I think I'd argue that his ability to teach his defense needs to get better rather than it being the defense itself.bdp514am said:
Buzz is such a good person. I do want him to succeed here. I grew very frustrated with him this season. And I think the game has changed in ways that make his defensive strategy less effective, especially the ridiculous new charge rules. But I'd send my son to play for him in a heartbeat
We run a truly wild defense, and we shift it around some that makes it hard to follow in games. I mean at times you can see our opponents aren't even sure what we're in and they sort of dribble in circles trying to figure it out.
But because of that, sometimes it's hard to tell what's actually the scheme and what's someone screwing up. I think the easiest example is giving up the baseline to opponents. We are not coached to do that. Obviously right? Nobody is creating a defense trying to give up free runs to the basket along the baseline.
What happens though, especially against teams with really good athletes, is our players overestimate their own athletic ability. They're too far inside because they think they can recover, or they're too far off the baseline because they think they can still cut it off, but they can't. That's a coaching and fundamentals issue, not a scheme issue.
The other complicating factor for us defensively this year is our two best offensive players are mediocre-at-best defenders, and one of them is very small. If we ran some kind of traditional defense our opponents would have just attacked Wade and Boots.
