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Pressing Defenses seem to be VT Achilles heel

The long rangy players on our guards bringing the ball up eat up valuable shot clock for VT's offense.
Even the zone presses push VT deep in the shot clock eliminating the extra ball movement that has helped our shooting percentage. VT lacks the ability to push the ball up at a greater pace.
PSU last year destroyed VT by pressing and it seems to be the choice of everyone this year.

In response to this post by GCHokie34

Posted: 12/12/2021 at 11:35PM

Lot of in-depth analysis which shows we care -- DCL 12/12/2021 9:43PM

11 games in, Maddox's offensive #s in limited minutes... -- HokieInHeelCountry 12/13/2021 11:22AM

The headscratcher is we have 5 guys who were good shooters last season -- ShockWaveVT 12/12/2021 10:20PM

In his slump, Murphy is still shooting 35% from 3 -- GCHokie34 12/12/2021 10:33PM

I dont know the numbers. How well has Storm -- HokiePail 12/13/2021 12:15PM

I’m not disagreeing with you… -- VPI63 12/13/2021 02:40AM

So why hasn't he already? ** -- MDHokie79 12/13/2021 5:05PM

I’ve never understood, especially in basketball, who starts & who come off -- Hokie535 12/13/2021 07:08AM

Agreed -- JoWood07 12/13/2021 05:27AM

What would you do if this was your team? ** -- VT ChemE 1986 12/12/2021 10:59PM

Change our press break into an attack/offensive mindset -- hokiepro 12/13/2021 06:30AM

^^^^ THIS ^^^^ ** -- Hokiestud 12/13/2021 4:59PM

You have to attack different presses in different ways -- 1980VT 12/13/2021 08:18AM

Our strategy against the trap had to be a coaching decision, needs to stop -- soflahokie 12/13/2021 10:36AM

A lot of the times we had Mutts in the middle -- 1980VT 12/13/2021 10:45AM

Agree, Mutts has regressed, we played Maddox at the 4 during out comeback -- soflahokie 12/13/2021 10:48AM

I don't think he has regressed, he's trying to do more -- 1980VT 12/13/2021 11:01AM

Yes you’re 100% correct. We had at least 2 man press breaks -- hokiepro 12/13/2021 08:25AM

Very long...but Ill try to make a post tomorrow in a debrief ** -- GCHokie34 12/12/2021 11:01PM

Pressing Defenses seem to be VT Achilles heel -- hokiewasp 12/12/2021 11:35PM

I'm looking forward to that. CMY mentioned that he'll have more time to -- IB4TECH 12/12/2021 11:05PM

Murphy is coming around a bit, but.. -- ShockWaveVT 12/12/2021 10:48PM

Bede couldn’t beat anyone off the dribble either -- hokiepro 12/12/2021 11:01PM

That's false. No one took the ball from him -- King of Hokies 12/13/2021 12:32AM

Ok so he’d occasionally go past someone on the dribble only to -- hokiepro 12/13/2021 5:28PM

Bede had a strong handle and handled ball pressure very well. -- ShockWaveVT 12/13/2021 12:14AM

Even though he didn't have confidence in his shot, he did everything... -- EDGEMAN 12/13/2021 07:13AM

Pressing Defenses seem to be VT Achilles heel

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