St. Francis showed flat and went under ball-screens and did a great job...
...guarding the quick duck in's which were clearly part of the game plan coming in. Young's adjustment was essentially to get away from those things and run some other sets. Instead of creating advantages off of ball-screens with shooters VT created advantages by spreading SFU out utilizing flare screens and sets that relied on screening flatter to the baseline and letting guys beat their man or, a few times, using what's called "stampede" action and drawing the defense up and then quick swinging it for a rip into a drive. When VT did ball-screen to attack in the second half the screens were wide and shallow and typically in transition.
I think Mike Young does a fantastic job of diagnosing actions a team will struggle to guard and then hitting them over the head with those things and in this game that happened in the second half though more as a result of just not running the things that weren't working. Credit to SFU for identifying what VT would try to do and taking it away, just didn't have the bodies or talent to handle the next set of things they'd have to guard.
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Posted: 11/19/2021 at 12:49AM