A good win, that should have been a 20 point win. A good win, because any win is a big one now. We also controlled the boards.
The adage “necessarity is the mother of invention” held true today with Sanogo’s illness forcing Hurley to play Clingan more minutes in the first half. The Big Two (Sanogo and Clingan) continue to shoot around 60%, so why not ride it Danny? Clingan has the ability to change the game. However, true to form we went away from that in the second half. Danny has got to coach better in that respect.
Hawkins has mixed a nice dunk drive into his 3 point mix. His explosion and elevation at the end of the drives are truly incredible. While we drive some as a team we shoot too many threes, especially with such a strong and efficient inside game..
I liked the early screen action on offense, more than in prior games, but on other plays we have non 3 shooters standing on the 3 line pretending they are spreading the floor. Rather have them screening.
With Jackson on offense it is simple, put him in the right position before he gets the ball. We did that some with inside screening and baseline movement. He is fine from the foul line, so I would like to see that as well. Yet, too often he’s put in position to fail 23 feet from the basket when he should be roaming the baseline and getting in offensive rebounding position. Take his three missed 3’s away and he just missed 1 shot. Over/all Andre had a very good game today with dunks, rebounds and defense.
Again we came out of halftime sloppy and non focused. Eight minutes without a basket and plenty of turnovers going back to the first half before a timeout. After what happened in Jersey, how do we allow that to happen? Danny has no sense of urgency in his timeout usage. Losing nearly all the 50/50 balls hurts too until mid way through the second half. Richmond’s injury helped the last ten minutes.
Diarra gives us such good energy but as a point guard he needs to get better from the foul line to see more minutes. 50% doesn’t cut it! He also dribbles too long on the shot clock.
I am starting to see the recognition that Hawkins is the guy you got to figure out how to get the ball in his hands in the last five minutes. However, we continue to be sloppy with the ball. Passes thrown too hard, guys not prepared to catch the ball, and guys trying to be flashy rather than productive.
We get the win but even in the last 2 minutes, a lack of shot clock recognition, an unnecessary foul, and 3 bad possessions in a row with seemingly no clue what we want to do. I also don’t like having no big guy in the game late. Sometimes they are a good safety outlet to pass to against the press.
The adage “necessarity is the mother of invention” held true today with Sanogo’s illness forcing Hurley to play Clingan more minutes in the first half. The Big Two (Sanogo and Clingan) continue to shoot around 60%, so why not ride it Danny? Clingan has the ability to change the game. However, true to form we went away from that in the second half. Danny has got to coach better in that respect.
Hawkins has mixed a nice dunk drive into his 3 point mix. His explosion and elevation at the end of the drives are truly incredible. While we drive some as a team we shoot too many threes, especially with such a strong and efficient inside game..
I liked the early screen action on offense, more than in prior games, but on other plays we have non 3 shooters standing on the 3 line pretending they are spreading the floor. Rather have them screening.
With Jackson on offense it is simple, put him in the right position before he gets the ball. We did that some with inside screening and baseline movement. He is fine from the foul line, so I would like to see that as well. Yet, too often he’s put in position to fail 23 feet from the basket when he should be roaming the baseline and getting in offensive rebounding position. Take his three missed 3’s away and he just missed 1 shot. Over/all Andre had a very good game today with dunks, rebounds and defense.
Again we came out of halftime sloppy and non focused. Eight minutes without a basket and plenty of turnovers going back to the first half before a timeout. After what happened in Jersey, how do we allow that to happen? Danny has no sense of urgency in his timeout usage. Losing nearly all the 50/50 balls hurts too until mid way through the second half. Richmond’s injury helped the last ten minutes.
Diarra gives us such good energy but as a point guard he needs to get better from the foul line to see more minutes. 50% doesn’t cut it! He also dribbles too long on the shot clock.
I am starting to see the recognition that Hawkins is the guy you got to figure out how to get the ball in his hands in the last five minutes. However, we continue to be sloppy with the ball. Passes thrown too hard, guys not prepared to catch the ball, and guys trying to be flashy rather than productive.
We get the win but even in the last 2 minutes, a lack of shot clock recognition, an unnecessary foul, and 3 bad possessions in a row with seemingly no clue what we want to do. I also don’t like having no big guy in the game late. Sometimes they are a good safety outlet to pass to against the press.