Fles = switchq
Years ago

Why do SA teams love Flex?

What is is about SA Hoops that means Flex is a must?

Switch all G-G and B-B = Late clock.

Why do SA M & C love flex?!?!?!?

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Sturty6ers  
Years ago

Those drugs your on, can I have a couple?

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Wilma  
Years ago

SA aren't up to it that's why. We are not good enough to win and our players don't have the ability to take in more than one simple offence.

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Isaac  
Years ago

I assume it's something to do with this: Flex offense and SA M & C are the metro and country teams. Unsure about "G-G" and "B-B" - any help?

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Sturty6ers  
Years ago

The 'G-G and B-B=Late Clock' was the confusing bit.......

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rotate on this  
Years ago

"G-G" used for a cheap thrill and side effects range from delirium , disassosciation to death .
James Harvey was a fan .

"B-B" a quickfire offense , basically first chance shoot scenario born from Phoenix , Arizona .
Also known as 'bang bang' or 'double barrel' .

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Lou Filerman  
Years ago

None of the U/16 or U/18 Metro state teams ran flex last year.

Maybe you've been watching too many South or West junior boys games?

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Anonymous  
Years ago

G-G = guard to guard (screens)
B-B = big to big

Having said that, I didn't see ANY flex from the SAM teams last couple of years. Saw limited SAC stuff - but didn't see any flex there either (in that limited selection).

As written above - the only flex I've seen recently is by South (who use it quite a lot) and West boys.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

btw - by "limited", I mean I didn't see them very much/often - not that their stuff was limited.

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Moose 65  
Years ago

I can't remember the last time I saw this run even in junior ball. I don't know what you are on about.

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Bo Hamburger  
Years ago

Semi-related: interesting story about the new offensive system that's all the rage in the US at the moment, the Dribble-Drive Motion offense.

Lots of college and high school teams on board, and Denver and Boston are running bits of it in the NBA.

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smithers  
Years ago

Flex as an offense provides opportunity for players to generate their own offense and creative players will flourish off of it. I personally am a huge fan of flex as I have a team of players that can play all positions and flex can create some interesting mismatches

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hoop fiend  
Years ago

agreed,

Every player in juniors should at some stage should learn flex as it has great principals with regards to motion and mismatches.

Found the DDM article interesting, thanks for that Bo. Though i very stongly suspect its just an extention of Dean Smiths {Jordan's North Carolina coach } system best exemplified at the 76 Olympics when Phil Ford could not be contained under Dean's system off the dribble, and Adrian Dantley just took on all the bigger Euro Forwards off the dribble and made mince meat out of them.

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BBallGod  
Years ago

Nothing beats motion to learn those principles. Motion offenses are predicated on ball movement then player movement. Structured offenses are predicated on player movement then ball movement.

Which concept is best to teach young players the game?

Personally, if you want to disrupt a flex offense, shut down and deny the GtoG pass and double team the forward when he receives the ball in the corner.

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doddobird  
Years ago

Argentina won against the USA in the 2002 World Championship and ran the flex. That was the first loss for a "NBA" US teams.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/news/2002/09/04/usa_argentina_ap/

If only the US knew about your "Switch all G-G and B-B = Late clock."

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argie  
Years ago

It's not actually flex as such.

If you had have attended the clinic at Seymour with the argentinian coach you would have seen a set called flex, but was really a couple of sets that had some flex actions.

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doddobird  
Years ago

Did not attend but watched the game. (Seymour is a bit far for me.) It was flex with lots of different entries. Maybe they changed it a bit since 2002.

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argie  
Years ago

Entry was similar, and ended with a turnout and a down screen at the same time, with the cutters being able to read which screen they would use.

Not like flex at all and the coach actually commented on it.

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doddobird  
Years ago

A cross screen followed by a down screen is nothing like flex. This "unknown" offence made a comeback in the NBA after the 2002 championship. Maybe we have a different idea what flex is.

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flaming tiger  
Years ago

dodobird, my idea of flex was a cross screen followed by a down screen. I hope I'm reading sarcasm... I ran it last year with junior boys, scored a bucket load on the cross screen and was actually commented on by your former coach (if i'm right in knowing who you are) Terry A, who liked the idea to give back-up structure when offense isn't working.

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doddobird  
Years ago

Yeh they ran lots of Flex type action. So I think you can call it flex. The player who cut off the cross screen could also read the "D" and use the down screen instead. What else did they run in 2002 argie???

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Anon  
Years ago

Valk called "flex" in todays' game..(Lightning vs Flames)

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