Los Angeles – Reh Marshall smilingly said that she was the protector of a Kingdom strategy, which was quickly away from a question about the reviews of the USC Women’s Basketball Team’s recent defensive bounce.
“Defense target chart,” Marshall said, walking away after Thursday’s practice, inflating the moral of information on his shoulder with a smile in his voice. “If you know, you know. I could say about all that. ,
This is the best secret of the USC. Also this is hardly a secret if you spend a minute with a woman of Bath Burns, USC’s Defense Guru and Lindsay Gotlib’s right hand woman who has applied and popularized your system of subjective defensive analysis-this “target chart”-which has bought by the entire program.
During his second term from 2005–2013 as the head coach of San Diego State, Burns and Aztec made a trip to play the role of St. Mary. Burns knew Randy Bennett, the men’s coach of Saint Mary from his early coaching days at the University of San Diego; For example, Bennett offered to bathe in the men’s locker room before returning home. And in the locker room, Bennett’s whiteboard grabbed Burns’ eye: like figures and words scattered with words DEffensive percentage.
Burns, long, reduced the lack of empirical data available to measure defense. From the onset of basketball, he explained with young enthusiasm on Thursday, it was easy for the players to digest aggressive performance: Shoot 1 -for -14, you played poorly. Defense, she continued, “more, your coach said,” You smell. “
So when San Diego returned home, Burns called Bennett, and asked him about the system on his whiteboard. It provided seeds for a defensive metric system, which Burns has converted and developed in recent years of its coaching career, first brought it to Louisville, then returned to the USC.
Every Tuesday, Burns breaks the video clip of each occupation in which an opposing team scored the USC players, providing them a certain number of points and the efficiency score obtained from a simple formula. It has done a wonderful job for a USC program that now sits in 20-4 and seventh place in AP Top 25, shooting a six-game conference and shooting second place in PAC-12 after the line of victory. The aggressive explosions of Freshman Juju Watkins are eligiblely documented; The USC, although, has hit its progress in large parts due to bowling defensive efforts, Wattakes shot 6 -for -32 -32 in Oregon State last Sunday and Trojan is still fighting for a win for 33% shooting beaver.
“It’s its secret chutney,” Burns smiled on Thursday, getting ready to convince her system.
There are nuances here. On the plays where a rival score, Burns attributes the points to the USC defender or defenders directly under the defensive plan of Trojan. It is said that a periphery guard was considered to force someone to force the base line, and they went in the middle for a trimming – Burns gave the defender two points. It is said that a big box does not out and it turns into a three – Burns assigns that big three points.
Personal numbers, then, are compiled in a simple equation: the points divided by minutes, “D%for a state burn call. Any person with a score of 29% or less (who, if there is a prediction for the output of the entire team, will be surrendered 60 points or less), Burns is defined as being in the “green” zone. 39% or less in yellow zone. Anyone above 39%in red area.
“and you do No Want to be red, “Burns Gind.
In the last three matches, the USC’s half roster has been in green. The players have become addicted, Burns said, to come to the film sessions, to see their mistakes and dodge them on their score. Program, Gotlib said on Thursday, defensive coverage has improved its understanding, a tendency that shows both in simple data-USC has not given more than 70 points from mid-January-and in Burns Matrix. As Burns was sitting on a baseline seat after Thursday’s practice, he stopped getting out of one to get out for a moment, on 12 February against Erizona, on the game of senior on the game of Senior, in which Padila was not tailed for any points on the Burns system.
Burns said, “I have been doing this chart for a long time, friend, and I don’t know that someone has done 0 in 30 minutes,” Burns said, Padila smiled and put his hand on her heart.
“Thank you, Coach B,” Padila replied.
Metric spread outside the practice court and film room, Burns enthusiastically discussed the score of Padila with Senior McKenzi Forbes in a Galen Balan after wrapped on Thursday, the foundation of a program approach that saw a comprehensive personal defensive improvement. There is Watkins, which almost raises the deflections, as he points. Marshal is, who praised Gotlib as protecting the “quarterbacking” USC from the paint. Padila is, who has been proud of a score-first guard in the pen in his ascension, which is for a point-off-attacth defender in the USC.
“When you are playing, sometimes, it likes, ‘Op-thick, it’s another two points on the D-chart,” said Padila.
USC vs. Colorado
When: Friday, 7 pm
Where: Crazy Center
TV/Radio: PAC -12 Network/790 AM