One of the things that struck me last season was that the Cats don't make much use of the drive and kick as part of their regular offense.
That seems a bit strange to me, given that we've lacked guys who can get to the rim easily, but have had several players who can knock down open threes the past few seasons. I'm a Celtics fan, so I've spent a lot of time watching Brad Stevens' offense execute this play incredibly well.
Anyway, I wanted to make sure I was remembering correctly, so I found some tape to review from the Brown game last season.
This isn't a full game, but during the video the team only runs one successful drive and kick play (at 5:08), and it doesn't look designed. There are a couple others (at 2:50 and 4:05) that both lead to turnovers. In all three plays, the kick is more of just a bail out, dumping the ball back to the top of the key rather than dishing it to an open player for a corner 3.
Has anyone else noticed the absence of this play, or seen any more use of it later in the season that I missed? Any thoughts on why the coaches might not want to run it? I'm wondering if they'd need Pardon to be able to hit threes to be able to run it effectively. Seems like he could just swing it if that were the main problem, though.
That seems a bit strange to me, given that we've lacked guys who can get to the rim easily, but have had several players who can knock down open threes the past few seasons. I'm a Celtics fan, so I've spent a lot of time watching Brad Stevens' offense execute this play incredibly well.
Anyway, I wanted to make sure I was remembering correctly, so I found some tape to review from the Brown game last season.
This isn't a full game, but during the video the team only runs one successful drive and kick play (at 5:08), and it doesn't look designed. There are a couple others (at 2:50 and 4:05) that both lead to turnovers. In all three plays, the kick is more of just a bail out, dumping the ball back to the top of the key rather than dishing it to an open player for a corner 3.
Has anyone else noticed the absence of this play, or seen any more use of it later in the season that I missed? Any thoughts on why the coaches might not want to run it? I'm wondering if they'd need Pardon to be able to hit threes to be able to run it effectively. Seems like he could just swing it if that were the main problem, though.