Moving w/o the ball cont.
Posted on: February 18, 2019 at 13:07:20 CT
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FWIW: a long time ago a guy by the name of Bud Lathrop, fresh out of William Jewel, became the basketball coach at a Class S high school in Northwest Missouri and installed an man to man offense that required all five players to move more or less continuously and a zone offense that essentially had one or two players other than the guy handling the ball moving.
So, I don't buy the argument that college programs can't run offenses which are more than one guy dribbling and the other four standing and watching. Certainly, I wouldn't expect Mizzou or any college team to approach Golden State's proficiency at moving without the ball, but four statutes watching Geist trying to get off his shot isn't going to be very effective. Now if Geist had Kevin Durant's size and skills, . . ..