Asking for a friend, who sees us spend 25 seconds per possession running and passing aimlessly around the perimeter on offense then chucking up a prayer from deep, and overplaying on defense to the tune of about 15 unguarded 3's per game as the help defender scrambles out to get an arm 5 feet short of the shooter.
Sure, it takes some talent to beat your guy off the dribble and attempt to drive the paint, but you can watch us not even consider an aggressive move from about second 30 down to about second 6. This is mindset and some mental obligation to get the ball to so-and-so in order to run such-and-such in every half court set. And it's all done about 5 feet beyond the arc with body language that never threatens an attacking move. It's just this weird, dithering approach to offensive basketball that really doesn't require the defense to do much of anything other than casually shuffle around.
Defense is a tiny bit more understandable as our mediocre athletes routinely get beat off the dribble forcing a help defender to hedge. In OSU's case, this is usually a full-on panic hedge completely leaving their man open for the drive and kick. I'm not basketball savvy enough to know if there's some lesser amount of help we can provide that would result in fewer open looks, but it seems pretty outrageous.
In all the defenses of Boynton, there's basically never discussion about his philosophies and what those lead to on the court, but I think we're a bit overdue there for some honest evaluation.
Sure, it takes some talent to beat your guy off the dribble and attempt to drive the paint, but you can watch us not even consider an aggressive move from about second 30 down to about second 6. This is mindset and some mental obligation to get the ball to so-and-so in order to run such-and-such in every half court set. And it's all done about 5 feet beyond the arc with body language that never threatens an attacking move. It's just this weird, dithering approach to offensive basketball that really doesn't require the defense to do much of anything other than casually shuffle around.
Defense is a tiny bit more understandable as our mediocre athletes routinely get beat off the dribble forcing a help defender to hedge. In OSU's case, this is usually a full-on panic hedge completely leaving their man open for the drive and kick. I'm not basketball savvy enough to know if there's some lesser amount of help we can provide that would result in fewer open looks, but it seems pretty outrageous.
In all the defenses of Boynton, there's basically never discussion about his philosophies and what those lead to on the court, but I think we're a bit overdue there for some honest evaluation.
