i have read that an advisable strategy is to set your disto to 0 for the fastbreak offense. is this true or just in certain circumstances? or game by game? what would be an good distro for a good fastbreak team?

Just curious, but if "youneverlose", why would you be needing the advice of all those coaches with losses on their resumes? Would seem to be a bit counterproductive?

lol it was just a name. i am just trying to seek advice from several sources since i am unfamiliar in this area.

Just bustin' your chops, man. It's all in fun. I'd love to help, but in all the seasons I've played HD, I've never had a FB team. Not one.

I believe a fastbreakoffense will push the ball up the court, but obviously it's not always possible to beat the d back. I've heard it will change into a motion at this point, so you may want to take that into account.

I can't help much either tho, as I also never run a fb offense.

To answer your question, sometimes, yes. I've had a lot of success running a flat 0 distro against pressing teams, though I don't use it every time I play a press team(for example if they have one very good guy at speed/defense that's going to force a lot of TO's, I'll go away from him a bit more.)

Against other defenses, I have found that zero distro is less effective and often leads to your guards shooting too much. That said, I still think a balanced offense in the FB is a good one if you have the team for it, I just wouldn't zero it out.

I run fastbreak at D-II Limestone in Naismith if you want to check out my current squad.

on my other screen name,I ran a FB in DIV II and and DIV III. I had set my distro like any other offense and it worked just fine.

i have never used 0 distro with my FB team at syracuse-Tark.

take that how you will. we have had some success. but quite often we underachieve.

I run all 0's for any O other then FB. I like to have high distro for about 4 players, then fall off a little. I want 4 guys who can score over 10 PPG and 1 of the 4 who is pushing 20. The rest I'll live with between 2 and 7. I also like 1 big time scorer off the bench.

also consider that oldave considers an elite 8 underachieving

run them for a year and see what happens, my fg% has been higher with the 0's, but then again probabky because i make bad choices with the distro in the other games...

I would not use all zero's. With my FB team in Knight I find that setting distribution is the most important thing I can do to improve my team. I don't care what offense you use you should still have your best players taking the majority of the shots.

Also, all zero's is kinda boring no? What's the point of playing a game if you just let the computer do all the work?

i've run it both ways with the FB offense, and it seems like certain seasons all 0's work better than others. If I have some real studs, then setting the distro works fine. If I'm pretty balanced, all 0's works great, and I'd echo mtngoats' claim about FG% being higher.

In Season 32 in Crum D3, my Dominican team lost in the championship game of the NT and I set my distro that entire season. The only kid I lost after that season was a real stud SG/PG. He was the last of the steroid potential guys WIS allowed, finished 725 Overall with a 448 rating after subtracting WE, ST, and DU. I finished 28-7 that season.

In Season 33, I started by setting my distro largely based on what worked the prior season, though I didn't have that stud guard any longer. I started 6-8 and was pulling my hair out. I switched to all 0's early in conf. play and went 18-3 the rest of the way including winning the NT.

And to normalize things a bit, I looked at only games I played vs teams with an RPI in the top 100. If I include the 2 exhibition games, then I played 15 teams when setting the distro, and 15 teams when I went all 0's. During the 1st half of the season when I was setting the distro, my offensive officiency was 0.88. During the 2H, my off. efficiency was 0.974...and this included the CT (the SLIAC was the #1 rated conference fwiw) in which I lost in the semifinals and the 6 games in the NT against the top teams. And fwiw, my defensive efficiency for the same splits were 0.85 before and 0.866 after.

So clearly, in this example, it was wise of me to go with all 0's. Why that was the case, I'm not real sure. Again, I only lost 1 guy from the prior year and I reached the title game that season by setting my distro. So maybe I f'd up the distro big time in the following season, but I was using my best judgment just as I had the prior season. Whatever the reason, it seemed to work. Is it boring setting all 0's? Yeah, kinda. Can it work? Absolutely.

thanks yalll