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I got this idea when reading a Malcolm Gladwell article on Basketball and how David can beat Goliath. He uses a man named Vivek Ranadivé as a case study and describes how his Girl's youth basketball team were able to beat just about every team out there by utilization the full court press.
Ranadivé's belief was that his team didn't possess the skill required to beat many teams in the traditional form so they would have to beat them in an unconventional way. Therefore, they pressed all game long. Intercepting passes constantly and scoring easy layups.
Throughout the article, Gladwell explains how strange the concept of Basketball is. Essentially, you score a basket, retreat to your own net and defend it. In other words, you allow your opponent to walk up to half court with zero pressure. Basketball is like no other sport. In soccer or hockey, you defend your opponent in their end and don't just retreat to your half of the field.
This concept got me thinking. In football, after you score, you kickoff to your opponent essentially handing them the ball so that you can defend them. But what if a team decided to be unconventional and not just hand the ball over to the other team? What if a team practiced on side kicks religiously and was able to recover the ball 25%, 40%, 50% of the time? At what point would it become beneficial to the team? If, instead of your opponent starting from their own 30 yard line 10 times a game, what if they started from your 40 yard line only 6 times a game?
According to Wiki, teams recovered 20% of onside kicks between 2003 and 2006. What if a team practiced the onside constantly and was able to convert 30 or 40% of the time.
What are your thoughts?
I got this idea when reading a Malcolm Gladwell article on Basketball and how David can beat Goliath. He uses a man named Vivek Ranadivé as a case study and describes how his Girl's youth basketball team were able to beat just about every team out there by utilization the full court press.
Ranadivé's belief was that his team didn't possess the skill required to beat many teams in the traditional form so they would have to beat them in an unconventional way. Therefore, they pressed all game long. Intercepting passes constantly and scoring easy layups.
Throughout the article, Gladwell explains how strange the concept of Basketball is. Essentially, you score a basket, retreat to your own net and defend it. In other words, you allow your opponent to walk up to half court with zero pressure. Basketball is like no other sport. In soccer or hockey, you defend your opponent in their end and don't just retreat to your half of the field.
This concept got me thinking. In football, after you score, you kickoff to your opponent essentially handing them the ball so that you can defend them. But what if a team decided to be unconventional and not just hand the ball over to the other team? What if a team practiced on side kicks religiously and was able to recover the ball 25%, 40%, 50% of the time? At what point would it become beneficial to the team? If, instead of your opponent starting from their own 30 yard line 10 times a game, what if they started from your 40 yard line only 6 times a game?
According to Wiki, teams recovered 20% of onside kicks between 2003 and 2006. What if a team practiced the onside constantly and was able to convert 30 or 40% of the time.
What are your thoughts?
