The girls that came in understood what I needed from them. They got up in the passing lanes, were dropping back and trapping the basketball and doing a better job of just running one set.
Quotes about trapping (16 Quotes)
Once again, we're ahead of New York State. In the Town of Huntington it is strictly prohibited to use any type of trapping and it's been that way for quite some time. It is against our code. We will defend our code that it's against the law to discharge a firearm simply because it is strictly a matter of public safety.
They fought to the end. We had some breakdowns, but they also shot the ball about as well as they could shoot it. We were trapping, we were going with the idea that if they rely on shooting 3s we're all right, and they knocked them down. Give them credit for that.
It was clear to see. (Duffy) did a good job of trapping the ball.
They stepped up their defense and started trapping. We just weren't strong with the ball, but we got the job done. Was I worried Yeah, but it never got to the point where we completely lost control.
We saw a lot more full-court pressure than we were used to seeing in the Big East, a lot of different presses, a lot of different trapping defenses, just up-and-down transition part of the game. It's nice that we got to work on some of those things.
We have officers in those areas. We are still trapping. We have to assume that we might not have the bear we want. Until we can positively identify that bear, we are going to assume we don't have it.
We defended for 16 minutes as well as we can defend. We didn't do a whole lot of trapping. It was just solid, half-court, man-to-man defense. The kids did a great job.
Their defense was certainly stifling. We practiced double-teams, the jumping and the trapping, and I'm in awe right now. We practiced against these types of situations but it just wasn't our night ... they just played better than us.
The great thing about having a game like this is being able to try different things. We worked on our full-court pressure, both man and trapping. We also tried some of the things we haven't used too much this season just to take a look at them.
Later, when the coyotes came into this area, he got a license and started trapping coyotes. One year, he trapped 15 coyotes near his house. The coyotes had taken over so much of the land where there used to be rabbit, mink, fox and pheasant. He saw it as keeping the balance in nature a bit. He'd go out in the early morning and be gone eight hours. My mother would call and say, 'It's getting dark out,' and he'd come strolling in.
We went to some full court trapping to create a little bit more tempo to try to beat them up and down the floor, because they were sitting on us pretty good in the zone. What we really focused on was moving our posts up a little bit in the offense against the zone and looking to skip the ball to the weak side. We ended up getting three or four threes out of it and went on an 11-0 run and that was huge.
He definitely has proved why all the accolades have been thrown his way. He took over that game single-handedly. Unfortunately, we didn't have an answer. You can't do anything in terms of trapping or double-teaming him. Three-quarters of his points were off missed shots where he just wanted it more. For a coach that appreciates effort on the glass as much as I do, that was as an impressive performance as I've seen.
I'm sure with the schedule they've played and everybody gunning for them, they've seen every junk defense possible. We're just going to stick to our style of play, which is pressing and running and trapping whenever possible.
First and foremost, we'll have to take care of the ball. Greeneville plays an aggressive man-to-man defense, then jumps into a 1-3-1 trapping zone.
They had an excellent half-court trapping defense. We didn't adjust to them very well.