{"id":19166,"date":"2014-08-29T11:00:31","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T16:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mensbasketballhoopscoop.com\/?p=19166"},"modified":"2014-09-06T18:22:42","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T23:22:42","slug":"eastern-illinois-panthers-blob-play-john-zall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mensbasketballhoopscoop.com\/eastern-illinois-panthers-blob-play-john-zall\/","title":{"rendered":"Eastern Illinois Panthers Blob Play by John Zall"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eastern Illinois Panthers Blob Play by John Zall<\/em><\/strong><\/h1>\n

The Eastern Illinois Panthers finished a game under .500 in the Ohio Valley Conference and return a majority of their impact guys this upcoming season. A big strength of their offense was scoring on possessions that started with them taking the ball out of bounds on the baseline. These possessions are commonly referred to as baseline-out-of-bounds or BLOB; and 2nd year Head Coach Jay Spoonhour was one of the best in the country at getting his team to execute on these specific possessions.<\/p>\n

For the season, the Eastern Illinois Panthers averaged 6.5 points per game on BLOB possessions, a number that put them first among all NCAA Division I schools. They scored at an average rate of .924 points-per-possession(PPP), placing them in the top 80% in the country. During BLOB possessions Eastern Illinois also hit 51% of their shots, good for 6th overall in the entire country. When they weren\u2019t hitting shots, they got to the free throw line 13% of the time, good for 54th overall in the country.<\/p>\n

As you will see in the ensuing play diagrams and YouTube video, Eastern Illinois is not running anything severely complicated. They use the same 2 basic formations; a stack under the rim and a player in each corner, or a stack on the ball side block with the other 2 players somewhere on the weak side. The key to their success is the unpredictability of what they are going to do.<\/p>\n