Fire Hop

2001400ex said:

ntxduck said:

2001400ex said:

ntxduck said:

bananasnblondes said:

I get the feeling Hop is gonna be a low ceiling, high floor kind of coach

Sounds like every other 2/3 team in cbb history

Good thing hop plays a 4/1 zone, not a 2/3.

Tomato tomatuh. You zone, you will give up open looks from 3. you run into a hot team from 3, you’re done. Not ideal when the championship is determined by a one and done format.

That's why hop runs a 4/1 zone. The weakness isn't the 3 pointer. It's getting in the backside on the baseline. Oregon State and that fuckhead Tinkle are great at it. Few was the first this year to expose it against us. Stewart is great at defending it. But watch the zone, all 4 are up at the three point line trying to force the high post shot.

Its not really a standard umbrella 4-1 either... Its really is its own amorphous system, even this year's zone is being different than last year.

When the ball is high in the middle its a tight 2-3

When the ball swings to the high wing its an augmented extended 1-3-1 where the top guard drops into the free throw line space

When the ball goes into the deep corner baseline we double trap

IMO the Zags being able to attack that backside baseline spot was a function of the wing defenders not playing the zone properly, not a function of the zone system itself. They regularly got caught way too high in an attempt to help the top guards and then were slow to drop into their proper lane (often too wide) after the "handoff" to the top guards occurred.