Hey VIc

[ezsoil]

How many layups are you going to give up before you ever think of going to a zone ?

 

[Leeshouldveflanked]

Vic will never go to a Zone.... UGA’s guards are quicker than ours

 

[civildawg88]

It's craziness

 

[oh yeah]

We’ve done better the last few minutes and big t is staying in the lane and not guarding the 3 point line. It really doesn’t seem like rocket science.

 

[patdog]

No way this team goes to the Final Four unless Vic changes his defensive philosophy. Too easy for a good team to pull T out and drive past our guards.

 

[PineGroveBully]

I heard an interview last year around final four time where he pretty much all but said he'd never play one at state. Something to the extend of "ppl in Starkville fell in love with his teams 3-4 years earlier bc of how they got after it on defense so that was what he was gonna give them." Now I prefer an aggressive man to man D but why eliminate an arrow from your quiver? I'd like to see what this team looked like in short stretches of surprise 1-3-1 halfcourt press with Howard out top alas Vincent from back in the day.

 

[Len2003]

How in the hell did we get the two coaches who won't play a zone? He actually did have them in a 2-3 zone once this season against one of those bum teams we played. But it disappeared after that.

 

[pmack65]

Well we got one of them because he knew what the hell he was doing, evidence by his making MSU womens BB elite and not listening people who couldn't dribble and chew gum at the same time, especially on this board. The other one who's proven record has shown he can win and seems to be trending again in that direction. My suggestion is this, since a vast number of posters seem to know more about BB then these two coaches I recommend that you get some balls, go to a practice and tell them how they should coach. Good luck with that ha

 

[MSUDC11]

We clearly made an adjustment toward the end tonight because Georgia didn’t make a field goal in the last six plus minutes of the game after they couldn’t miss for three quarters.

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

No way this team goes to the Final Four unless Vic changes his defensive philosophy. Too easy for a good team to pull T out and drive past our guards.

Vic has been to a couple of National Championship games... tell me how many you have coached?

 

[Len2003]

We clearly made an adjustment toward the end tonight because Georgia didn’t make a field goal in the last six plus minutes of the game after they couldn’t miss for three quarters.

I noticed that T stayed in the lane more.

 

[She Mate Me]

Vic has been to a couple of National Championship games... tell me how many you have coached?

It's actually better than that. He's been to 4 Final Fours as a HC or Asst HC, 3 NC games and won one. But thank goodness he has help from the sixpack to figure this **** out.

 

[tenureplan]

Preach

 

[patdog]

I'll coach as many as he will this year if he doesn't keep McCowan in the paint on defense.

 

[preacher_dawg]

Preach

Yes?

 

[ezsoil]

We clearly made an adjustment toward the end tonight because Georgia didn’t make a field goal in the last six plus minutes of the game after they couldn’t miss for three quarters.

well I stand corrected...he did keep T in the lane and that made all the difference in the world .....it doesn't need to be a full blown zone just make an adjustment and the force them to react...

 

[She Mate Me]

I'll coach as many as he will this year if he doesn't keep McCowan in the paint on defense.

I'm not sure why he's so insistent using her in a way that doesn't seem natural. I believe he's got a reason that has more to do with what she may have to do to get us by a UConn or Baylor or ND, but I can't say for sure. I don't think he's doing it because he is stubborn. He's trying to figure something out for how we play against the best teams.

 

[tbaydog]

Hardly any team can consistently shoot 70% from the field in the 4th.

 

[maroonmania]

Uh, that would be a reason you would go to zone. If you can't stay in front of the player you are defending in man to man a zone is the better solution. The other issue I had was McCowan following her player out to the top of the key on defense and then we let the Georgia guards just go in for layups with nobody in there to help defend.

 

[maroonmania]

I heard an interview last year around final four time where he pretty much all but said he'd never play one at state. Something to the extend of "ppl in Starkville fell in love with his teams 3-4 years earlier bc of how they got after it on defense so that was what he was gonna give them." Now I prefer an aggressive man to man D but why eliminate an arrow from your quiver? I'd like to see what this team looked like in short stretches of surprise 1-3-1 halfcourt press with Howard out top alas Vincent from back in the day.

I think people in Starkville will love anything that wins. And nobody would think that we should go to a zone as our base defense but switching things up every now and then can really mess up an opposing team.

 

[dog12]

I think people in Starkville will love anything that wins. And nobody would think that we should go to a zone as our base defense but switching things up every now and then can really mess up an opposing team.

THIS.

Maybe Coach is saving the 2-3 zone D for when we really need to surprise someone . . . in the National Championship game.

 

[operch]

Methinks he wants these girls to understand that defense is a, state of mind, contrary to what the body wants to do. Big T can defend the pick and roll, if she can get her mind to get her body to do it. She looks like she has bad feet because that is what her mind tells her body to do. Pop out on the guard then get back down the lane. Get the lead out, And that goes to both Big T and the other girl working the pick and roll. Get the lead out.