re: The Advocate - Will Wade on defense

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He has two resources at his disposal: John Brady - his teams had no offense, but they could play defense. Dale Brown - bring back the triangle and two or diamond defense or whatever it was he would use occasionally that would really stymie opponents.

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Well, both those coaches' teams played better defense than this one. They certainly were flawed coaches, but they could get their teams to play better defense than Will Wade's teams.

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and the FOUR CORNERS... worked very well, except at times it was instituted much early in the game than needed.

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I still can't believe we blew that 12-9 halftime lead (or whatever it was) against North Carolina.

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Well, both those coaches' teams played better defense than this one. They certainly were flawed coaches, but they could get their teams to play better defense than Will Wade's teams.

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without a doubt...not even close.
anyone downvoting is a youngster crapping on Dale and never saw LSU play D under Dale....
one may be able to criticize the Xs and Os...
but the D and the "effort" NEVER.

should look up games like LSU - MEMPHIS and LSU-KY in 1986 .. check out youtube. # 11 defeated # 1 and # 3

You dont think winning the sec last year was getting it done?

I mean he has had what, 2 players leave early from LSU?

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You dont think winning the sec last year was getting it done?

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he gets a salary every year...
while I do not expect him to be THE CHAMP each year,
I expect obvious flaws to be corrected...
THE ROLE OF A GOOD COACH

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I think wade being heavy into analytics plays a role.

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Absolutely. Not that using the analytics is a bad thing, but sometimes being so married to them can hurt you. I have no doubt in my mind whatsoever that Wade is over-prepared. There is nothing he does with his program that doesn't involved great forethought. But you also have to be able to adjust to what your players can do. His scouting reports may be so detailed as to know what an opponent likes to eat for breakfast before a game. But if your guys are too busy thinking about every intricate detail of every player instead of simply just reacting, that doesn't really help.

Perhaps other teams he's been a part of are more adept at absorbing a detailed game plan and executing it on the court. But if this particular team isn't (for whatever reason) then simplify things. What you are doing right now isn't working. But the GREAT thing is there is still time to adjust and there is not a large amount of adjustment that seems to be necessary. As Wade said, 10-15% better is really all you need.

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'm actually all for this. I thought the amount of different things we tried to do defensively became a little taxing.

One possession we would be in a 2-3, then the next we're in man, then the next we're in a full court press.

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it's not taxing to teach a couple defenses and a press. Hell, we did that in middle school.

Plus, changing defenses during the game confuses the offense. Dale Brown did that all the time, with his "freak" defense. It changed, in real-time. (And Dale wasn't a great x-and-o guy, but the freak defense worked).

ETA: I may be completely wrong about this, but nobody really knew what the freak defense was. I thought I recall Dale explain years later that it was a zone if the offense started their offensive possession on the left side of the floor, and a man-to-man if the offense started on the right. I'm sure there were other nuances, but I believe that's what it was, in its simplest form. So it was confusing as hell to the offense, who never figured out what was happening.

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Plus, changing defenses during the game confuses the offense. Dale Brown did that all the time, with his "freak" defense. It changed, in real-time. (And Dale wasn't a great x-and-o guy, but the freak defense worked).

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correct on the his Ds and on his Xs and Os...
he could pressure teams.