But AJ has no ability to score while is he 25ft from the basket and his man has two feet in the paint. With Clingan you can dump the ball in he will keep it high then he can see the whole floor. If they leave him one on one he try’s to score if they double he passes back out. Sanogo would be forced to change his game a bit in this offense but as noted he can shoot. The only question is will they double DC. He has been great at put backs but he does miss a lot of close shots and not so certain he has developed the footwork yet to be a legitimate low post threat. But the whole point is we don’t know how it could work, but game experience has no substitute. So now it may be too late, if they started early DC would have improved more in the low post game by now.
Yes, I don't know why so many fans have blind sports around his limitations. He's slow, he can't really guard quick, mobile guys or move very far from the rim. You could absolutely build a defense around that, lots of teams do, but we don't have one. The simple reality is that we have the pre season BEPOY at center, and so Hurley wasn't going to throw his defense in the trash to implement one that would work with Donovan. I think he tried briefly, and that touched off our losing streak. Now Sanogo hard hedges again and we haven't seen the parade to rim by guards. The question is, will Hurley reinvent his defense next year?
If Clingan isn’t in then the other team gets more than one and maybe several chances to make those shots. If Clingan is in, then chances are they only get one chance to hit a perimeter shot. When Clingan grabs those rebounds, Sanogo could be halfway down the floor going for an easy two.
Bingo.
Even if two came off his own back to back misses? He could get 30 rebounds a game by just throwing it off the top of the backboard to himself I suppose. He's a very good rebounder, but the stats in that game were misleading.
ya, that 'rebounding his own shot' baloney was beat to death with ol joshy.
Got that from the Fox sports app so I don’t believe so.
Sorry, but no common sense, and surely no "eye test" results, allowed.
If fouls matter, why is Jackson playing as much as he is? At least Clingan is contributing on both ends
wait, whut? what aboot wall man? what aboot springs?
I'm going to look for AJ's "elite defense" in the upcoming games because I must have missed it against CU.
If you adjust the fouls per minutes played it looks like this. So not great and definitely playable, but still the highest foul rate of all the rotation players
That’s his problem. Either he’s not thinking or thinking too much. It’s not a lack of athleticism that’s making him go for a steal that he can’t make or bite on a pump fake that he wouldn’t have been able to block. He see’s the game so well on offense that his gullibility on defense is unexplainable.
Your quote: "Basically the only time we can generate a decent offensive set with Jackson in there is if Jackson is buried in the corner and we run some action on the opposite side of the court."
Clingan has his hands on almost every rebound under the basket whether he gets it or not and often is over the top on offense making him "look" like he's fouling. Mostly he's getting bad calls because of his height. Should he not try for those balls? Best shot blocker by far too also makes him prone.
A number of the calls that lead to the high number of fouls are questionable though, so this might not be a fair measure. Maybe because he's a freshman, maybe because he's not famous like Dickinson, but no matter what he should be playing more because of how much he affects the game in a positive way.