"Good artists borrow, great artists steal." - Picasso
Radius Athletics is a must see Twitter feed. Today, I'm stealing images from the Radius feed. They illustrate important principles.
Fight through screens.
Cutting is an art. You can basket cut, cut to an open spot, cut to screen, cut and replace yourself, cut and fill, and cut to move defenders. I've previously shown the Toronto (Dwayne Casey) approach to defending cutters with 'tag'. Make them defend.
Young players usually hate zone. Here Wisconsin is playing in the gaps. I thought Syracuse's Coach Boeheim teaches the front to be able to 'touch hands' to limit entry to the nail. Del Harris teaches wings to position themselves to avoid being in the passing lanes.
Excellent example of cutting, filling, ball reversal, and then applying off-ball screens with or without give-and-go. "Movement kills defenses."
Frank Martin's Gamecocks want to keep the ball out of the middle. He wants to make life hard with ball pressure and pressure one pass away. But he reminds players, "the help cannot get beat."
You have to know what you can't give up...layups and uncontested "rhythm" 3s.
