1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - One-On-One with DP: November 18th, 3:25pm - What's Up, DP?

Episode Date: November 18, 2021

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To the start of him and text on Jeff says, so in your opinion, Verge has been playing fine. It's his shooter's fault for not getting his trust. Focus. Focus. The very first thing that's been said about Alonzo Verge is that he needs to distribute better. What part of that? Like, I actually said that.

He has to distribute better. It's his job to make a decision on who to give the ball to. And football quarterback that throws to a receiver who never catches the ball won't be the started quarterback for long. Simple deal. For point guards along the way. And just to be clear, let me help with a thing that I've been trying to functionally work on. That in the NBA, there are very, I'll ask you this question, and you got to see if you have an answer. give me the names of point guards, starting point guards in the NBA,

who average more assists than shots attempted. I'll even amend that. Tell me how many Power 5 point guards average more assists than shots attempted. There aren't many. There aren't many. And all of the All-Stars and all the guys who are getting paid a lot, shoot the ball a lot from the point guard position. You know why?

Because every coach in basketball wants a point guard who can get you points per possession, every single one. And they'll tell you, oh, I need a pass first point guard. There aren't any. They're not. They're just not. So stop putting that on people. That's not what that is. If you coach a basketball team and you have a point guard that can get downhill and can shoot jumpers, you're a happy coach.

You're a better coach. You're a more successful coach. The numbers say that. Now, I will say that Verge needs to be better in identifying the decision that he needs to make when he needs to make. When he gets to the decision line, he needs to be better and more efficient about his decision making. Triple threat is always a viable weapon for point cards. So when you get there and you honor the jump stop and you recognize one that you've done your job in attracting a defender off a shooter.

Right? So you've got a corner, Nebraska puts two shooters at the corners. Verge, when he not only rubs off the big man, he has to make a decision. One, can I get, can I, do I have free path to the, to the glass? If I don't, have they

dropped under me enticing me almost demanding that I shoot the mid-range jumper? If he gets defensive help and he's hedged at that defender, close enough to get this dude to shoot the jumper,

to give up the jumper? Yeah, pretty simple. Mr. Unlimited, we said there's not many. And people hate Rondo's game. They literally hate watching Rondo. That's why he's bumped around from team to team over the course of the years. Why? Because unless he hits the jumper,

dang a pass first point guard means that you're just out there moving the ball around, but you're not exactly a threat to the defense. offense. And do a quick check on how many shots the game Rondo averages in his career. Do a quick check. Do a quick check. You know what happens with point guards who can't shoot in the NBA? They go to the G League. You go to Europe. You go to South America. You've got to be able to look. The game has moved along and you have to be able to put points on the board.

Now, Verge has to be better at shooting. He has to be better at decision making. He's putting it on the floor way too many times. He doesn't need to dribble as much as he does. I mean, there are offenses in both college and NBA where, look, the more times the ball is passed, as a matter of fact, there are coaching staffs that pay attention, they actually keep track of the number of passes in a game and the number of dribbles in a game.

And when those things are one-to-one, teams win. What's up, D.P.? As a master, I can never forgive Rondo for his eight-second call he had in the playoffs. Anybody but run. Right? See, this is the thing. There's convenience in what fans want to see and then what's successful.

When they match up, it's fantastic. But if you think of your donchitz down in Dallas. Look, man, that dude, the reason why he has assists is that he is effective when he shoots it, and he makes incredible decisions. People's issue with Russell Westbrook is that he just doesn't shoot the three well. But guess what? He finishes so well that he makes up for it. LeBron is basically a point guard.

Statements of fact. People get men, call Steph. Steph's not a traditional point. He's not a point guard because he shoots so much. But that's the game. That's the game now. The game moves. This is the same argument with,

and we'll bring back the fullback and everything will be fine. But people have figured out how to condense to numbers and make tackles when fullbacks are on the field. That's how that's happened. That's why the game moves. in every sport. Space is offense, offense is space. And if you bring in a fullback, you're condensing your offense.

You're putting it between the hash marks and making it easier if you identify the spaces in which you can attack. In basketball, again, look, I understand. My goodness gracious, there's a whole list of things, checklist that you have to do well. And defending is at the top of that list, defending the front of the rim, taking away passes across the middle and across your face,

pushing them to more difficult spots on the floor, percentages on the floor matter. Depending on the level of the basketball you're talking about, you can actually look at the spot on the floor and see what the shooting percentage is from that spot. And people defend. You know what? I'm going to make the easy ones tougher

and I'm going to make the more difficult ones and be more easy for you to have. Alonzo Verge continually puts himself in a difficult situation because he has been athletic enough to make it work. But when you need for him to be a distributor, Because his marching orders for the past three years has been different. His marching orders off the bench for Arizona State has been, go get points.

