Dodge, shoot. That’s our entire offense.

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We’ve got to finish that on the crease. Only good luck we’ve had

Greene Rice FIG said:

The answer is somewhere in between.

1. We have filled the roster with guards that can't shoot
2. The staff is not offensive oriented. We do have plays, sets, concepts and we mostly use them but are they the right ones.
3. Too many players don't use screens, set screens properly, and make off ball cuts (or I call them jogs)

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You have been harping on screen-setting, and I applaud you for it. We are bad at setting screens, and bad at running our defender into screens, which is just as important, but often overlooked. I learned how to do both in middle school, for f*'s sake.

I sit above the visitor bench. In the 2nd half vs Iowa, I watched closely as Iowa's big set solid screens, while the guard coming around the screen would lead their man directly into the screener's body. Textbook. Harper looked visibly frustrated after his face planted into their big man's shoulder again.

Offensive sets don't have to be complex in order to be effective. It drives me nuts that we don't execute screens properly.

How do you miss that shot.

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it is really painful to watch our off ball play. They are like spectators. No cuts, no off ball picks. They don’t even seem to expect to be involved in the offense unless they are carrying. It’s like a bad HS offense.

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Caliknight said:

We down 2-0 and have won every faceoff. Ball movement and player movement is horrid. We get no cutters and everyone stands around watching the guy with the ball. It’s all so easy to guard. Army is pressing out because they know we aren’t going to take advantage of the space that creates.

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Is Pike coaching lacrosse now too?

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Defense keeping us in it. Just not sure how we’ll score unless it’s unsettled

My first brush with a famous person(s) was around 1966. My uncle was given box seats to a NYY game and took me, my older brother and my cousin. We were a few boxes behind the Yankees dugout and I was 8 years old and a big Mickey Mantle fan. In the middle of the game an usher asked if my 10 year old cousin and I wanted to sit with a nice lady in her box for the next inning. She had the first row box right next to the dugout and Mickey was due to bat. We were shy but my uncle told us to do it. When Mickey came out of the dugout the lady yelled for him to say “hi” to us, and he did with a wave and his trademark big smile. Fantastic!

A great day for me. My mother was more impressed that me and my cousin got to sit with some lady named Pearl Bailey.

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I’ve been fortunate to run into lots of celebrities. The biggest one; I was on the Oprah Winfrey Show. Met her in the green room. Got pictures with her.

The next biggest one: I got to sit at a fundraiser table with Bill Clinton back in 2015. My boss was hosting a dinner at his home in Chappequa for the Clintons.

Another random one:
New Year’s Eve 2003. We went to the Shore Club NYE party in Miami Packed with models and celebrities. I look to my right and there was Derek Jeter 5 feet away from me in a $3000 suit. I went up to him and introduced myself like he might know who I was. Then at 1:30 in the morning I was taking a piss at the urinal and Jeter walks up to the urinal next to me. I look over and say “shouldn’t you be banging a supermodel right now?”. We both chuckled.

Most recently went to game 4 of the world series and rode the elevator up with the Ryan Fitzpatrick, Andrew Wintworth and the blonde host from Amazon Thursday Night Football. Rode the elevator down with Andrew Mackey (the Falcon) and the guy who plays Carmine on The Bear and the actress who plays his girlfriend (they’re dating in real life).

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Agree about the atmosphere at the RAC being destroyed by our own athletic department/gameday ops. They spend money on spotlights, truck with billboards outside, endless t-shirt tosses to the same 100 people. Yet, they miss the mark completely and destroyed what made the RAC “the RAC” by killing the pep band, blasting music like the stadium to where you cant talk to the person next to you, and making the crowd organic noise quieter. Also stupid timeout cadences, do the ceremony stuff in the first half, second half needs to be band and pump up the crowd

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Scarlet Shack said:

And people wonder why people like BK don’t post more ….

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Are we all really that easily offended and thin skinned?

An offensive system is meant to give a schematic advantage over your competition. Look at the data you provided. The leaders of those stats all have easily identifiable offensive systems and schemes. Most of them have one thing in common. An offense built around motion offensive screening principles. You put our roster in any of those systems and I’m sure the data would improve for our players. ISO/horns/4 flat stationary set especially this year the way the roster is constructed was probably the least efficient set.

Would you say Iowa Wisconsin Purdue has an athletic advantage over the rest of the B1G? But they are always near the top of the standings because they run a defined system and recruit to their needs and expectations.