augustin isn't as quick as a steele. i would venture to say that minor has lost quite a bit from knee surgery but he was simply screened off every possession. ball screens are basketball 101. wtf was magnum doing out there?
couldnt it be communication? sometimes you fight through them, and sometimes you switch. i expect youd want to switch when youre talking about a 6'10" forward guarding a 5'10 guard.
Something that still confuses me is that over the past several years watching Brady coach, I've noticed if there's one thing he's got, it's the ability to make a play during a time out. Ever notice around the 12:05 or 8:05 mark he always calls a time out (assuming we have the ball), right before the official time out? We almost always score in those situations because of a play he makes up. I find it hard to believe that he calls a time out with 11 seconds to play and says, "OK, GT, I want you to hold the ball at the top of the key, and shoot. Big Baby will get the rebound and score and we win." He's a better coach than that. He knows GT is not the clutch shooter than Mitchell became. Why did that ending happen?
usually a coach will give options depending on the d. one will be stressed as preferred, but gt thinks he's open and cant get the ball to glen---he shoots. an open look is better than a turnover, but it sucked. dont forget he had just hit a big one.
Magnum's man screened out both Tasmin and Tack to free up Durant and Augustin for easy baskets on so many occasions it wasn't funny. He has to recognize this after maybe the 1st or 2nd time it happens.
Rolle is suppose to step out on the ball screen to slow the ball handler up just enough until our player can fight over/under/through the screen. It's not a switch, he just has to slow the guy down long enough for us to recover.
i was wrong. shouldnt believe everything you read (im referring to what i read not to you reading my post ) some yahoo or cbssportsline article said that. theyve only played two good teams in mich st and gonzaga---and lost.
