re: The Real Reason for BBall Shortcomings

We have been a bad free throw team almost forever. Even when we had Chris Jackson who was like 90% rest of team was bad, No clue why.

But this guy has it nailed.


There are going to be nights where the ball just doesn't go down on offense. Last night was one of those nights. However, you can overcome those nights and grind out wins if you can keep the opponent from scoring. LSU can't. If this team was even just marginally better on defense, they find a way to win the game last night (even with the FT woes). If you are horrible on defense though (and LSU is) you rarely can afford to have a bad night on offense


When I coached kids basketball I taught fundamentals and great attacking no quarter defense. Defense is about effort, desire not just skill, and often translates to better effort on offense. Like you just pointed out u cant always hit the side of the barn on offense and even great players will have off nights but you can always play great defense, and every player can contribute.

Results, a coach with no experience with teams equal in skill because of skill assigned lottery, (Players were assigned not picked) and we were almost unbeatable year after year and usually blew everyone out. Everyone though I was some sort of ringer coach. I spent two hours watching videos and a hour or so on study in 5 seasons. That is the power of great defense

The Chicago Bulls didn't start willing Championships with Jordan, they started winning when Jordan and the rest of the parts came together to play great defense. Then they were unbeatable.