Screening

[Da Coach]

Bradley's offense relies greatly on the high post screens set by the big men to help free up the guards for passing and shooting.

Last night, I thought the screens set by Sam Singh, Matt Salley, Theron Wilson, and others were great! Much better than they were at UIC, and maybe the best screening I have seen in a game yet. I am sure the team works a lot on this. They were called for "illegal screens" 5 times in Saturday's game, but I don't remember any illegal screen calls last night. Yes, the officials were much better, but so was the screening. I just wanted to cite the big guys for a job well done.

[Braveman]

Bradley's offense relies greatly on the high post screens set by the big men to help free up the guards for passing and shooting.

Last night, I thought the screens set by Sam Singh, Matt Salley, Theron Wilson, and others were great! Much better than they were at UIC, and maybe the best screening I have seen in a game yet. I am sure the team works a lot on this. They were called for "illegal screens" 5 times in Saturday's game, but I don't remember any illegal screen calls last night. Yes, the officials were much better, but so was the screening. I just wanted to cite the big guys for a job well done.

In general I agree DC- but David Collins especially is a bit scary on some of his because he doesn't hold it quite long enough. If indeed that is a point of emphasis this year, as is palming, the coaches will need to remind the post players of holding it for a 2 second count.

[mike radigan]

Our screening does need work. That said, last night the refs didn't "see" any moving screens. For if they did:

The little deal with the double foul was a long time coming. Jiri Hubalek kept setting a screen out high and instead of rolling to the basket would roll back and push Salley. The refs should have called a moving screen on him much earlier in the game and it would not have happened. They shook hands after the game.

[BU ICEMAN]

Now, defensively if we could just fix showing so much on screens so far from the basket....or was that fixed last night? Hard to see it while listening to the internet/radio call.....

[basketball nut]

Bradley's offense relies greatly on the high post screens set by the big men to help free up the guards for passing and shooting.

Last night, I thought the screens set by Sam Singh, Matt Salley, Theron Wilson, and others were great! Much better than they were at UIC, and maybe the best screening I have seen in a game yet. I am sure the team works a lot on this. They were called for "illegal screens" 5 times in Saturday's game, but I don't remember any illegal screen calls last night. Yes, the officials were much better, but so was the screening. I just wanted to cite the big guys for a job well done.

Coach, my impressions were that the screens were good but not great. We set screens but either the screen isn't great enough or our guards are way to slow as the defender was never really slowed down enough for our shooters to get the good shot off. JC only had 2 good looks coming off screens. We may have to go to double screens very similar to what Duke ( I know we don't want to hear about the Dukies, but they are good at running their offense) ran for Reddick and many others that were not that fast or maybe not that good of jumpers so they could get off their shots. We are going to have to do a lot of the same thing or JC is going to have a long year until our other players (meaning the inside game) really get going. If we can start to get some real good inside play and Wilson, Egolf, and others become more of scoring threat then it will free up JC and even Ruff more. Until then teams are going to always be putting a bigger guy on JC which is going to make it hard for him to score although that is a real measure of how good the other team really think he is.

[BU ICEMAN]

Coach, my impressions were that the screens were good but not great. We set screens but either the screen isn't great enough or our guards are way to slow as the defender was never really slowed down enough for our shooters to get the good shot off. JC only had 2 good looks coming off screens. We may have to go to double screens very similar to what Duke ( I know we don't want to hear about the Dukies, but they are good at running their offense) ran for Reddick and many others that were not that fast or maybe not that good of jumpers so they could get off their shots. We are going to have to do a lot of the same thing or JC is going to have a long year until our other players (meaning the inside game) really get going. If we can start to get some real good inside play and Wilson, Egolf, and others become more of scoring threat then it will free up JC and even Ruff more. Until then teams are going to always be putting a bigger guy on JC which is going to make it hard for him to score although that is a real measure of how good the other team really think he is.

Remember the guy who sets the screen is only half the equation, my old man and I whined all game at the UIC game because a lot of time, especially on the screens away from the ball, the screen receiver didn't rub off the screen and let their defender get between them....

[Da Coach]

The little deal with the double foul was a long time coming. Jiri Hubalek kept setting a screen out high and instead of rolling to the basket would roll back and push Salley. The refs should have called a moving screen on him much earlier in the game and it would not have happened. They shook hands after the game.

Hubalek had a tendency to catch the ball in the high post position, then raise his elbows up to shoulder height while he held the ball and swing those elbows side-to-side. Unfortunately, at that level, his elbows were at the same height as Matt Salley's chin, which took a couple bumps from Hubalek's elbow. I can't blame Matt for not liking that, and it is illegal to raise elbows and swing them around like that and make contact. Matt simply reacted after getting hit in the chin. Interesting that no foul was called until Matt reacted and shoved Hubalek. Then the refs called a double foul, even though Hubalek's fouls occurred several seconds before the whistle and likely would not have been called if Matt hadn't reacted.

[MacabreMob]

Nice post DC about the screening last night.

If Bradley wants to learn more about setting 2 to 3 screens to get the shooter open, they need to bust out some old film on the '05 UIUC team. They used moving screens to perfection.

The moving screens were only used 2 to 3 screens BEFORE the screen set for the shot. That final screen never moved. So with motion all over the floor by 2 or 3 screeners with 2-3 guards constantly moving.... you get wrapped up just trying to follow the ball... so 2-3 screens before a shot is taken, the screens seemed to release a little early and as if innocently the screener was just heading to another spot on the floor which got in the way of the defender trying to go around the screen.... after getting slowed down a split sec... whamo... somebody is wide open with a solid non-moving screen set in front of the shooter with plenty of time and room to get the shot off.

[basketball nut]

Nice post DC about the screening last night.

If Bradley wants to learn more about setting 2 to 3 screens to get the shooter open, they need to bust out some old film on the '05 UIUC team. They used moving screens to perfection.

The moving screens were only used 2 to 3 screens BEFORE the screen set for the shot. That final screen never moved. So with motion all over the floor by 2 or 3 screeners with 2-3 guards constantly moving.... you get wrapped up just trying to follow the ball... so 2-3 screens before a shot is taken, the screens seemed to release a little early and as if innocently the screener was just heading to another spot on the floor which got in the way of the defender trying to go around the screen.... after getting slowed down a split sec... whamo... somebody is wide open with a solid non-moving screen set in front of the shooter with plenty of time and room to get the shot off.

this is what I meant about gettin guys (especially JC & AW) open. We have to run those types of plays

[real fan]

Tom O"Neiil was the head official in last nights game and has done a lot of big time games in the NCAA; he let the teams play and did not hardly blow his whistle most of the game; once again Pollard makes a bad call as Crouch did not kick the ball on his steal and he was the only one to make a carrying the ball call against Cole-Scott; I only wish we could have more officials like Tom as they let the teams decide who would win the game and not turn it into a free throw shooting contest.