Just a couple thoughts. Expressing them is a form of therapy.
1. Overall turnovers haven't been terrible, but somebody has to see that Tarris shouldn't start his moves to the basket from 15ft away. His success rate is about 20% and turnover rate about 60%. If he has to dribble 3-4x nothing good is going to happen. Either stop giving him the ball that far out or kick him in the ass to pass out and reset lower. Tarris with 4-5 turnovers in games is not helpful.
2. Inbounding the ball under pressure after a made basket late in games is cringeworthy. I personally would rather have a big target like Alex catching the pass than throwing it in. He'll make the next pass or hit the foul shots. Catching, being double teamed into a corner and needing to make a hero pass doesn't seem like a great tactic even when it works.
3. What has happened to Malachi Smith? In the big games he was a totally reliable starter worthy player. Now he is a shadow of that player and foul shooting is a turnover. The ball gets bruised he holds the dribble so long. Are we really coaching him to run the point that way?
4. Reibe is so much more than I hoped for, yet 12 for 26 from the line kills his usefulness closing out games. Is his foul shooting really that bad or is it just getting to the line infrequently and not getting a rhythm. There are bad matchups for him, but in general I'm very comfortable with him in the game. My impression, (possibly wrong), is that a lot of his minutes are platooning with Malachi at the point and the ball not moving. I think he does much better playing with the starters.
5. I still have some hope that Furphy could help offensively in Mullins absence but doubt that will happen.
Lastly, are we ever going to play something better than our B- game?
On paper I thought we were a team with offensive punch. Not so much in reality.
