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Are we worried about our backcourt?
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There you go again, being the voice of reason!
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Not worried at all.
We run a complex offense but one component is the amount of screening we do to get one of our shooters a step or two advantage or mismatch on the defender for AK, etc. Just that aspect has been taking up too much time and winding up with whomever has the ball with 4 seconds left try and drive and make something happen.
That said, there is a lot more to this offense than just screens. When Braylon gets more into the flow he'll be like Cam in a sense: run ghost routes (hand up as if calling for the ball, but you are not the real target). With Cam he and AK would both do that, but now we need Mullins to do that with AK and maybe Solo too.
Ultimately wether we use stagger screens, back-doors, ghosts, pin downs, it's all supposed to get an advantage to a shooter while keeping the defense guessing and working. That takes time. We are always better in March than December with Hurley - both defensively and offensively. Making those reads takes a lot of reps, and for a combo guard who can call their own number, Silas is just about where Tristen was in year one with us and this offense. Malachi is a true PG, and can see things a little differently, but was also a 3 year starting PG at Dayton.
We're 10-1 and I'm sure 0% of people think if Reed and Mullins were 100% for AZ we would still have lost. But we also have Reibe well-experienced at this point, have Mullins healthy with 2.5 games under him so far, and Solo is starting to get incrementally back to form. Even AK is looking like a more consistent version of himself who is taking over short stretches effectively.
Not worried...
We run a complex offense but one component is the amount of screening we do to get one of our shooters a step or two advantage or mismatch on the defender for AK, etc. Just that aspect has been taking up too much time and winding up with whomever has the ball with 4 seconds left try and drive and make something happen.
That said, there is a lot more to this offense than just screens. When Braylon gets more into the flow he'll be like Cam in a sense: run ghost routes (hand up as if calling for the ball, but you are not the real target). With Cam he and AK would both do that, but now we need Mullins to do that with AK and maybe Solo too.
Ultimately wether we use stagger screens, back-doors, ghosts, pin downs, it's all supposed to get an advantage to a shooter while keeping the defense guessing and working. That takes time. We are always better in March than December with Hurley - both defensively and offensively. Making those reads takes a lot of reps, and for a combo guard who can call their own number, Silas is just about where Tristen was in year one with us and this offense. Malachi is a true PG, and can see things a little differently, but was also a 3 year starting PG at Dayton.
We're 10-1 and I'm sure 0% of people think if Reed and Mullins were 100% for AZ we would still have lost. But we also have Reibe well-experienced at this point, have Mullins healthy with 2.5 games under him so far, and Solo is starting to get incrementally back to form. Even AK is looking like a more consistent version of himself who is taking over short stretches effectively.
Not worried...
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Probably if you're asking who is the better shooting guard. But given Braylon is a guard anyway, we are just running 3 guards, AK and Reed to start.
Mullins is 2.5 games in while Solo is a Junior. Give it a little time, and Mullins will show he can drive better, guard better, and shoot better. But that likely won't change the starting lineup.
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Nope!! Only concern is Solo from 3. Not overall, no. Pretty good situation to be 10-1 while having some guys still trying to figure the system out I’d say.
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Silas' statline so far is not far off from Newton's first year here
Solo Ball is in the coldest shooting stretch of his life and is still leading our team in scoring on 41% FG
We're 10-1 with the loss being by 4 against the #1 team in America while missing 2/5 starters. If we were losing games, I'd have different thoughts. But my point of view is that Silas will get better with time and Solo is bound to make shots eventually, so we are 10-1 and a top 5 team in the country with a lot of potential to get even better
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- Silas: 9.3 PPG, 5.1 APG, 4.4 RPG, 2.0 TO shooting 48.7% FG, 21.4% 3P, 75.8% FT (50.7% eFG)
- Newton: 10.1 PPG, 4.7 APG, 4.5 RPG, 2.4 TO shooting 36.6% FG, 36.6% 3P, 81.6% FT (45.3% eFG)
Solo Ball is in the coldest shooting stretch of his life and is still leading our team in scoring on 41% FG
We're 10-1 with the loss being by 4 against the #1 team in America while missing 2/5 starters. If we were losing games, I'd have different thoughts. But my point of view is that Silas will get better with time and Solo is bound to make shots eventually, so we are 10-1 and a top 5 team in the country with a lot of potential to get even better
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Not worried as Malachi all in all has been really good and Silas had 21-7 in arguably our toughest game and a triple double. However, he is clearly slumping and taking a bit longer than expected to find consistency. I wasn’t surprised that Newton struggled at first bc he came from a much smaller school and was a scorer being asked to facilitate.
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LOL!!! What a terrible analogy!!