Typical. USA team basketball played a bit sloppy against Angola and Tunisia. Now, they're in the upper tier of tournament ball now and they are taking it easy against the lower-bracket basketball teams, even though Tunisia and Angola can give team USA a run for their money. Team USA really has a problem maintaining their focus and attention to winning ways when they want to approach basketball games. They need to maintain that focus every time they come to play basketball. They must not let down every time a basket is scored against them. The USA men's basketball team needs to take the defensive playbook from the Boston Celtics' swarming man-to-man defense and from Gregg Popovich's San Antonio Spurs. The USA men's basketball team can learn from the top defensive teams in the NBA, as well as from their opponents. They have managed to incorporate the play-defense-as-a-team philosophy with some success, but USA basketball management have always insisted on having a basketball star leading the squad. The USA men's basketball team has to fully engage themselves to commit to play defense as a team and score as a team, plus the bench.
International basketball competition has caught up on how USA men team basketball runs its basketball plays. Dribble, dribble, pass, dribble, dribble, and pass, then shoot. When I watch teams like Argentina, Angola, Serbia, Croatia, and Spain play, I saw all five members of the starting team play crisp ball. They do not drop their offensive and defensive assignments nonewhatsoever. They run, they dribble the basketball, all five starters can rebound, they can pass, they can defend the pick-and-roll, they can play man-to-man defense if they want to. The starters and the bench play together as a team, that is the key. One thing I have seen team USA get burned on a lot is the pick-and-roll between the point guard and the center.
They rotate late as the point man uses his quickness to score or pass if he sees an opening. Those USA basketball players need to get a hand on that ball once it leaves the point guard's hands. The point man will be able to see the open shooters on the court plus the screener, the center. He can decide to score if he wants to or give up his shot to an open teammate. This is the play team USA men's basketball always get burned on. If at all, team USA must help each other play defense if they are to defeat their international opponents at a blowout rate faster than my heart can beat. Team USA is relying on steals and individual player's defense to generate fast break points and offensive baskets. In conclusion, team USA can make little adjustments on their defensive end and tighten up their offense a bit. Then, they will succeed as being at the top of the world again. And again.
I don't know what you mean by "Dribble, dribble, pass, dribble, dribble, and pass, then shoot." It wasn't clear to me what you meant. Is Team USA supposed to play like that? But you also had sentences with clarity and poetry. I loved this one: "If at all, team USA must help each other play defense if they are to defeat their international opponents at a blowout rate faster than my heart can beat."
ReplyDeleteP.S. I think paragraphs will help readers a lot.