BuzzerBeater Forums

Help - English > Base Offense

Base Offense

Set priority
Show messages by
This Post:
00
168343.2 in reply to 168343.1
Date: 1/6/2011 10:48:44 PM
Overall Posts Rated:
14651465
Pros: No one expects it.
Cons: It is bad.

This Post:
00
168343.3 in reply to 168343.1
Date: 1/6/2011 11:02:06 PM
Overall Posts Rated:
205205
pro: if the opponent has holes in his defense, they will be abused, no matter where they are.

con: if the opponent has a strong defense everywhere, you don't overwhelm the opponents defense anywhere so you won't hit many shots.

generally speaking, base offense is for those rare cases when you don't know what your opponents defense will look like, but know it won't strangle you anyway. Alternatively, balanced offenses can be used by teams with very unbalanced offenses whose opponent has an unbalanced defense that is tilted the same way as their offense (either an inside defense team vs an inside offense team, or similarly with outside), so they can use the best matchups instead of forced bad matchups that might yield them an advantage against balanced defensive teams.

This Post:
00
168343.4 in reply to 168343.3
Date: 1/6/2011 11:35:23 PM
Arizona Desert Storm
III.1
Overall Posts Rated:
11261126
pro: if the opponent has holes in his defense, they will be abused, no matter where they are.

con: if the opponent has a strong defense everywhere, you don't overwhelm the opponents defense anywhere so you won't hit many shots.



I really wish I read this before my game on Tuesday!! I think this is very accurate what you are saying. I ran base in that game more as an experiment anyway, but now I wish I tried another experiment :-) My opponent, like you describe, has solid defense everywhere...and the way I felt the game went, was that my players were in one on one situations all night long, and we didn't seem to have an advantage in any of those matchups. Rather than having a specific focus that RnG or Motion Provides on the outside, or the inside focus that Look Inside or Low Post utilizes, base seemed to just put my players in individual one on matchups that seemed quite random. I will try base again at some point, but it won't be against such a well balanced, defensive team like the one I am playing in the finals right now.

Message deleted
Message deleted
This Post:
00
168343.7 in reply to 168343.5
Date: 1/6/2011 11:55:15 PM
Overall Posts Rated:
205205
Yes; but only if you play 3-2 or even 1-3-1 zone; what's killing you is his great outside shooting, and you have nothing to put up against him defensively while defending man to man.

Message deleted
This Post:
00
168343.9 in reply to 168343.8
Date: 1/7/2011 12:07:13 AM
Overall Posts Rated:
205205
The best option might be Patient offense. He likes to play different zones, so he's not very predictable, but usually quite bad either outside or inside. At the same time, you want to get good looks against him, so slow pace might be preferred.

Message deleted
This Post:
00
168343.11 in reply to 168343.10
Date: 1/7/2011 12:18:09 AM
Overall Posts Rated:
205205
usually, balanced offenses already utilize the outside shooting more than the inside scoring. Moreover, playing an outside offense and a zone would weaken your Rebounding too much, I think.

If your Bigs are good Passers, Princeton might be an alternative, though.

This Post:
00
168343.12 in reply to 168343.11
Date: 1/7/2011 12:23:38 AM
Overall Posts Rated:
00
nah! not a good passer.. alhtough they rebound well. I think base offense, patient or any outside offense fits my team at this point.

Advertisement