Can't Defend Pick and Roll or Pop

[KyMaster]

This team cant defend the pick and roll/pop. What offense do we run, other than piss poor?

 

[ala_kat2]

This team cant defend the pick and roll/pop. What offense do we run, other than piss poor?

Cal's teams never do defend the pick and pop/roll. What's new?

 

[Comebakatz3]

Most teams aren't going to hit that shot at the rate that UCLA did tonight. You'd almost always allow the big man to shoot a 15 footer.

 

[Impressario]

This team cant defend the pick and roll/pop. What offense do we run, other than piss poor?

This is true what you said, but, this falls on Calipari. It is his job to coach these players up. He is doing all of this hollering and screaming but his in game coaching leaves a lot to be desired. I honestly believe these kids are confused as to what to do. He is recruiting all of these players and they come out every year the first few games setting the world on fire and then around the sixth or seventh game they start looking lethargic on offense and are out of position on defense. They make one mistake he yanks them out of the game and yells at them and then he sends another in and they make a mistake and then he yanks them out and here comes another and another. I got dizzy with all of that substituting back and forth and there was no flow. One time he did not have any shooters out there at all and all they were doing was dribbling around on the perimeter and throwing up bricks. Okay you are running the dribble drive but they are packing it in then you have to have a more organized offense to counter it. What are they doing in practice? Are they working on free throw shooting? All I am saying is this team has regressed the last 3 games and the other teams are beginning to gel and get better, even the teams who have freshmen like us. Poythress still has that deer in the headlights look to him. He is a senior and still not taking the leadership roll. This team looked terrible tonight and it falls on Calipari. I am glad Calipari is here and he is good for the program with his recruiting success and his marketing of the UK brand, but there are areas he can improve on as well this team did not look good at all tonight and Cal was outcoached to say the least.

 

[the nail at the foul line]

Could not defend tonight at all. Briscoe pushed three times then on fourth push is called for foul. Cal can't fix that. Beyond the refs we played horrible.

 

[rolaid]

Hey Cal why not use Skal in a pick & pop instead of running the 3 man basket weave out front with a team sagging in

 

[CatPhight]

I'm more worried about the continual inability to score against four players in the paint.

A cold night perimeter shooting = L

 

[WallStar11]

How else would you want to defend that pick and pop? They "Walled (In Cal's terminology)" it, which is a horizontal hedge with the guard going over the screen. The big shows and then stunts to recover.

If they went under the screen (Whipped) it was a wide open shot for Alford. If they blitzed the screen they would have reserved the ball and attacked our weakside without a post presence and probably got us in even more trouble.

The big white kid was automatic tonight. It's tough to defend. These are high level college players, sometimes it's not our night.