossible maybe--to incorporate changes on short notice, or without a lot of practice repetition.
[For example, I measure high in Intuition. The last task you want to give me is one with a simple checklist. For most people, that checklist makes it simple. But for me, it's nearly impossible--and extremely irritating! What you want me for is to bring order out of chaos, not maintain order that's already established.]
If much of our fast playing roster is also strongly instinctive/intuitive, it makes sense that the demands of halftime adjustments may be falling on deaf ears--not willfully deaf, but just not attuned enough to allow sufficient penetration to overcome their years of playing by instinct.
Think back over the recent gauntlet when the LVs had little court practice time between games. We frequently heard in postgame that players "did not execute the scout." That might further support the idea that intuitive players need more on-court repetition in order to incorporate changes that diverge from their instinctive play.
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I know... the above is not an encouraging thought going into tournament season with its quick turnarounds.
But overall, that's what growth looks like: you encounter an obstacle, figure it out, adjust, plan ahead differently, and proceed to the next obstacle.
But postgame, we often hear CKC saying that the players didn't execute "what we talked about." We should also note that this staff is not low-level, unaccomplished, or inexperienced. We frequently see them "speaking very intentionally" to players coming off the court.
I'm wondering if, in recruiting players who like to play fast, we are also pulling in more players whose default is to play instinctively rather than with analytical intent. Such players, by personality type, would find it very difficult--nearly impossible maybe--to incorporate changes on short notice, or without a lot of practice repetition.
[For example, I measure high in Intuition. The last task you want to give me is one with a simple checklist. For most people, that checklist makes it simple. But for me, it's nearly impossible--and extremely irritating! What you want me for is to bring order out of chaos, not maintain order that's already established.]
If much of our fast playing roster is also strongly instinctive/intuitive, it makes sense that the demands of halftime adjustments may be falling on deaf ears--not willfully deaf, but just not attuned enough to allow sufficient penetration to overcome their years of playing by instinct.
Think back over the recent gauntlet when the LVs had little court practice time between games. We frequently heard in postgame that players "did not execute the scout." That might further support the idea that intuitive players need more on-court repetition in order to incorporate changes that diverge from their instinctive play.
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I know... the above is not an encouraging thought going into tournament season with its quick turnarounds.
But overall, that's what growth looks like: you encounter an obstacle, figure it out, adjust, plan ahead differently, and proceed to the next obstacle.
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