Erik 'I Wanna Be The Hero' Stevenson...Run The Damn Play: UW 76 UCLA 81
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Tequilla said:
Your reading comprehension is as bad as your GIF gameIceManLikeGervin said:Tequilla said:This thread title tells you everything you need to know about the original poster
“Run The Damn Play” ...
The play was a down screen for Quade to hopefully be able to catch and shoot on a curl action
The screen actually isn’t bad and there’s some space to get the pass to Quade but the defender does a great job of recovering putting the pass in a tight time window for success. The more telling action here is that Hameir is WIDE OPEN by himself in the corner. Good lesson here in watching hoops is pay attention to how often the screener actually finds himself open.
The original poster would try to tell you here that Stevenson was trying to be a hero and didn’t run the play. From my perspective, that’s not really what happened ...
One thing is pretty clear watching this clip is that Stevenson doesn’t have great handles. The ball often is stuck to him in ways that make it difficult for him to make timely passes ... which is why the design of the play to Quade failed. Also important to note that Hameir’s man initially shows as part of a loose double that allowed Stevenson’s man to recover at an able that disrupts the timing of the pass to Quade. Once Stevenson missed the timing of the pass to Quade combined with Stevenson’s inability to get the ball out from under him to make a skip pass to Hameir, the play was effectively destroyed.
Once the play broke down and you start looking at the options you realize how poorly coached the team is. Instead of aggressively cutting to a spot to get the ball Quade fairly passively clears to the wing to create space. Bey and Tsohonis are basically non factors in every way possible (no movement, don’t appear to be ready to shoot, etc). So effectively at that point you’re down to 1 on 1 play and doing so with a guy that doesn’t really look to have the skills to create open space for himself or others. All things being considered the look he got was far closer than I would have expected given the title.
In the end, this play is a great example of everything wrong in the program. The design of the initial play was fine but overly simplified such that UCLA was able to adequately defend without too much of a problem. When the initial action broke down the lack of basketball IQ within the players to get themselves out of it showed as everybody looked around. And finally, there’s clear mismanagement by the staff in that there’s got to be a secondary design to the play given the time remaining. Perhaps the secondary element was Hameir but that’s probably less than ideal for a number of reasons. The right play in that situation is a couple of actions to get a clean look at 3 (Stevenson and Quade) and if they aren’t there is to have Hameir cutting to the hoop (easier pass for Stevenson) and you get the quick 2.
Just poor poor poor design by the staff and mediocre at best execution by the players involved
Quade Green was open at the top of the key area even the game announcers noticed that tenable fact. You can watch the above linked video to see that fact for yourself and hear the game announcers comment to the very same effect.
Stevenson could have easily made the pass to Green but he decided for whatever reason(s) to shoot a hero ball shot instead. Mike Hopkins was seen visibly having an intense discussion with Erik Stevenson until the end of the game concerning his decision to shoot that hero ball shot.
The UW didn't even need a three point shot, especially one from that extra deep distance, at the time. They could have gotten a higher percentage two point shot attempt off then played the foul game.
Mike Hopkins, who mismanaged that last timeout and was barely able to get the decided upon play communicated to his team with Quade screaming for the play as the refs called the teams back onto the court, choked under the pressure as well.
1) My initial comments noted that Quade had a window of being open. It also noted that Quade’s defender made a solid recovery into position as well as Stevenson’s defender hedging against the reverse action of a pass (solid IQ play there. Add all of that to some real obvious lack of handles and awareness from Stevenson and you get a missed opportunity to get Quade the ball.
2) Stevenson made a poor decision and I’ve got no issue calling it that. At the end of the day his poor decision was driven by poor original execution on the play combined with stagnant movement after the play broke down. Hop can have as many discussions as he wants but the reality is the play drawn up was basic at best and nobody gave Stevenson any alternative options to work with. Part of basketball is how do you react when the play you want to run gets broken down. The reality is that this roster has few players capable of making plays in this situation ... and that’s on Hop.
3) Read the bottom of my comment criticizing the poor play design given that with the ball out on the side with 20+ seconds you should be running a couple of quick actions for good looks from 3 with the ability to take an easy 2 built in.
4) How many different ways do I need to spell out that Hop drew up a downright piss poor play and the execution by his players a testament to whatever coaching they are getting?
Thanks for telling me in effect that I’m an idiot and then literally agree with everything I said fucktard
