O contra ataque

Contra-atacar é avançar com a bola até ao cesto adversário com o máximo de rapidez e segurança, de forma a colocá-lo em desvantagem numérica aquando da recuperação defensiva.
Na filosofia de jogo de qualquer equipa deve constar, necessariamente. o contra-ataque, já que é um estilo de jogo do agrado público, jogadores e treinadores.
Na NBA os Suns são os melhores intérpretes desta acção ofensiva e na NCAA Florida segue o seu exemplo.
O tema está por mim a ser abordado na FMH.
Aqui ficam , para os meus alunos, algumas imagens sugestivas numa época em que as mesmas contam mais que as palavras...





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Oh My Dear Redskins......Why? WHy? WHY?

Last season the Washington Redskins had 19 sacks. Total. In 16 games. For perspective, Tampa Bay had 25 sacks, and they were second to last in the league. The Chargers led the league with 61 sacks, more than three times as many as the Redskins Point being, Washington had a terrible pass rush. The lack of a pass rush last season is particularly befuddling considering that the Redskins had tallied 35 and 40 sacks respectively in the previous two seasons. In examining the reasons for this drop off, two things should jump out at the average observer. First, linemen such as Cornelius Griffin and Phillip Daniels saw a marked drop off in their pass rushing performance from previous seasons. It is also worthy to note that Griffin and Daniels are 30 and 34 years old respectively, and perhaps their most dynamic pass rushing seasons are behind them. This happens in the NFL all of the time. Another trend is the drop off from the past two seasons in the number of sacks generated by non defensive linemen. Las season the Redskins generated 6 sacks from their linebackers and secondary, as compared to 16 and 22.5 sacks generated by the same groups in the previous two seasons. As someone who watched all of the Redskins games last season, I can say that the non-linemen trend is a direct result of Greg Williams refusing to blitz, which is dangerous considering what the Redskins were throwing on the field in terms of corners last season. Since the Skins seem content to stick with Williams as coordinator, the seeming solution to the Skins pass rushing problem would be to bring in more playmakers at DE and DT, considering the age of Daniels and the fact that the Skins were so thin at DT that 6th round pick Kedrick Golston started for stretches.

The Redskins during the free agency period showed no interest in signing any impact defensive linemen or pass rushing OLBs. Unrestricted free agents such as Patrick Kerney, Juqua Thomas, and Dewayne White, all younger and better substitutions for Daniels, did not get any attention from Washington. DTs such as Anthony Adams and Ian Scott were likewise ignored. The biggest impact signing of the offseason for the Redskins, LB London Fletcher-Baker, is a tackling machine who has never been known as a pass rusher and whose career high in sacks stands at 5.5. I however, was not worried. There were enough scraps left at DT to sign an upgrade to Golston, second year LB Rocky McIntosh could grow into a pass rushing threat with increased playing time, and most importantly of all, the #6 pick in the draft was going to turn into a pass rushing defensive lineman. The last part of my hope was the most important. Just take a gander at the prospects that would be available the Redskins around that position: Michigan DT Alan Branch, Arkansas DE Jamal Anderson, and most promising, Clemson DE Gaines Adams. I am not going to lie, I have been salivating at the prospect of the Redskins having a monster like Adams lining up opposite of Andre Carter. Honestly salivating.

