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Chief’s Briefs - Creighton Edition

Ok Andre 3 for 11 but how many shots were contested?
Defenders slack off.
Newton only had 2 pts. Karaban, Jackson and Newton only 13 pts combined.
Poor guard play costs us on the road.
Inability to drive to the hoop. We never get to the line.
If you're not making your shots drive and see if you can score from the foul line.
We are 8- 7, on top of the bottom half of the BE.
 
fatlucy said:
Yeah, bc Jackson’s defender was clogging the lanes. Tough to get open when there’s an extra defender playing a one man zone.
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So Jackson’s man was covering the other four guards all at once - wow.
 
Punkbo said:
@Chief00 I’m not usually a Double Bigs guy, but the second half today screamed Double Bigs. Sanogo and Clingan were both playing with high energy and Sanogo was showcasing his perimeter game. Seemed like a great opportunity.
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The Double Big would have changed everything today and opened things up for our guards.
 
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Chief00 said:
So Jackson’s man was covering the other four guards all at once - wow.
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I will agree with you that Newton did Andre no favors by constantly deferring the ball on offense. Andre is at his best during the 2nd chance plays or scramble drills.

Newton was giving him the ball with 20 seconds on the clock and having him run the offense. It didn't work. And it's also why coached benched Newton down the stretch. He was uninterested this game.
 
Chief00 said:
Just wanted to address Andre’s shooting. When they use his man to double, he should seldom be in the position to take bad shots. He controls where he is on the court and if he’s not comfortable shooting there, he should go where he is. Personally, I would like to see him on the baseline around the basket. Also, at the foul line but take a foul shot not a floater. He can make foul shots. Also he can shoot 3’s from two spots, so in the glow of the game he should do that.
If we had double bigs I would love to run him off that for drives.
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Chief, one thing you fail to mention is that ill-advised 3 from Andre with a few minutes left. I know Alex should never have thrown that skip pass to Dre, but all Andre needed to do was shot fake and his man would have either jumped into him (he was running at Andre) or Andre would have had a clear baseline drive for a dunk. He just isn’t playing smart basketball.
 
Mets8692 said:
The problem is Andre's man gets to sag 20 feet off him and sit in the paint. That leaves no room for drives. If ANY team we play going forward doesn't sag off Jackson like Creighton did should fire their coaching staff.
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I would take it a step further. If im coaching the other team I literally won’t guard him like at all. Just have play a 1 man zone at the free throw line and either double hawk off curls or double Sanogo, or clog Newton’s lane to drive.
 
Giddyup5 said:
I would take it a step further. If im coaching the other team I literally won’t guard him like at all. Just have play a 1 man zone at the free throw line and either double hawk off curls or double Sanogo, or clog Newton’s lane to drive.
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We control where Andre plays. We need his offensive rebounding, so Ibwoukd play him on the baseline.
 
Andre was a huge liability today. The bad is starting to outweigh the good, which does not bode well. He needs to just take the ball early in the game and try to dunk it, I don’t care if he ends up with a charge, it’s better than the garbage he’s been putting up.

Tristan disappeared today. Was not aggressive and didn’t take it to the rim once. Seemed like he was afraid of kalk blocking his shot or something.

Thanks Adama for keeping us in the game.
 
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GHSWolverines said:
Sorry Chief but your too much personally connected to AJ. Take your blinders off.
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Chief has it right. It's easy to blame Jackson. But the stats are not lying. His shooting was as good or better than Alleyne, Newton, Hawk and Joey. While also grabbing good boards and being disruptive. He was NOT the reason we lost.
 
Need a better game from Newton.

2pts, 4 assists in 26 minutes. He plays better and we win.

at least Kenpom didn't punish us - our rating is basically exactly the same.
 
Your insistence on double bigs is wild, even Jim Jackson made the point during the broadcast that UConn couldn’t do that in this type of matchup. Then McDermott during the broadcast says: “we’re getting them to take the shots we want them to take.” Allow Jackson to shoot 11 times sure was what he wanted. When Hurley gets in these tight games against good coaches, he just hasn’t proven he can break through.
 
Chief, Andre is my favorite Husky but Hurley has to revamp our offense when he is in the game. McDermit was miked up basically saying that him and Sanogo shooting was what they wanted. I don’t know what the plan will be but we have to adapt to Andre’s offensive deficiencies shooting and driving.
 
