Dribble Penetration Beat the Tarheels
Like all good coaches, Roy Williams teaches help defense and he knows he has the athletes who are able to recover quick enough to get a hand in the face of the shooters. In fact, most coaches believe that the defense should be at the same level of the ball so that they can help in case someone drives to the basket. North Carolina did this yesterday against BC and BC had the shooters to make them pay. Boston College is a unique team to watch because of the way they are coached. They run an old school offense that is comparable to the option in football. In the west we call it flex or spots and i don’t know what they call it out there, but it works well for BC. When Carolina pressured too much Tyrese Rice was able to get past his man and force help defense. Then he would dish it out to prepared open shooters who knocked down shots all night long. It didn’t help the Heels that they were plagued by the memory of Rice scoring 46 on them in a game last year so that any time he did drive they were aware of it.
Basically it came down to BC hitting 9 3’s and only having 10 turnovers. 6 of those turnovers were from Rice so the rest of the team had a collective great game holding on to the ball against a team that is known for pressure defense. It was an impressive game and one that should go down in coaches memory banks as a way to beat teams who play pressure defense.
