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Not a ringing endorsement for our offense. I really wish our offense was based more on passing rather than dribbling. The ball would move faster, causing us to get more open looks. Bob Knight recently talked about running practices where the ball never touches the floor.
 
Not a ringing endorsement for our offense. I really wish our offense was based more on passing rather than dribbling. The ball would move faster, causing us to get more open looks. Bob Knight recently talked about running practices where the ball never touches the floor.
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Phil Greene wouldn't know what to do with a practice like that.
 
Bob Knight recently talked about running practices where the ball never touches the floor.
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I saw Princeton play in the NCAA Tournament in Hartford CT back in 1998. They beat UNLV that day, and I swear the ball moved around the court faster than a speeding bullet and never touched the floor.
 
Not a ringing endorsement for our offense. I really wish our offense was based more on passing rather than dribbling. The ball would move faster, causing us to get more open looks. Bob Knight recently talked about running practices where the ball never touches the floor.
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Bobby knight also talked about the best attack of a zone is to dribble in not pass into it.
 
Watchable for defensive swats, but not offensively. I love Sampson, but I have never seen a ball rattle around in suspense on a rim so often as when he shoots it. Even if it goes in, it's usually 5 seconds of terror. He seems to be getting more smooth swishes, but he has had a ton of in and outs as well.
 
Watchable for defensive swats, but not offensively. I love Sampson, but I have never seen a ball rattle around in suspense on a rim so often as when he shoots it. Even if it goes in, it's usually 5 seconds of terror. He seems to be getting more smooth swishes, but he has had a ton of in and outs as well.
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Maybe you just have a slow TV.
 
Not a ringing endorsement for our offense. I really wish our offense was based more on passing rather than dribbling. The ball would move faster, causing us to get more open looks. Bob Knight recently talked about running practices where the ball never touches the floor.
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Bobby knight also talked about the best attack of a zone is to dribble in not pass into it.
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If you can find a reference, I'd like to see it. It appears to me to possibly be a quote taken out of context. Perhaps he said, penetrate, and when the zone collapses, dish to the open perimeter man. Generally speaking, what I've always heard, been taught, and taught, is that the ball can be passed faster than the defense can move, and the goal is to find seems in the zone without trying to have to shoot over it.
 
Not a ringing endorsement for our offense. I really wish our offense was based more on passing rather than dribbling. The ball would move faster, causing us to get more open looks. Bob Knight recently talked about running practices where the ball never touches the floor.
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Bobby knight also talked about the best attack of a zone is to dribble in not pass into it.
Click to expand...

If you can find a reference, I'd like to see it. It appears to me to possibly be a quote taken out of context. Perhaps he said, penetrate, and when the zone collapses, dish to the open perimeter man. Generally speaking, what I've always heard, been taught, and taught, is that the ball can be passed faster than the defense can move, and the goal is to find seems in the zone without trying to have to shoot over it.
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That the "ball can be passed faster than the defense" has a chance to set up is as old as Naismith. Bobby Knight did not invent it.
Every fast break, both in games, and in practices is based on that old principle.
How a team executes it depends on the players ability to buy into the concept. The "one and done" Omar Cook executed it beautifully. Quick, efficient passes.
With Phil "hey, look at me dribbling" Greene IV, not so quick or efficient.
 
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