Palatine said:
Chief has it right. It's easy to blame Jackson. But the stats are not lying. His shooting was as good or better than Alleyne, Newton, Hawk and Joey. While also grabbing good boards and being disruptive. He was NOT the reason we lost.
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I am not claiming he is the reason we lost. However, as I sound like a broken record, playing 5 on 4 is not a good recipe.
 
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Fatroony5 said:
When Hurley gets in these tight games against good coaches, he just hasn’t proven he can break through.
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And the good coaches are beginning to key in on this too.

It’s tough when you have a “liability” as the head coach.

Mind blowing stuff today from dopey Dan.
 
This is so simple its strange that certain Andre Jackson homers can't see it. Jackson has it some games, and others he is borderline unplayable on the offensive end. Hurley lost us this game when he didn't sub out Dre down the home stretch (about the 6 minute mark). We had a number of consecutive bad possessions as a result. When Jackson has it going he is truly a special player - but when he doesn't he will lose us games. It's on the coach to realize which version we have night in and night out, and make the substitutions needed.
 
Chief00 said:
Andre shot better today than 3 of our guards.
Jackson 3-11
Newton 1-4
Joey C 0-2
Alleyne 1-6
And Hawkins shot a few % better at 3-13
The backcourt did not do their jobs.
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Unfortunately, he also shot more often than any of those other guards, which should not happen. I do agree that he should be around the basket, especially if Sanogo is at the top of the circle. I'm amazed we were able to keep it close today.

We've been praised as a good rebounding team, but at times we seem very weak on the fundamentals of rebounding.

Would like to see Hawkins make some v-cuts rather than just running in an arc so frequently, and predictably.

I thought the refs were okay, committing only a normal number of mistakes.

Creighton game plans as well as any team in the country.

Will we ever start helping on defense when the ball is in the paint?
 
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August_West said:
Lol no.
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August. That is exactly what happens. Also, having a defensive player in the lane allows the defense to jump screens and sell out on the pick. You know you have help there.

I actually don’t think any of andre’s shots were poor shots. It just isn’t his game though, and ya gotta give credit to McDermott for exploiting Jackson’s weakness.

Hurley’s options are not great.

1. Bench Jackson and lose best defender, good rebounder , athleticism, speed and energy.

2. Okay Jackson for intangibles, but in half court go 4 on -5.

Neither are good options.
 
JohnFSilver said:
August. That is exactly what happens. Also, having a defensive player in the lane allows the defense to jump screens and sell out on the pick. You know you have help there.

I actually don’t think any of andre’s shots were poor shots. It just isn’t his game though, and ya gotta give credit to McDermott for exploiting Jackson’s weakness.

Hurley’s options are not great.

1. Bench Jackson and lose best defender, good rebounder , athleticism, speed and energy.

2. Okay Jackson for intangibles, but in half court go 4 on -5.

Neither are good options.
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Alleyne not answer because of all intangibles you just mentioned plus the same 3 pt shooting %
 
August_West said:
Alleyne not answer because of all intangibles you just mentioned plus the same 3 pt shooting %
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yes. That the issue tbh. I will say they wouldn’t play Alleyne the same way, however.

Maybe go to a more classic offense and have Jackson play the classic 4-man on offense and be a wing defender on defense.

You can’t play 4-out if all 4 of your guys out on the perimeter can’t shoot from distance.
 
Punkbo said:
@Chief00 I’m not usually a Double Bigs guy, but the second half today screamed Double Bigs. Sanogo and Clingan were both playing with high energy and Sanogo was showcasing his perimeter game. Seemed like a great opportunity.
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And against Seton Hall who can’t shoot outside it’s a no brainer to go 2 -3 zone (not that 1-3/1 crap) and go Double Big.
 
XLCenterFan said:
This loss is not on Andre. We have no real PG. We held them to 0 field goals in the second half for almost 8 minutes straight! Andre does that. This is on our offense. The D was filthy today. Where was AK? Newton? Even Hawk played meh. Sanogo was the only one to show up.
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Hawk and AK were probably being guarded by AJ's "defender". Lane was too clogged for Newtown to do what he'd been doing the last couple games but I still would've loved for him to drive more. More than half of Sanogo's points were from 3 because they left him alone out there while bunching everything up inside
 
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