Since the departure of coach Tim Cone, Alaska has seems to be struggling early in the All-Filipino Conference and we can point that the main reason for this slow start is because the Aces are still adjusting to the new system being implemented by coach Joel Banal.
Although coach Joel Banal has long been an assistant coach for the Alaska Aces, he has inserted a few plays of his own and is trying to mix things up with a combination of a triangle and a free-flowing offense (which I don’t know why it resulted to a post-up play).
Alaska has showed inconsistency on how to run their offense and started to become very allergic with the triangle. All we saw are several post-up moves from either Sonny Thoss or JayR Reyes.
Although those two beasts has shown their efforts to score and rebound in every possession inside the paint, it has become ineffective as it creates a logjam inside the paint and has slowed down the offense to a point that it became predictable and boring.
Sure it showcases what Sonny Thoss can do and benefited Jay-R Reyes by letting him get involved in the offensive play more often, sometimes crossing your mind that maybe Jay-R can play better than Sonny as he has showed excellent quickness and mobility inside the paint.
Is Jay-R complimenting the game of Sonny or is he duplicating the same skillset?
It looks like Alaska has to choose as it is starting to show that these two bigmen has the same skillset and may not compliment or help the team in the longrun. (trade?)
Two rebounders, Two lowpost operators, two agile and mobile bigs.
If Alaska would always run a post-up play, it will take out the volume of shots that the guards are taking and later on, would take away the confidence and momentum of the Alaska shooters.
If Alaska is serious about continuing to run the triangle offense, they should refocus on it and apply strict implementation on their offensive play and do not mix up with the other playsets so as to avoid confusion to the players.
Or maybe, it is also the right time to scrap out the present archaic offensive style and execute a new and reasonable run-and-gun style of play which is what we see now to most of the PBA teams. With this, Alaska can maximize the open-court playing style of Cyrus, Bonbon, Julius, LA and Brandon among others.
PBA is now becoming a guard-dominated league, let the guards play their game.
Since the departure of coach Tim Cone, Alaska has seems to be struggling early in the All-Filipino Conference and we can point that the main reason for this slow start is because the Aces are still adjusting to the new system being implemented by coach Joel Banal.
Although coach Joel Banal has long been an assistant coach for the Alaska Aces, he has inserted a few plays of his own and is trying to mix things up with a combination of a triangle and a free-flowing offense (which I don’t know why it resulted to a post-up play).
Alaska has showed inconsistency on how to run their offense and started to become very allergic with the triangle. All we saw are several post-up moves from either Sonny Thoss or JayR Reyes.
Although those two beasts has shown their efforts to score and rebound in every possession inside the paint, it has become ineffective as it creates a logjam inside the paint and has slowed down the offense to a point that it became predictable and boring.
Sure it showcases what Sonny Thoss can do and benefited Jay-R Reyes by letting him get involved in the offensive play more often, sometimes crossing your mind that maybe Jay-R can play better than Sonny as he has showed excellent quickness and mobility inside the paint.
Is Jay-R complimenting the game of Sonny or is he duplicating the same skillset?
It looks like Alaska has to choose as it is starting to show that these two bigmen has the same skillset and may not compliment or help the team in the longrun. (trade?)
Two rebounders, Two lowpost operators, two agile and mobile bigs.
If Alaska would always run a post-up play, it will take out the volume of shots that the guards are taking and later on, would take away the confidence and momentum of the Alaska shooters.
If Alaska is serious about continuing to run the triangle offense, they should refocus on it and apply strict implementation on their offensive play and do not mix up with the other playsets so as to avoid confusion to the players.
Or maybe, it is also the right time to scrap out the present archaic offensive style and execute a new and reasonable run-and-gun style of play which is what we see now to most of the PBA teams. With this, Alaska can maximize the open-court playing style of Cyrus, Bonbon, Julius, LA and Brandon among others.
PBA is now becoming a guard-dominated league, let the guards play their game.