Go get points. Like, we need points. Where the marching orders here are, we need points, but we also need to get everybody involved. And so that transition is inevitable. Inevitable. What's up, D.P. What's up?

I think the fans would feel differently about him if he was making even a fair amount of shots he takes when he drives to the paint. I've never known a basketball player who took a shot with the hopes that he didn't make it or with the thought that he couldn't make it. Verge is an above-average scoring guard and whatever guard position you put him at. He's not the best shooter. He's not the best shooter on the floor.

He's not the best shooter on the team. That's just not it is. But he is the best score. He's the second best score on the team. Period. So if you need a bucket and there are oftentimes, remember this Nebraska program the last couple of years, there were nights where you weren't.

weren't sure. Like even Creighton, you want four for 22 or some nonsense? Like, okay. So what do you do? Do you give the ball to the person who's the least efficient offensive player? Or do you want the guy who actually has a chance of making a bucket, taking it and doing something with it? Those are the problems that this team has currently. It has shooters. You have to give shooters enough touches. You have to give them enough opportunities to do what they do. A lot of times your coach or just look at his scoring point guard and say, hey, man, go get me one. I'm not saying that's the case here

because the shooters that are on the floor for Nebraska, even if their percentage has been down, still are on the floor to do their job, which is to shoot open threes. And make them. And make them. But the shots aren't going down for Nebraska, for anybody. You know, Bryce is getting his at the free throw line.

Like, he's taking bumps and bruises so he can get to the free throw. line. Right? That's the statement affair. Lemmon says, what up, DP? What up, Lemon? Verges making the worst decisions, but the whole team is not looking to pass. Even when they're looking to pass, the other guys aren't making it easy for them because two or three guys are consistently just standing still and not moving to get themselves open. Just standing on the three point line watching the guy with the ball go ISO. Technically, what you're doing in this Read and React is to spread out.

forced defenders through fatigue, sloppiness, or other, not get to a shooter in time. Like, I want my shooters to be shooter ready and shooter effective. Not everybody shoots the three while on the move. Nebraska shooters for purpose. Kobe's pretty good off the dribble with three. Bryce is better than average. Everybody else, these are set shooters.

These are feet of planted, catch and shoot three-point shooters. A lot is not exceptional at putting it on the floor to get to it, at least not at this point. We understand that. C.J. Wilter, look, he is a sniper. He also has the ability to be athletic and get the ball into paint and make people have to defend you.

But not everybody, this offense is built on catch-and-shoot-3s. And the space that's required is set up so your point guard is going one-on-one, or he and the center are going two-on-two with defenders having to stick themselves close to those shooters at the corner. Now, the defenders can help on the two-on-two if the shooters, three-point shooters aren't making the shots. If you think of Colorado, when the shots are going down, it's very hard to defend because the spacing requires too much action

back and forth. But if the shots aren't going down from the three, you bunch and you pack it in and make that point guard and that center struggle. It's not ISO. It's not ISO. It's a ball. screen. It's a ball screen.

A base principle in every offense, no matter what level you're in, ball screen. In this offense, the ball screen comes at the top of the key. You can you can down screen and hopefully you're helping somebody get downhill. But the action is, the person with the ball on that screen is going to try to get to the bucket.

And if they get stopped on the bucket, it's an extra defender and that means that a defender has left a shooter open and then that ball should be kicked and knocked down. All of it works. If the shots go down, then great. But that hasn't been the case. It hasn't been the case.

Axel Foley, I'll forgive you. They keep talking about shooting open threes, but every time these guys drive the lane, it seems like they have a lot of kickouts, and they don't take them because they can take tough, a tough shot in the lane with three big guys in front of them. Why is that? Confidence.

confidence, being fluid, getting shooters, the ball in spots that they can make shots from. Shots that they think they can make shots from. Spots on the floor. And then here's the thing. Kese, he's won for 10, something like that, but I guarantee, like, every player that gives Kshae the ball with a little bit of space, they think that three is going down. CJ Wilts will tell you, I don't need a lot of space. If I get a little space,

I think that three should go down. Whether they go down or not. But the way to affect defense and to clear out that space so Verge and Derek Walker or Eduardo Andre can get to work in there is for those threes to go down. It's all interconnected.

That's the beauty of this offense. Nobody has to carry it. Nobody should have to carry it. But everybody's got to make their shots. and that's a simple thing. We'll stick to it. We'll stick to it. We'll get to the rest of the text.

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