does anyone know any reason the Gibbs refuses to feed Miller in the post? A few times last night and throughout the season, you have Gibbs and Miller in perfect isolation for a low post feed. Gibbs just dribbles back to the top of the key, where most defenses play our guards way up high and we end up dribbling back to the half court line to switch sides of the court. Subsequently, that's where our guards get stuck and make a desperation heave for 3 at the end of the shot clock.
So you can either feed the ball to miller with 14 on the clock and let him work 5 feet from the hoop, or work from the half court line and throw a ball up from 25 feet at the buzzer. Why would Gibbs NOT give him the ball?
I haven't been able to watch the team as closely this year as the last few, but I did watch a lot of last night's game with full attention, including the last 15 minutes. I saw the same thing. On at least 2 or 3 cases, Gibbs had the ball out on the wing with Miller calling for it in the post. Now, Miller didn't necessarily have ideal position in at least one of those cases. He was pushed well off the block. But Gibbs didn't really give him a look and casually dribbled it back out top where most of our "offense" runs in futility. Even in the case where Miller had been pushed out. You dump it into him. Let him see if there is a spot-up shot open. If not, he passes back out to Gibbs and reposts. This is pretty basic stuff.
The offense they are running seems to always get guys the ball moving away from the basket. They put very little pressure on the defense. And they seem to depend almost solely on an individual penetrating to open things up. Even off the picks, they don't seem to really look for the roll. Even with DeAndre and Giffey, it was pick and pop much more than pick and roll. Miller, Nolan, Brimah, Enoch are not pop guys.
Yes, I'm criticizing after a loss. And I feel equally that the offense they are running stinks even when they win. I haven't gone back to watch games from '13-'14 to see what was different (aside from DD's/NG's pick & pops) because it did look more fluid then. But I bet it depended a lot on the skills of Bazz, Boat, Giffey, Daniels making plays.