Vegas top 5:
1) strip club
2) strip club
3) strip club
4) strip club
5) casina
1) strip club
2) strip club
3) strip club
4) strip club
5) casina
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- Thread starter Mashburned
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All-Ugly Team:
C Shagari
Gimel
Dakari
Nerlens
F Knox
Mashburn
This is mean . I’m sorry
C Shagari
Gimel
Dakari
Nerlens
F Knox
Mashburn
This is mean . I’m sorry
Richards is pretty decrepit too. My wife thinks Vanderbilt is cute though.
Knox looks like Bowzer.
Mark Richt’s peachfuzz goatee looks like he has remnants of Bea Arthur’s cooch after he gave her a lil munchin.
It ain't over yet, Mash. After all, this is Drunk football we're talking about.
My leading scorer is once again the Kicker.
So this jarren Williams basically just trolled our coaching staff for the past several months.
You're welcome.
Lol KSR had Jarren's Daddy on the phone like " you're still coming right? Please tell us your son is still coming, k?".
All I know is Drew Barker can't be our QB next year. We should be pretty good as long as Barker ain't our QB.
Kind of hate our basketball team, but I like some of the players. Should be OK if they can figure out how to play together.
I think we do have defense problems. Quade sucks, SGA is dope. Idk why he didn't play as much tonight. Him and Diallo at the top of the zone is scary. (Cal needs to suck it up and play zone). Kevin Knox is matchup problem on both sides. Big guy will have to learn how to guard 6' honkies. Cal could coach one team of 12 guys for 100 years and they would all die before they learned how to guard a pick n roll. But damnit they sure would know how to SWITCH!!! The NBA loves that.
We should just put a statue of a qb under center and run the wildcat next season.
Wenyen is pretty bad... raw. 4 year player, TBH.
Will be interested to see his refreshing new way to bust through his SeniorDay paper hoop.
Will be interested to see his refreshing new way to bust through his SeniorDay paper hoop.
I notice quite a few who should return next year.Wenyen is pretty bad... raw. 4 year player, TBH.
Will be interested to see his refreshing new way to bust through his SeniorDay paper hoop.
Took the kaizerrettes to Rupp yesterday. Good time had by all. Especially since they both understand the game now. Fun to hear them point stuff out...especially when it's stuff going on OFF the ball.
But man are the Cats gonna take some lumps this season...beginning tomorrow night.
If I were coaching this bunch of AAU bull fighters I would teach them a matchup zone. Looks like man...but has zone principles. I would run a 2-3 matchup zone against bigger teams and a 3-2 matchup zone on a team that has two or more 3 point shooters.
Pretty sad state of affairs when you have to take your starting PG out of a closely contested game with 2 minutes to go because he can't guard the ball without giving up a wide open layup...every time down the court...against freaking Vermont. Wow. Never seen a PG at the D-1 level that absolutely can't guard the ball.
Having said all of that...Vermont has a decent team. I fully expect to see them contend for their conference title and an NCAA tourney birth...in whatever rinky dink conference that may be.
Oh yeah...you're probably wondering why I called our team a bunch of "AAU bull fighters". Well...no defense is played in AAU ball...that's pretty obvious. The bullfighter reference is because when playing on the ball we kind of side step and invite the ball handler to score at will. Only thing missing is the red cape.
Be well, jackals.
But man are the Cats gonna take some lumps this season...beginning tomorrow night.
If I were coaching this bunch of AAU bull fighters I would teach them a matchup zone. Looks like man...but has zone principles. I would run a 2-3 matchup zone against bigger teams and a 3-2 matchup zone on a team that has two or more 3 point shooters.
Pretty sad state of affairs when you have to take your starting PG out of a closely contested game with 2 minutes to go because he can't guard the ball without giving up a wide open layup...every time down the court...against freaking Vermont. Wow. Never seen a PG at the D-1 level that absolutely can't guard the ball.
Having said all of that...Vermont has a decent team. I fully expect to see them contend for their conference title and an NCAA tourney birth...in whatever rinky dink conference that may be.
Oh yeah...you're probably wondering why I called our team a bunch of "AAU bull fighters". Well...no defense is played in AAU ball...that's pretty obvious. The bullfighter reference is because when playing on the ball we kind of side step and invite the ball handler to score at will. Only thing missing is the red cape.
Be well, jackals.
Pay closer attention to the next NBA game you watch. They absolutely stretch the outer limits of where they are allowed to stand when playing defense off the ball (because of the illegal defense rule/not allowed to play zone). The really good teams play great TEAM defense...which means they are in great position to help on a driving player.
They basically play a matchup zone but with limits on where they can stand in relation to where the ball is at any given moment in time. But they always move when the ball moves and keep on the outer limit of that "line in the sand" that keeps it from being "zone like defense".
NBA team defense = "dog fence" zone
Instead of getting zapped with an electrical charge...they get hit with first a warning and upon 2nd offense they get a technical foul.
Sooooo...
UK playing a matchup zone could (on a reach) be construed as an outstanding "educational experience" for the quasi matchup zone-ish type man to man team defense played in the NBA.
UK playing a matchup zone could (on a reach) be construed as an outstanding "educational experience" for the quasi matchup zone-ish type man to man team defense played in the NBA.
