FreeKlaiber this reply is not shade at you, it’s just that your post was the last of many to claim that we didn’t do anything to get an inside game going.
Tortured myself and rewatched the last 15min of the 2nd half.
The tl;dr is that we ran great offense that gave Reed and Reibe many opportunities. As well a ton of great looks for our shooters.
We just didn’t execute. It wasn’t coaching malpractice.
Read the possession-by-possession summaries below if you want:
15:30- Reed PnR, Solo feeds him in the lane, he passes to a wide open Mullin’s who misses the 3. Reed picks up his 3rd foul on the rebound. Reibe comes in
15:00- First play in, Reibe sets high pick, rolls, gets the pass, makes a floater
14:30- no play develops, Alex gets called for foul on the high screen
13:53- Reibe sets low screen for Ball who curls and bricks a wide open 3.
13:00- