Your knowledge of basketball intricacies is so far beyond mine. I marvel that you can dissect so precisely plays that my limited brain sees only as a mad scramble. I think you are an amazing sportswriter because you try to educate your readers. 💕💙💕thank you for taking the time to do this.
Thank you Erlyn. About a decade ago, I taught high school for 2 years. I'm always trying to educate. We appreciate you participating in these discussions.
Love these breakdowns and I too noticed how Tyson reacted quickly and decisively to the double
“What I love about the play is Tyson’s total control of Colorado. He has been driving and dominating, eventually shooting a perfect 8-for-8 for the half, and anticipates the incoming double-team. When J’Vonne Hadley finally commits to the double team, Tyson immediately pulls the ball back out and passes it to Kennedy to rotate it over to Cone.“
This is helpful and timely. I often noticed that it looked like the CO players were just faster as they blew by our guys. But it's less that than what you point out here. I often struggle to tell when it is a called play, and when it is improv. I'd love some analysis of that. What is the called play? When is it mainly improv?
The officials missed multiple false starts on that inbound but I'll take the Pac-12 refs making an error in our favor. They didn't even carry flags on them!
Appreciate the defensive context and explanation. Aimaq seems a step slow but it's good that we've either schemed around it or he's selflessly executing the defense as designed.
We took care of the ball well during this game. What do you think changed?
For taking care of the ball, I'm not sure there was one thing. But, CU's defensive assignments were interesting. For long stretches, they had 6' 8" Cody Williams guarding 5' 10" Jalen Cone. That left 6' 2" KJ Simpson and others to guard Tyson and the other wings. While this definitely limited Cone's ability to shoot off the dribble, they didn't disrupt the passing lanes that much. Cal had only 4 turnovers, and I can immediately think about the 2 silly mistakes that weren't due to CU at all.
The mistakes we seem REALLY prone to is getting the ball knocked away doing simple passes around the perimeter. Also the full court press.
Maybe Colorado just had a bad defensive game plan against us? I guess we'll see if we get sloppy against a good Oregon team. I'm really interested in how we do considering we stomped Santa Clara but Oregon (and Gonzaga?!) lost to them.
Your knowledge of basketball intricacies is so far beyond mine. I marvel that you can dissect so precisely plays that my limited brain sees only as a mad scramble. I think you are an amazing sportswriter because you try to educate your readers. 💕💙💕thank you for taking the time to do this.
Thank you Erlyn. About a decade ago, I taught high school for 2 years. I'm always trying to educate. We appreciate you participating in these discussions.
Love these breakdowns and I too noticed how Tyson reacted quickly and decisively to the double
“What I love about the play is Tyson’s total control of Colorado. He has been driving and dominating, eventually shooting a perfect 8-for-8 for the half, and anticipates the incoming double-team. When J’Vonne Hadley finally commits to the double team, Tyson immediately pulls the ball back out and passes it to Kennedy to rotate it over to Cone.“
This is helpful and timely. I often noticed that it looked like the CO players were just faster as they blew by our guys. But it's less that than what you point out here. I often struggle to tell when it is a called play, and when it is improv. I'd love some analysis of that. What is the called play? When is it mainly improv?
It seemed like there were a lot more than 2,258 in the stands on Wednesday.
It definitely got louder than what you'd expect for 2200 fans. But Cal fans tend to spread out when there is room around the sides.
The officials missed multiple false starts on that inbound but I'll take the Pac-12 refs making an error in our favor. They didn't even carry flags on them!
Appreciate the defensive context and explanation. Aimaq seems a step slow but it's good that we've either schemed around it or he's selflessly executing the defense as designed.
We took care of the ball well during this game. What do you think changed?
For taking care of the ball, I'm not sure there was one thing. But, CU's defensive assignments were interesting. For long stretches, they had 6' 8" Cody Williams guarding 5' 10" Jalen Cone. That left 6' 2" KJ Simpson and others to guard Tyson and the other wings. While this definitely limited Cone's ability to shoot off the dribble, they didn't disrupt the passing lanes that much. Cal had only 4 turnovers, and I can immediately think about the 2 silly mistakes that weren't due to CU at all.
Interesting.
The mistakes we seem REALLY prone to is getting the ball knocked away doing simple passes around the perimeter. Also the full court press.
Maybe Colorado just had a bad defensive game plan against us? I guess we'll see if we get sloppy against a good Oregon team. I'm really interested in how we do considering we stomped Santa Clara but Oregon (and Gonzaga?!) lost to them.
This is basketball, not football. The players can start moving anytime. There were no “offsides “
I think he was making a joking reference to my flanker screen description.
Yup. We needed a completion, not yardage. Tunnel screen was the perfect call.