The reasons outlined above, are precisely why I woke up this morning distraught. As you may have seen reported on ESPN, the Redskins are in discussions with the Bears to trade for Lance Briggs. Under normal circumstances, or if the Redskins had signed a player like Kerney earlier this offseason, I would be ecstatic to hear such news. Briggs is an elite LB, there is no debating that. He is proficient against both the run and the pass, and is only 27 years old and has already made two Pro Bowls. Briggs is a stud, no question. However, my concern upon hearing this news was two fold. Namely that Briggs has 3.5 sacks.....IN HIS ENTIRE 4 YEAR CAREER. He along with Marcus Washington and London Fletcher-Baker will give the Redskins a very good tackling corps of LBs, but they also will be a completely punchless group of pass rushers barring a major departure from their past performances. The other part of my concern is the price tag being reported for Briggs: an exchange of the Redskins #6 pick for the Bears #31 pick. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Don't trade Gaines Skins! Don't throw a chance at Adams, Branch, or Anderson out of the window. Signing Briggs to the kind of mega deal that is going to be necessary for this trade to go through is also going to suck up any remaining cap space that could have been used to get a new DT or DE. The presence of Briggs on the Redskins roster is also going to extremely handicap the development of last years second round pick McIntosh. This proposed trade would be terrible for the Redskins, to put it bluntly. It would not however, be surprising given the Skins tendency in recent years to go after any player they think can help NOW, with no regard given to building a team and developing players. The Redskins practically give away all of their draft picks every year, and this move would show that the Redskins would rather bring in a big gun than let a player such as McIntosh develop alongside a top 10 defensive line prospect. It is a good thing the Redskins will have such a good group of tacklers. Because they are going to need it for every 5 yard run that cracks through their porous defensive line. For every 6 and 7 yard pass thrown by a QB without a hand in his face. And for every time a QB scrambles out of the pocket successfully when his recievers are covered downfield. It would seem to me that any intelligent football fan could recognize that the Redskins need pass rushers. It is a shame that no such person seems to reside in the Redskins front office.

Fundamentos

O lançamento (Ray Allen)


A defesa (Bruce Bowen)



O Passe (Steve Nash)



O Ressalto (Dwight Howard)



O Lançamento Curto (Sam Cassel)


O Desarme (Emeka Okafor)


Trabalho sem bola (Hamilton )


Trabalho Poste (Carlos Boozer)

The Texans Are Dumber Than They Look

It saddens me when an NFL general manager feels fit to show the entire nation that he does not know how to do his job. Seriously. That is the only way to describe what Texans GM Rick Smith did in his trade for Matt Schaub. Smith not only managed to misdiagnose his team's main problem in relation to the quarterback position, he also highly overpaid for the wrong solution. To clarify, the Texans are sending two 2nd round picks and the 8th overall selection in this year's draft for Schaub and the 10th pick. Yes, that Matt Schaub, the one that has only started two games in his career and lost both of them. The same one that would have been an unrestricted free agent next off-season. Yeah, that one. Essentially the Falcons just pulled the same trick on the Texans that tall untalented centers (Robert Swift anyone? Adonal Foyle? Jerome James?) have been pulling on NBA teams for years. Let them see as little as possible, get them talking as much as possible, and laugh as hard as possible all the way to the bank.

The first thing to dissect with this trade is how much exactly the Texans gave up to get Schaub. According to the NFL draft pick value chart used by most teams, the difference between the 8th and 10th overall picks in the draft is equivalent to a high 4th round pick, thus bringing the final tally for the unproven Schaub to two 2nd rounders and the equivalent of a 4th rounder. Also to take into consideration, the 2nd round pick the Texans are giving up is the 39th overall pick. Here is a quick list of some players taken around that position in the past few drafts, in the top third of the second round:

DeMeco Ryans
Reggie Brown
Ben Troupe
Tatum Bell
Julius Jones
Igor Olshansky
Eric Steinbach
Rashean Mathis
DeShaun Foster

See what I am getting at here? A team that drafts well should be able to get an eventual (or instant) starter out of a second round pick, especially a high 2nd rounder. Heaven knows that the Texans have more than just one hole to fill on their team. So why trade away two potential starters for an unproven commodity? Especially when you already have a proven one?

You read that correctly. I just called David Carr a proven commodity. Proven how you might ask? Well, when he has not been on his back he has done a pretty good job getting the ball to Andre Johnson. Sadly, Johnson is about the only reliable receiver the Texans have on their roster. Also sad, is that Carr has not had many times when he is not on his back. I mean seriously, the problem with the Texans offense was not David Carr. GMs across the NFL have been showing the importance of offensive linemen the last two off-seasons, showing it with their pocket books. Now that would have been a change of pace for the Texans. Spending money where the problem actually rests. Look at their offensive line last year. They started a rookie (Eric Winston), the oft injured Fred Weary, an aging Steve McKinney, the flat out bad Chester Pitts, and the perennial underachiever Ephraim Salaam. So maybe, just maybe, the Texans would have been smart to go after say, Eric Steinbach, Kris Dielman, Leonard Davis, or Derrick Dockery instead of giving a 30 year old Ahman Green a fat four year deal. Because maybe, just maybe, the problem with the running game in Houston is the same problem that is plaguing the passing game. No, not David Carr, the offensive line. Maybe Domanick Formerly Davis and Wali Lundy would have looked a lot better if they were not running behind a starting offensive line that wouldn't even be backups on some NFL teams.

