you get total roster changeover every year and its basically NBA style, no style of system and in one year most leave to go somewhere else. Basketball program has to think this way, yes be engaged with the Triumph experts on valuation of players existing and projected, see what NIL offers you can and also have hard discussions with existing team members, if its not right suggest moving on. Calaparri and Kentucky and most of the SEC and Big 12 have figured this out.

if the game comes down to street ball. AAU and college BB players just think they are. A lot of people would tell you all of these dynamics were already happening before the portal and NIL, but it’s just out in the open now. But it feels like it has affected us worse now for some reason. I’ve also thought maybe it just seems that way and these things are really cyclical. We had some terrible, terrible teams under Johnson, Hussey, and Stokes. The difference now is that we actually have a good coach, but the team overall looks like those ones. So I do think the current dynamics poison the well worse for us than a lot of other programs.

grabbed the best basketball players they could get and retain. One of the best happened to be embroiled in a federal point shaving investigation and here we are... MY is clearly a good coach but we need a better budget and even with that budget better recruiters. I'd guess he doesn't do the Buzz thing where he dedicates 10% to 20% of his salary to pay players either? That would help.....

This season to date. In my opinion team should spend 50% ofpractice time working on getting the ball past 1/2 court and into offense quickly without Much dribbling via quick passes. T.O. and lost time to run offense against shot clock are biggest single reason we are losing games. We played a ranked Pitt team even and even had a good lead late. However. All Pitt had to do was press last five minutes of the game and we were toast! VT has to make teams pay for pressing and until we can via pass, team is in trouble Hammond and Rech can't beat press alone. They need help and we need a gameplan for it.

His whole approach is to play at a slow tempo. Making the other team pay for pressing seems at odds with his approach, because it speeds up the game and allows the other team to dictate tempo. His approach to the press (not just this year, but earlier years as well) is for his guards (mainly the PG) to get the ball over the line in under 10 seconds, and then start the normal half-court offense.

Before getting into our set offense has been a problem. Ideally no opponent would press us, Pitt did not until end of game. Pressing allowed Pitt to quickly negate VT lead and build one good enough for a win. My point is that our 2 PGs can't get it across safely and with enough time to run our offense consistently. We need something to counter the cryptonite that is a full court press for this VT squad! Why not throw it in to Wessler or Lawal half way up back court and then have them pass to whoever is open past half court or a streaking guard. Then depending on what is open, go to the bucket, take an open three, or slow it down and run our half court offense? Goal needs to be eliminating turnovers and getting into set offense quickly enough that team has time to run it to get a great shot. I just don't see where we have enough ball handlers to do it with dribble. So what is the alternative to using quick passes? I do not want us to try and be a fast break team. I just want us to find a way to discourage teams pressing us. We have to go fast with pass and to the bucket for score some or teams will continue to press us and we will continue to lose.

Coach Young's normal approach of relying heavily on the PG to break the press is not working as well this year as previous years, due to limited experience (and maybe capability) at PG. So, to your point, trying something different to get into our offensive sets quickly and efficiently makes sense. Trying to speed-up getting the ball to the basket is a classic way to break the press. With this team, that approach seems like a recipe for even more TOs.

Rather use passes to get across 1/2 quickly and w/o turnover. Then they can run half court offense, unless easy basket is too good an opportunity to pass up! Yes, this is something new and will require alot of staff and player practice to make successful. However, key to MY half court offense is good passing and screening. Develop plan to use those same skills to nullify opponents press? Now is likely last chance to implement something this new. Once ACC play begins it's a hard grind with hardly time to think.

or slow for the level they are playing at. It doesn't matter how well you can handle the ball, if you don't have size and strength and quickness, a press will expose it and you will struggle.