A lot of my die-hard fans might have expected this. Sometimes I really still cannot believe it is a thing. At a regular basketball game, you can expect me yelling to stop this madness while the team is playing. I despise this play with everything I got. It is just the worst thing ever created and in this article I will explain. Donny, I love you, and you are a great man, but PLEASE STOP RUNNING WISCONSIN.
I was first introduced to this play when I was playing middle school ball in 7th grade. At the time, I thought it was stupid. The play basically has a bunch of screens and at some point could end up with your guards down low and your bigs on the key. WHAT? Let’s have our shooters not be able to shoot, and have our guys who can post up be on the 3 point line. Absolutely genius. This play creates much more problems as you can easily get bunched up from the screens and it rarely ends in points. We can run simple pick and rolls and get easy buckets. Craig is a house and Ethan builds houses. Perfect. It is just not a good play and I really do not think we should still be running after all of these years. Which brings me to my next point.
We have been running this play ever since Coach Donny Byron hit the OA court. Teams have caught on. Any confusion that there once was, is not there anymore. The teams know what you are going to do and then stop the play when there is a big up top not knowing what he is doing at all. Most likely will resolve in a reset or a bad pass. That’s just about 15 seconds of the shot clock wasted from just running a bad play. I do not get it at all. This play needs to end. Not just because it is terrible, but all of our opponents know it. We will need more to beat Mansfield.
OA faces off against Mansfield today at 7:30. If OA wants to win, they need to get rid of this play.