You can't be passive against a press, once you make the pass over half court against a 1-2-2/1-3-1, you have to attack the basket with numbers. Once you become passive after the pass across half court, they trap again, and either a turnover occurs, or by the time you get out of the trap and reset, you have ~10 seconds on the shot clock.
It wasn't turnovers that hurt us in the last 3 minutes (our last turnover was 3:10), it was the passiveness of handling the press and settling for a horrible shot at the end of the shot clock, and then giving up a quick basket (check the play by play, their last 5-6 baskets before the last 3, were within 5-6 secs of getting a rebound/made FT).
Sure, a true PG would help us, but against the 1-2-2/1-3-1 zone press, its a 2-guard offense with mostly passing and very little dribbling. It also helps to have taller guards to see better. I would have liked Pardon to come up more towards half court to get the pass when the trap took place just before half-court, and then he should look weak side for someone wide open. The few times we tried to pass it to him, he was too far away and the pass was deflected and/or stripped.
The press caused turnovers initially but it really got us out of sync with a short shot-clock. The good teams attack the press and capitalize on the 3 on 2/2 on 1 after breaking the press. Our guys were just relieved to make it past half court and set up the half court offense. We are athletic enough to attack, I hope to see more of that, instead of going into a shell.
It wasn't turnovers that hurt us in the last 3 minutes (our last turnover was 3:10), it was the passiveness of handling the press and settling for a horrible shot at the end of the shot clock, and then giving up a quick basket (check the play by play, their last 5-6 baskets before the last 3, were within 5-6 secs of getting a rebound/made FT).
Sure, a true PG would help us, but against the 1-2-2/1-3-1 zone press, its a 2-guard offense with mostly passing and very little dribbling. It also helps to have taller guards to see better. I would have liked Pardon to come up more towards half court to get the pass when the trap took place just before half-court, and then he should look weak side for someone wide open. The few times we tried to pass it to him, he was too far away and the pass was deflected and/or stripped.
The press caused turnovers initially but it really got us out of sync with a short shot-clock. The good teams attack the press and capitalize on the 3 on 2/2 on 1 after breaking the press. Our guys were just relieved to make it past half court and set up the half court offense. We are athletic enough to attack, I hope to see more of that, instead of going into a shell.