Pretty much, Cal can no longer preach that "but NBA wants to see these guys defend the pick!!!!".
1. No they don't. I understand it's important to teach young players how to play defense, but NBA doesn't give one crap.
2. WE CAN'T DEFEND A PICK N ROLL TO SAVE OUR LIVES. EVER. We don't fight over picks, we don't do shit. We just SWITCH!!!!! and give up the 3. Every. Single. Time. It's the dumbest thing I've ever seen.
1. No they don't. I understand it's important to teach young players how to play defense, but NBA doesn't give one crap.
2. WE CAN'T DEFEND A PICK N ROLL TO SAVE OUR LIVES. EVER. We don't fight over picks, we don't do shit. We just SWITCH!!!!! and give up the 3. Every. Single. Time. It's the dumbest thing I've ever seen.
@Kaizer Sosay What is the quote that you used in the bascart thread from? I can hear it in my head but can't place it.
True dat, brother! Preach!!!
My HS basketball team played mostly man-to-man defense. We played some matchup zone and some trapping zone...but mostly (75% of the time) we played solid man-to-man team defense. And a big part of that success on D was that we defended the ish outta ball screens. You know why? Because we practiced it a ton. Do you know why we did that? Because it's pretty effing important.
I bring that up because we weren't blessed with a ton of talent. But we shot the ball well and we were an outstanding defensive team. And for the better part of two years we consistently beat the Lextown and Metro teams we played. In every one of those games we were out sized and out talented. Lost in the regionals to a Lextown team (who we beat by 16 points on their home court earlier in the reg season) by one point on a bogus call. ONE FREAKING POINT1111!!!! A trip to Rupp was well within my grasp...DAMNIT!!! One. Point. Man. One. Effing. Point.
Anyway...
Back to why learning how to defend the pick and roll is important...
Because the effing pick and roll is the oldest play in basketball...followed closely by the give and go and maybe the ol' picket fence play (think Hoosiers..."don't get caught watching the paint dry").
Damn near every basketball team on the planet uses the pick and roll at some point in their offense. Some use it a little. Others start their effing offense with it. In the past 10 years or so the later has been the better probability with the majority of teams at just about every level.
Now, what did we work on at Kaizer HS? Thanks for asking...start with the basics. You have 4 choices on defending a pick and roll:
1) Fight over the top.
2) Go "under" the screen. (teammate steps back to allow ball defender to step through)
3) Hedge. Defender of the picker temporarily steps out aggressively to alter the direction of the dribble while ball defender fights over or slides under screen (whichever is faster on any given play) to get back on the ball. When he does recover...teammate recovers back to guard the picker.
4) Switch. Worst choice. Especially if the ball handler can shoot the 3.
And for the last 9 years Cal has chosen option #4. Why? My guess is that he doesn't want to "waste" time teaching the different options in practice. Much quicker and easier and lazier to say "switch everything". But it's also much less effective on the court in...you know...KEEPING THE OTHER EFFING TEAM FROM SCORING!!!!!!!!!!!
The best option of all is option #5.
5) Teach all of the options above thoroughly. Scout your opponents. For each game know how you want to play each player on the pick and roll. And switch that up throughout the game to keep them off balance. (teams game plan the ish outta Cal's "switch everything" mentality. And the exploit the eff out of it) smh
Sooo...
If the ball handler can't shoot from outside...go under the screen. Easy peazy.
If he CAN shoot the 3...then go over the top and or hedge. Maybe mix it up. Also depends on if the screener can "pick and pop" and hit the J...or if he is an "Andre" and strictly "pick and rolls" to the basket.
If the ball handler is super quick you probably want to hedge as well. At least in certain situations.
And finally...if the team you are playing isn't particularly good at executing the pick and roll...AND there won't be a mismatch derived from a switch (i.e. Ulis guarding a freaking 7 footer in the paint)...then switch on a pick and roll. But you better teach 'em how to defend BOTH the roll AND the pop.
smh
In fact, I have been smh for 9 straight years on this very subject...every freaking game. Thanks for bringing this up again, mash. Thanks a lot.
{{Side note: above is merely the basics. You can also do combination stuff like combine fighting over the top and hedging at the same time...which is another way of saying you aggressively trap the ball handler.}}
WGAF about basketball -- the Ulcers are on a FIVE GAME winning streak you miserable sonsofbitches.
Count along silently as I count them out loud, onetwothreefourFIVE.
We're talking they crescendo AF bay-bee.
Count along silently as I count them out loud, onetwothreefourFIVE.
We're talking they crescendo AF bay-bee.
We have probably lost 7 championships because Cal can't defend screens.
Ok ok ok....maybe 3? Idk, but definitely 1. It's absolutely unreal how we have the best athletes ever and our defense is basically "ok guys just let the ball drive by you our shot blockers will clean it up, and sag off the perimeter, we'll get the rebound".
Ok ok ok....maybe 3? Idk, but definitely 1. It's absolutely unreal how we have the best athletes ever and our defense is basically "ok guys just let the ball drive by you our shot blockers will clean it up, and sag off the perimeter, we'll get the rebound".
