Massachusetts' top-ranked Division 2 team, Medfield (in blue), faced off against Central Catholic, ranked six in Division 1 in the Comcast tournament semifinals. Here are a few video teaching points.
Choose a pace likely to work for your athletes. Medfield is fast and athletic and Central is more methodical. Choosing to press out of the gate seems ill-advised to me. Medfield rips through it.
Chuck Daly preached "spacing is offense and offense is spacing." Medfield usually has excellent spacing opening up penetration and often drives to dish for corner threes. Here they finish at the rim.
This BOB sets up a closeout and Medfield attacks it without enough resistance.
America's Play (BOB). You can't get screened and/or you have to switch to get out on the shooter.
Where is the blue sky? Why pass the ball into the post to your 5 foot nothing point guard? There's no advantage creation and Medfield is in the midst of a 19-0 run.
Medfield played a lot of zone. Here Central screens the middle of the zone to open a cutter who can't finish. Well-designed action
Medfield runs a high ball screen to open a drive and kick for 3.
Handoff, screen, drive, dish, and three. Teams cannot help against the drive and give up the three.
