Newton's first season was 2023, with Hawkins-Jackson-Sanogo, not with Castle.
That Ross breakaway dunk he should have passed it off the backboard to himself for the jam. Would that have counted for an assist? ;-)
We could add Reed's assist production, a great first half of assists by him. Miller adjusted to this offense at half time so our offense stagnated.
That's Geno's advice to freshman. Basically, why do you think you were given a spot on this team? What do you do well? OK, just do that. Don't worry about the rest of it. It will come.
Our offense tends to run on a long clock. We even ran out the clock several times in the second half. Ball made an incredible three as the clock ran out. If Texas had pressed us more the above might have happened even more. Hoping the team can be more creative at times like when Stu broke for a dunk. This is very disruptive to a press.
Didn’t mean to laugh Orc. I tried to take it back. I think we need to relax. We are 10-1, beat some of the best teams in the country, including blowing out all four tires on an explosive Texas team and the best we can do is conclude we are not good enough? It is still early December for crying out loud.
I was going to throw Millender out there as a joke. Certainly capable, but that was not the game to give him minutes. Once Mullins hit those two threes Texas called a time out and after that they denied him any open space. When Mullins did get the ball he forced up some quick shots, which he is capable of hitting, but that was the best looks he was going to get out there on the perimeter. Hurley will fix that going forward.
The losing his dribble so many times was just strange. It made me think he was sick or has some kind of minor injury. I'm still confident he'll get to where we need him at some point this season.
That's way overstating it since Malachi had 9 assists each of the past two games - IF we have to make a bad analogy to football that's 3-4 touchdown passes. At most we are a hockey team whose first line center isn't putting the puck in the net, getting lots of assists but also creating too many breakaways for opponents.
Smith had two turnovers that hit Reed in the hands. The first pass could have been a little better - a little too much zip in traffic when a bounce pass or lob would have been more effective. But if Reed squeezed both of them, he’d have 9 and 1 (Or maybe 10 or 11 and 1 if Reed was able to finish). That said he overdribbles sometimes and his handle feels loose, but he consistently ends up being pretty productive.
Hurley recently said that the guards weren't seeing everything like they should. Is he worried? Probably not. But he's aware there is room for growth.
