Pointing out that over-committing leads to back-door lay-ups is a start.
But the rest is a good summary of our current game threads: "Man, we suck at shooting free throws"...or 3-pointers, or ball handling. We can do better.
Is failing to feed the post an issue of court vision? Over-commitment to pass progression in the offensive scheme? Not looking to make an entry pass off a ball screen?
tcu was a bad perimeter defensive team last year and not very good this year. why? a number of reasons, but a great deal of defense in basketball is a matter of committing to it.
it sucks especially on the perimeter to continually have to through screens, stay down in proper defensive position, and unfortunately we live in a day and age where there is an emphasis on offense and you see a number of players rest on defense.
you can't play defense standing straight up or people are going to go right past you and yet look at guys like bane and mayan out on the perimeter. i damn well know dixon and his staff harp on this all the time, but watch any game today and how many players do you see doing these things and i just don't mean tcu.
in regards to feeding the post i think that is a byproduct of the modern game versus the game 20 years ago. every damn tcu guard and wing player aside from jaylen would be on the bench next to my high school coach for not going to the first option in his offense which was the low post down on the block.
heck, go to a high school game today and kid's don't know how to properly position themselves in the post let alone call for the ball. then we have the math guys telling us to shoot 3's because we can miss more of those and still outscore the 2's.
i don't know what dixon wants the frogs to do in that situation. i just know frogs had a big advantage inside and they were happy to fire away from behind the arc instead of forcing lipscomb to make a decision on who they were going to defend. look at what happened when tcu put miller down low. he killed it and if we see that earlier in the game it forces the defense to choose to either allow that or fall back and makes the outside shots easier.
funny thing is just like football. there are some very basic concepts in basketball that apply in any generation. solid perimeter defense, no easy baskets off turnovers and put backs, moving the ball with passes over the course of a game is more effective than creating everything off the dribble etc.... i don't care if you are golden state or nova it isn't the 3's it is the little things and right now tcu is doing nearly enough of the little things
