Will Wade's excuse for poor defense in the second half of the Kentucky game

BS, Kentucky missed a lot of open shots in the 1st half. They made them in the 2nd.

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High schoolers aren't confused about what their role is on both sides of the court much less just on defense.

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You must not watch HS Basketball.


His statement doesn't imply an excuse, FYI.

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High schoolers aren't confused about what their role is on both sides of the court much less just on defense

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You’re actually trying to suggest that high schoolers don’t get confused on assignments.......wow

It’s possible be critical of Wade without being a complete moron

WW obviously knows more basketball than me but I think they should press a little more. Speed the game up and not have to rely on positional defense as much. Seems like the team plays better when the game is sped up.

Although you'd probably have to go deeper than a 7 man rotation and that doesn't seem like something he likes to do.

You missed his point and if you listened to the presser after the game you could see what he’s talking about. When they are playing defense in front of the bench, the coaches do all the thinking. In the second half we have bad defenders who are getting exposed and the coaches can’t help. He said they work on it constantly but can’t make the players do it. If you say bench them, it gets worse. He did t sugar coat it nor call by name. That’s why he was so pissed at the end.

You didn’t give us the whole quote, which is typical of these types of posts. He went on to say how the players have more responsibility to communicate with each other when they’re on defense away from their bench in the second half and how well Kentucky was able to do that, unlike us.

It wasn’t an excuse—it was just pointing out something we don’t do well: communicate on defense.

Some players are morons, plain and simple.

I can remember two guys on my team that simply could not be good defenders. They were simply too stupid. For all the repetition we did, all the drills, all the coaching, and for them to still forget simple things like coming over from the backside when someone goes baseline, or remembering to hedge a pick or allow the defender to go under the pick depending on who had the ball, they simply couldn't remember and react in a timely fashion.

Some guys are just dumb, and there's no amount of coaching that will fix it. What helps in situations where you have an idiot on the defensive side, is when others know what they are supposed to be doing, and communication on the court is constantly happening. That's what's not happening on the court with LSU, and it's why Will Wade is saying this. He shouldn't have to be the guy reminding them of everything. There should be at least 2-3 guys on the court constantly talking and saying what's happening and what to do. One would expect that main person would be Skylar. It's important to have a coach on the court, and it doesn't seem like we have that.

In other words, he's getting seriously out coached.

if a coach can’t coach his team because they’re 40 feet away, there’s a serious problem.