You Coaches that run the Flex.........Tell me what you like & dislike about it. Tell me what type of players you recruit.

Tell me a little about yourself. Tell me what you do in your free time.

I was just curious about the Flex........I think I am done writing here.....to many smart *****!

ks don't stop posting and asking. For every *** like jetwildcat there will be someone to help.

I run flex with some teams. I confess, I dont think it requires all that much in the way of special skills. Take a look at the coaches handbook and the pinned threads for some discussion - but you will see there is not a lot of consensus

I cant right now, but I will come back and give my inadequate thoughts, but read those threads for wiser minds

In my seasons with Flex I still just recruit high SPD/ATH guys. Does it matter all that much what you run? I've not seen much difference either way.

HD hoops 101 tells you what is pros and cons, even though I dont think it really matter. The deffinition that HD gives flex is the same deffinition that the motion dribble drive offense is. Even though, I dont think in real life, the flex is all about driving and kicking it out to the perimeter.

I like the Flex, it's a versatile offense. I think it performs well at all tempos, you don't need much balance to have a good offense as long as you have a stud or 2.

If you follow zhawks' recruiting priorities strictly you should be good. Generally don't need good LP for your bigs if you have good ATH/REB/SPD, emphasize PER in the SGs because guys like bing back in the day had success getting a majority of his offense from a good PER SG who was fast. But this isn't any different from the other offenses...I haven't found anything drastically different between the offenses.

Flex is a deriative of the motion. There's more passing and less dribble drive. I look for good passing across the board and I like to concentrate my scoring in fewer guys a little more than in the motion. You definitely need a good PER guy or two but your big men don't need to be dominant. Just serviceable.

Quote: Originally posted by kspoorman on 2/19/2010I was just curious about the Flex........I think I am done writing here.....to many smart *****!

i don't like the smart ***** either, but i think you are over reacting. don't take it the wrong way, but i think you could have asked your question a lot better... generally you won't get great responses to extremely general questions, and i don't know if "tell me this, tell me that" is the way to get any answer. i think that is what the first responder was referring to. anyway, the answer above this post is a really good one.

one thing i like about flex is, you can lean on players hard. i feel like you do better with a more balanced offense in motion, but you can push a player or two much harder in the flex offense. also, flex seems to really take advantage of great speed at the guard positions.

Quote: Originally posted by cthomas22255 on 2/19/2010In my seasons with Flex I still just recruit high SPD/ATH guys. Does it matter all that much what you run? I've not seen much difference either way.

i would say it matters pretty much. not that there are huge sweeping differences, but there is no question i play motion/flex/triangle differently. i recruit with different priorities and set distro differently for sure.

to expand a little more, i think probably the toughest thing in team setup is distro. when i look at some teams' distro, even top 5 teams nationally, it is like... wow... there are HUGE mistakes here. so i think most tend to miss the subtleties of the offense, because if you have a team that you are getting 80% out of, then no, it really doesn't matter what offense you play. but if your team is really well setup, and your distro is dead on, i think it becomes much clearer that there actually are significant and noticeable differences. it was really hard for me to adapt to different offenses, because your gut is to use how you played the old one as a starting point. and if you recruit for motion like you would for triangle, and then you set up a team like you should for motion, its just not going to work right. so i think disciplined experimentation is the key.

i find that flex is a good offense to run if you like to shoot a lot of 3's. recruit for good per guys and you can score a lot of points.

Quote: Originally Posted By coach_billyg on 2/19/2010

Quote: Originally posted by cthomas22255 on 2/19/2010In my seasons with Flex I still just recruit high SPD/ATH guys. Does it matter all that much what you run? I've not seen much difference either way.

i would say it matters pretty much. not that there are huge sweeping differences, but there is no question i play motion/flex/triangle differently. i recruit with different priorities and set distro differently for sure.

to expand a little more, i think probably the toughest thing in team setup is distro. when i look at some teams' distro, even top 5 teams nationally, it is like... wow... there are HUGE mistakes here. so i think most tend to miss the subtleties of the offense, because if you have a team that you are getting 80% out of, then no, it really doesn't matter what offense you play. but if your team is really well setup, and your distro is dead on, i think it becomes much clearer that there actually are significant and noticeable differences. it was really hard for me to adapt to different offenses, because your gut is to use how you played the old one as a starting point. and if you recruit for motion like you would for triangle, and then you set up a team like you should for motion, its just not going to work right. so i think disciplined experimentation is the key

In real life? sure,but in HD, Im going to have to disagree with you on this one. If you take a National championship team that plays motion offense, do you think they would have the same exact or almost the same results if they played flex, or triangle? I think it would be pretty dead on for what ever offense they played.

passing speed perimeter are important for all players other than C's (meaning you need atleast a decent per rating for your forwards). everyone needs to be decent to great at passing. after that focus on speed, rebounding, and athleticism in order