Anyway Bohannon can make that layup without his shot being blocked?
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Teams have definitely adjusted to him. The best way to guard him is to not collapse or help when he drives and make him take a contested layup. I think he will benefit from playing alongside CM next year, so he can play some SG and gets some looks running off screens.
It is a matter of using your body to protect the ball and force the defender to go through you to get the ball. Still susceptible to guy coming from behind. And when coming from the left side, must be able to use left hand which I have noticed that bohanon doesn't do a good job of using this off hand
Unless he throws out a forearm, which is often a foul... or positioning the opposite arm & hold it away from the defender, no. And if he did it would most likely get called a foul.
Wish he could score tho! Gesell had the same issue. Maybe a back out short jumper or reverse layup. But other than that, he is what he is...
Wish he could score tho! Gesell had the same issue. Maybe a back out short jumper or reverse layup. But other than that, he is what he is...
It looked to me like Bohannon WAS actually trying to fend him off with the body, and he knew what was likely going to happen if he didn't. There just ultimately wasn't anything he could do about it.
His only other option was to do a quick stop and let him jump by, which would have been damn difficult at top speed. He tried to do the right thing I believe, the Illinois guy just made a better play, largely because he's a better athlete in that situation.
Honestly, it was a great move by Jordan. It's just that the defender made a terrific play in recovering to get the block. In the future he may decide to pull up for a short jumper.
When you're that short and unathletic plays like that are going to happen.
I agree I thought he should have went with the reverse layup in that situation so you are using the rim to protect the ball.
Yep, let him drive to the basket all he wants, there is very little chance his shot isn't blocked by somebody in the area. He is just too short and not athletic enough to get away with drives to the basket against normal size players or athletic ones. Check out Watson of Nebraska if you want to see what a pg is supposed to look and perform like.
Excellent post. If you caught the MI-MN game tonight, you saw what Iowa doesn't have at the PG spot. Walton and Mason made tough shots in crunch time by driving the ball hard with the bounce and finishing. In a 3 point contest, I would take Bohannon hands down, but a PG needs to be able to attack, defend, and create. The kid is doing his best in a difficult situation, but if Fran can't significantly upgrade this spot, the freshman class will never see the NCAA tourney.
Really like Bohannon's attitude and game. He isn't afraid and maximizes what he has. That said, I don't think playing him at SG a lot is going to be a good idea. Who is he going to guard? Against Illinois that would have been Coleman-Lands or Hill. Not good. The best thing would be for Williams to improve or for Conor Mc to be a viable option for minutes as well. Bohannon would probably be helped playing fewer minutes.
It isn't that he has no athletic ability. Of course he does.
It's that he doesn't have the ability as it relates to quickness of step and explosiveness to the basket of the majority of starting PGs in the B1G. That's a high bar, but it is what it is. And he has been exposed on both ends of the court because of this.
He's had a good year, better than I was expecting.
I'm not sure, though, that he will ever get into the upper half of conference PGs with the relative limitations he has in quickness and explosiveness.
It's that he doesn't have the ability as it relates to quickness of step and explosiveness to the basket of the majority of starting PGs in the B1G. That's a high bar, but it is what it is. And he has been exposed on both ends of the court because of this.
He's had a good year, better than I was expecting.
I'm not sure, though, that he will ever get into the upper half of conference PGs with the relative limitations he has in quickness and explosiveness.
Great play by the defender. JoBo trying to make a play - they left the lane wide open for him so he has to take it to the goal or else it won't be respected. Only way to keep it from getting blocked is to dunk it (nope) or a reverse lay up (possible but weak side help could come) or my favorite...sudden stop and let the defender trailing the play crash into you or fly right by ala Wade Lookingbill after about 3 pump fakes.
That's exactly what I was getting at earlier. Jordan's going to have to learn to pull up for the quick jumper in that situation if he doesn't have the athleticism to dunk it. But once again, I don't think that there are enough people on here giving respect to the play that the defender made. That was a heck of a recovery and block by him after Jordan blew by him. Sometimes you have to tip your hat to the opponent.
Correct, there's tons of ways to score if you have the skill to do it.
Half the time Nash didnt even leave the ground on his shots around the basket.
Theres always a way to get the shot off you just have to know where the defender is and what theyre going to do.
Iowa plays zone at least half the time and in man you dont have to gaurd the position you play on offense.
To answer the question, he would have had to take to the other side of the rim, reverse layup, to avoid the block. Great play by the defender.
