Why the change in tempos?

[snake5040]

Last year we were a very up-tempo team with the likes of JP getting alley-oops early in the shot clock and driving up and down the court all day, but this year we want to slow it down, but why? We have depth but we want to cut it down to an 8-man rotation, when we could run balls out with a 10 or 11-man rotation and I think we would be more efficient in doing that. I don't about you guys but it seemed to me we cut out the tempo but kept the style the same. Just instead of driving it with 30 seconds left on the shot clock we did it with 5 seconds left, which gave us no chance for a dump-out restart. Just wandering what you guys thought about this.

 

[GAVol]

Haven't noticed much of a change. It's the same plodding flex offense.

 

[lylsmorr]

We don't have a JP Prince. That's why.

 

[madbamahater]

Maybe no faith in offensive rebounding? But we can't shoot either, so.................................?

 

[Cartervol]

These guys can't dribble half the time. Running up temp must be too much to handle. Seriously though, i think Tennessee is guilty of being a little too big on the perimeter, which has affected their ability to switch tempo's or be balanced. This is a half court team and we're finding out, apparently not a very good one.

 

[misplacedfan#1]

I think that if you have 9 or 10 people that you want to play then turn up the heat on them and go back to BP basketball. Press the enture game. Trust me that the other teams are going to get tired of it. It creates turnovers as well as runs down the other team in the last minutes of the game. They miss a couple of free throws and we turn that into dunks for sportscenter at the other end.

 

[volwarrior33]

Last year we relied on Prince and Maze a lot to penetrate and make entry passes. Maze was a good presence out there as well and made good decisions for the most part. Prince was responsible for almost all of our transition opportunities with deflections, steals and outlet passes.

But the biggest difference is the production from the paint. Chism was playing the four at the end of the season offensively. He did a lot of the same things as Harris and the two are probably very similar production wise. Chism brought the element of toughness. He was a player that played in 11 NCAA Tournament games, went up against Joakim Noah, Greg Oden, Al Horford, DeMarcus Cousins, JaJuan Johnson, Patrick Patterson, Joey Dorsey etc. We just don't have that this year.

 

[misplacedfan#1]

No we don't have that this year but we have 2 players that I think can be that person. That is Harris and Maymon. Harris has already got the offensive skill but lacks the strength that comes with playing with some of these bigger guys. Maymon has the strength but nowhere near the offense that Harris has. I knew we were going to miss chism but I didn't know that we were going to miss Prince this much. I thought that Tatum was going to fill those shoes nicely and he hasn't to this point.