[TheFarm07]

[quote author=TheFarm07 link=topic=14458.msg154043#msg154043 date=1453528860]
Please tell me how our uptempo offense only led to 57 points? I think we need booster rockets to get to 60 points these days

The uptempo offense referred to faster and longer passes.  Unfortunately, a number of them sailed out of bounds.  Tara has commented on how Kerr doesn't worry about turnovers.  This is a hard lesson for her.  She instinctively wants to slow the game down and take care of the ball.  But I do think a slow-paced game may destroy the offensive rhythm of the players.
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I am not much of a basketball strategist, but it seems like just attempting longer and faster passes are not an end to itself.  You mentioned exhausting the US.C team using this tactic, given we had a deeper bench.  But within an offensive scheme, isn't the different nature of the passes designed to try to exploit possible openings/mismatches so that we can get into a better position to shoot the ball more often or push tempo down the court before the defense sets up, hence enabling us to attempt more shots and thus, hopefully put more points on the board?

Because in my head (and again I'm not a basketball mastermind), by making longer and faster passes without changing anything else, aren't you adding more risk without any added reward?

[TheFarm07]

[quote author=TheFarm07 link=topic=14458.msg154043#msg154043 date=1453528860]
Please tell me how our uptempo offense only led to 57 points? I think we need booster rockets to get to 60 points these days

The uptempo offense referred to faster and longer passes.  Unfortunately, a number of them sailed out of bounds.  Tara has commented on how Kerr doesn't worry about turnovers.  This is a hard lesson for her.  She instinctively wants to slow the game down and take care of the ball.  But I do think a slow-paced game may destroy the offensive rhythm of the players.
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I am not much of a basketball strategist, but it seems like just attempting longer and faster passes are not an end to itself.  You mentioned exhausting the US.C team using this tactic, given we had a deeper bench.  But within an offensive scheme, isn't the different nature of the passes designed to try to exploit possible openings/mismatches so that we can get into a better position to shoot the ball more often or push tempo down the court before the defense sets up, hence enabling us to attempt more shots and thus, hopefully put more points on the board?

Because in my head (and again I'm not a basketball mastermind), by making longer and faster passes without changing anything else, aren't you adding more risk without any added reward?