Coach,
Naturally we are all curious how the limited practice is being used to develop the players.
Have practices so far identified some shooters who can use screens in the motion offense?
You are too young to remember watching Steve Alford and other great shooters at IU who drove the opposition nuts working for a shot then draining it. Love to see a shooter emerge who could do that. Making the other team work hard on defense for 30 seconds really can wear them down over the course of the game.
Have you got some big guys who can screen? Better yet, can they screen then become a scorer after the screen?
Have you found the newcomers able to understand and adapt to the defensive rules? Or are you able to see that without 5 on 5?
Is the team showing enough quickness to take advantage of the spacing on defense and play the passing lanes to get some steals?
Can you tell how good will help and recover be? Pat's teams at Texas Tech were quick but had a lot of problems trying to handle the talented players in the B12, hard to cover those good big guys and then stop the good shooters. Every team had a lights out shooter if you could not help and recover very well.
I know every team in the Knight system looks a little different and it is tailored to fit the talent. How is identifying the talents and thinking about how use them going? What seem to be likely strengths?
I thought last years team did fairly well in the system but that perhaps not the whole system was in use. I'm looking forward to seeing this team which is younger really benefit over time as they are taught from scratch and eventually have the principles ingrained.