Pearl on Defense

#31
#31
Controlled chaos is fun to watch when you have a team that can play it without giving up easy baskets.

Oh well.
 
#33
#33
fromtheparkinglot said:
Does Pearl deserve any credit for adapting his style of play due to last year's success?
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Yes, he does. He finally realized that playing gimmick basketball doesn't win anything of significance. My posts weren't poking fun at Pearl; they were poking fun at those that built up "controlled chaos" as being some revolutionary form of basketball when it's not.
 
#35
#35
LawVol13 said:
Yes, he does. He finally realized that playing gimmick basketball doesn't win anything of significance. My posts weren't poking fun at Pearl; they were poking fun at those that built up "controlled chaos" as being some revolutionary form of basketball when it's not.
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It's tough to tell whom is in your crosshairs sometimes.

Pearl deserves credit and would be foolish to go back to the style of play that lost to a lesser Ok St team in the first round. He's been foolish enough for a lifetime the last two years, apparently. Hopefully this style change is a harbinger of things to come with him.
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#37
#37
Velo Vol said:
Controlled chaos is fun to watch when you have a team that can play it without giving up easy baskets.

Oh well.
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Any time you press or play an "on the line up the line" type of pressure defense a lot you are going to give up some dunks.
 
#38
#38
Volstylexx said:
good news !
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#39
#39
JZVOL said:
Any time you press or play an "on the line up the line" type of pressure defense a lot you are going to give up some dunks.
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And you are going to get some turnovers, what's your point. Perfect move with this team. Controlled chaos was perfect for his first few years with smaller guards, but with a team that has a lot of wingspan and athleticism it's smarter to play half-court D with an occasional trap.
 
#40
#40
tvols75 said:
And you are going to get some turnovers, what's your point. Perfect move with this team. Controlled chaos was perfect for his first few years with smaller guards, but with a team that has a lot of wingspan and athleticism it's smarter to play half-court D with an occasional trap.
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My point is any coach who plays a pressure defense knows you are going to give up some easy buckets in order to get those turnovers, so it (a few easy buckets) really isn't a big deal.

That and Williams can't run up and down and Hopson and Tatum are terrible on D.
 
#41
#41
You have to be able to play in the half-court to win in March. It's as simple as that. Anyone who argues otherwise....no comment.
 
#42
#42
I still hope we press after made free throws. We may have given up a few fast breaks, but we have created more turnovers the way we pressure the inbounds pass than we have given up breakaways. I think Fields is a PERFECT person to put on the ball too. With his wing span and jumping ability... he is a weapon of mass distraction!

I used to laugh so hard at the way Wayne would pressure the ball and start screaming 5! 5! 5! When the ref was at 2... lol

Wayne will be missed so much... I think equally for his personality as his on court performances... not to mention the headband
 
#45
#45
LawVol13 said:
Yes, he does. He finally realized that playing gimmick basketball doesn't win anything of significance.
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Tennessee never really played "gimmick" basketball. If they hadn't forced tempo those first couple of years, they wouldn't have won many games. They had no height at all.

Pearl and Shay are very good at scouting and game-prepping. They quite often throw just enough wrinkles in, on both ends of the floor, to make UT a difficult and annoying preparation.

The press is one of those things. In-bounds denial is another, and varying how they deal with on-ball screens is yet another.

They're not "gimmicks," though. They may be only marginally effective when Tennessee is overmatched anyway, but the alternative is...what? Just concede the other team has more talent and get beat?

Now that Tennessee has the talent to compete with just about anybody, we don't have to pull a rabbit out of our hat. Pearl still likes to do unpredictable things, but they don't have to be so high-risk anymore, and of course he recognizes that.
 
#46
#46
StepCross said:
Tennessee never really played "gimmick" basketball. If they hadn't forced tempo those first couple of years, they wouldn't have won many games. They had no height at all.

Pearl and Shay are very good at scouting and game-prepping. They quite often throw just enough wrinkles in, on both ends of the floor, to make UT a difficult and annoying preparation.

The press is one of those things. In-bounds denial is another, and varying how they deal with on-ball screens is yet another.

They're not "gimmicks," though. They may be only marginally effective when Tennessee is overmatched anyway, but the alternative is...what? Just concede the other team has more talent and get beat?

Now that Tennessee has the talent to compete with just about anybody, we don't have to pull a rabbit out of our hat. Pearl still likes to do unpredictable things, but they don't have to be so high-risk anymore, and of course he recognizes that.
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They are absolutely gimmicks. Pearl's entire system was a gimmick. He didn't do it out of necessity his first couple of seasons here. He did it because that's what he had done his entire career; he just found out here that it wins nothing of significance.

As for your little spill about varying how they handle ball screens. They switch every screen because they have been incapable of teaching how to hedge and recover.
 
#47
#47
LawVol13 said:
They are absolutely gimmicks. Pearl's entire system was a gimmick. He didn't do it out of necessity his first couple of seasons here. He did it because that's what he had done his entire career; he just found out here that it wins nothing of significance.

As for your little spill about varying how they handle ball screens. They switch every screen because they have been incapable of teaching how to hedge and recover.
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How many times do I have to address this BS of the "controlled chaos" not working? One point from the Elite 8 with this system in 2007 against a loaded Ohio State team was essentially the same as the one possession win this year. As I have said, it's a matter of personnel and what fits. It hasn't fit lately, but it certainly did a few years ago with that lineup.
 
#48
#48
Unimane said:
How many times do I have to address this BS of the "controlled chaos" not working? One point from the Elite 8 with this system in 2007 against a loaded Ohio State team was essentially the same as the one possession win this year. As I have said, it's a matter of personnel and what fits. It hasn't fit lately, but it certainly did a few years ago with that lineup.
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Right, and who recruits the personnel? And who has run the gimmick system for about 17 of his 18 years coaching? It's not like he just changes it up every year based on the personnel. He has finally realized that to go to the next level, it requires more than a High School Level 1-2-1-1. Kudos to him for that.
 
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LawVol13 said:
Right, and who recruits the personnel? And who has run the gimmick system for about 17 of his 18 years coaching? It's not like he just changes it up every year based on the personnel. He has finally realized that to go to the next level, it requires more than a High School Level 1-2-1-1. Kudos to him for that.
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So, he was telling Buzz who to recruit? Getting to the next level requires elite talent more than anything regarding stylistic changes. Running your supposed superior preferences didn't do anything greater for the program than had been done previously. And, if you think he was just running a simple diamond press, then you weren't really paying attention.
 
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#50
Unimane said:
So, he was telling Buzz who to recruit? Getting to the next level requires elite talent more than anything regarding stylistic changes. Running your supposed superior preferences didn't do anything greater for the program than had been done previously. And, if you think he was just running a simple diamond press, then you weren't really paying attention.
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We had good talent this past year. Do you think we would have made it to the Elite Eight playing gimmick ball?

That's exactly what he was doing. He had a couple variations in how he denied the inbounds versus directing the pass into a trap, but those that act as if that is some sort of revolutionary press have no clue (not sure if that's what you're saying or not).
 
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