Start Time: Friday, November 11, 8:00 p.m. PST
Location: Mercedes-Benz Arena — Shanghai, China
Television: ESPN 2
“All of this leads to an important question for Jerod Haase. How can Stanford hide Dorian Pickens on the defensive side of the ball?
There are easy ideas and solutions. Simply have Pickens assigned to the worst perimeter player. But that probably isn’t enough of a solution.
Lots of times coaches will simply play a zone defense to try to hide a weaker defender. But the issue here is that Pickens was a worse defender in the zone looks than he was in the man-to-man sets.