As the tale often goes however, the Texans needed a fall guy, and they also needed a new hope. I mean, if the Texans get their fans hating David Carr enough and loving Matt Schaub enough, they will forget that the Texans passed on Vince Young. Right? And never mind that the team needs offensive line help, the best thing for the team to do with their free agency dollars was to get a 30 year old running back who missed 11 games just two seasons ago. Right? And forget that two 2nd round picks could have translated into some of that sorely needed O-line help, getting a backup QB from another team whose most glowing endorsement is "Well, he has played well in the pre-season" is a better move? Right? Wrong. All so terribly, terribly wrong. The Texans should have stuck with Carr, and focused instead upon getting O-line help in free agency as well as another viable passing target (Drew Bennett? Kevin Curtis?) instead of blowing their present cap space on Ahman Green and their future 2nd rounders on Matt Schaub. Here is to you Rick Smith, showing that there is indeed someone dumber than Charlie Casserly left to run the Texans.

StatFile: Upset over Upsets

In reaction to the utter lack of upsets in this year's NCAA tournament, I thought I would grace you with a few stats to better understand how boring this tournament has been thus far:

-Coming into this year's tournament double digit seeds averaged 5.8 wins per year.
-There were only 2 such upsets this year (VCU and Winthrop). The previous low was 3, in 2000 and 2004.
-The high for double digit upsets was in 2001, when there were 9.
-This year marked only the second time (2000) since the field expanded in 1985 that no seed higher than 11 won a game.
-With VCU facing Pitt and Winthrop facing Oregon, this year also has the potential to join 1995 as the only tournaments without at least one double digit seed in the Sweet Sixteen.

As you might have already surmised by merely watching the tourney, I am here to confirm: This year could go down as the worst NCAA tourney ever in terms of upsets. May chalk reign.

Coach Chatman (Louisiana State ) conduta inapropriada...

Pokey resigned as the head women's basketball coach at Louisiana State on Wednesday after the university became aware of an alleged inappropriate sexual relationship between Chatman and a former player on Chatman's team, sources told ESPN.com.
The university, the sources said, learned of the relationship from an employee within the basketball program. It was unclear when the alleged improper conduct took place, but when asked if it had occurred while the player was a member of a team coached by Chatman, a university source said, "that's my understanding."
The 37-year-old Chatman, who initially revealed plans to quit after the postseason, said she will not coach the Lady Tigers in the NCAA Tournament. In a statement released Thursday afternoon, Chatman said: "My resignation yesterday has prompted speculation and rumors that far exceeded my expectations and it is clear that my presence would be a great distraction during the NCAA Tournament."
to the Final Four both years.
In 2005, Chatman received a four-year contract extension that paid her close to $400,000 annually, plus postseason bonuses ranging from $15,000 for making the NCAA Tournament to $70,000 for winning the national title. The highest-paid coaches in women's college basketball, Pat Summitt of Tennessee and Geno Auriemma of Connecticut, both earn more than $1 million per year.

Duke tem um "Bad boy"

A rivaldade entre Duke e North Carolina foi levada ao extremo no último confronto.
O base Gerald Henderson de Duke partiu o nariz ao poste Tyler Hansbrough a 14 segundos do final do encontro que acabou com a vitória North Carolina por 86-72.
O atleta de Duke foi naturalmente expulso e não vai poder jogar no Torneio da ACC.

Bush não sabe driblar....

Everything was going fine until President Bush dropped the ball.

Bush honored the Miami Heat championship basketball team on Tuesday, joking with the team in his usual manner. But Shaquille O'Neal got the last laugh when Bush tried to bounce a basketball to the 7-foot-1 star.

It thudded flat on the stage. Bush looked startled as O'Neal and his teammates laughed.