The weave

[anon_4htvdezyfe7k9]

It's been a while since I've played organized ball, so wanted to get any thoughts on this. What is the point of this play? My high school played against Marcus Camby's Hartford Public team in the state finals and ran this to eat as much clock as possible, but what is this accomplishing for us exactly????? Waste of energy of anything from what I've seen.

 

[Piratz]

Especially how often we run it!! We run like like a figure 8 instead of dropping off it and rotating low.

No clue.

 

[anon_4htvdezyfe7k9]

Thanks for the sanity check. And there was no shot clock in high school back then (not sure if there is now) so it made sense and we almost won using that strategy. I see no value to it now and it seems to bore the players and take them out of their natural game.

Thought we'd see less of this with the reduced shot clock duration, but again it appears our coach is too stubborn even when it comes to this.

 

[SnakeTom]

I don't understand it. It's a throwback to the offense Princeton ran before Pete Caril. I think it detracts from the athleticism of this team.

TK

 

[NYShoreGuy]

It's been a while since I've played organized ball, so wanted to get any thoughts on this. What is the point of this play? My high school team played against Marcus Camby's Hartford Public team in the state finals and ran this to eat as much clock as possible, but what is this accomplishing for us exactly????? Waste of energy of anything from what I've seen.

at my high school, the coach called this tease offense, get the ball in best ball handlers and free throw shooters and eventually go 1-4 flat or clear out or ball screen

 

[Seton75]

All it does is waste time and it also concentrates too many players in a small part of the court. A guard has the ball with a faceup one on one situation. Then we weave four times and a guard ends up in the same place. And how we do it is so predictable it can cause us some TOS like it did in the 2nd half vs Wagner. It would have made sense to do it in bg's 1st b year cause our roster was short and weak, but that year we ran. You can't make it up.

 

[Piratz]

We have a ton of lateral movement with it. Bizarre. I can only imagine he thinks it's getting guys moving and touching the ball and thinking that gets them back in the flow, which would be ironic considering that play leaves us stagnant, LOL.

 

[Vegas pj]

I don't understand it. It's a throwback to the offense Princeton ran before Pete Caril. I think it detracts from the athleticism of this team.

TK

It's KW's secret offense. Goes hand in hand with his lock down defensive schemes.

 

[SPK145]

It sets up the pick-and-hope rather nicely.

 

[HallBall02]

I agree the weave offense is mostly a waste of energy for the guys at the top of key. I would rather they just run the high school version of the stack offense and just pick away from the ball then this.

Really though, every smart big east coach will just play zone defense against us so I hope we are working on that in practice ALOT

 

[Vegas pj]

I thought this thread was going to announce breaking news that KW was getting a hair weave to give him a new look.

 

[Shuathelete]

you have to be a moron to run that for more than one game, let alone years. its a white flag that screams "i have absolutely no idea what im doing"

 

[Vegas pj]

Maybe he's auditioning for his next head coaching job - Harlem Globetrotters.

 

[Stevie_H]

It's been a while since I've played organized ball, so wanted to get any thoughts on this. What is the point of this play? My high school team played against Marcus Camby's Hartford Public team in the state finals and ran this to eat as much clock as possible, but what is this accomplishing for us exactly????? Waste of energy of anything from what I've seen.

Danbury? If I recall correctly. I played against that Pub team three times that year. Aside from Camby they had Kendrick Moore who went to Mizzou and finished at Providence. Tavarr Closs was a mountain that could move and ended up being a first team all-american OT at Uconn, then had a cup of coffee in the NFL. They had a bunch of other very good HS level players (some DII and III types). Easily the best HS team CT has seen since then and probably before too.

 

[anon_4htvdezyfe7k9]

New milford. But yea, Kendrick Moore was on that team too.

Do you remember Anthony Harris aka "Snake" from Danbury? I think he was a top 25ish recruit who went to Syracuse for a year. He basically let himself get out of shape before transferring to Hawaii where he ended up having a decent career if I recall correctly.

I remember him showing up at the playground with a brand new sports car soon after committing to Cuse.

 

[anon_4htvdezyfe7k9]

Danbury? If I recall correctly. I played against that Pub team three times that year. Aside from Camby they had Kendrick Moore who went to Mizzou and finished at Providence. Tavarr Closs was a mountain that could move and ended up being a first team all-american OT at Uconn, then had a cup of coffee in the NFL. They had a bunch of other very good HS level players (some DII and III types). Easily the best HS team CT has seen since then and probably before too.

For the record I was not on the team that played Camby. I noticed my OP may have implied I was so I edited it. By JV I was relegated to about 5 mins/ game so that was it for me. And I wouldn't have sniffed the roster of any Danbury teams. They were pretty stacked most years.