Pitino: At Iona we’ll play EuroLeague offense with full-court pressure defense
Pitino left Panathinaikos to sign with Iona
During an interview with the New York Post, Iona coach Rick Pitino talks about Euroleague basketball and how Iona will play.
“The EuroLeague really helped me develop a total different mindset with offenses. It was a great learning experience for me. I think it’s the best form of basketball there is to be played on offense. The passing, the cutting. … They play with a 24-second clock, but they’ll move the basketball sometimes six, seven passes in a span of six, seven seconds, to create movement and good shots. It may end up in a pick-and-roll like we do, but they’ll create all that movement because their defensive rules are just like college. They can sit in the three-second lane.
Defensively, their standards don’t hold up to the way we play it.
At Iona we’ll play EuroLeague offense with full-court pressure defense”
Fonte: Ny Post.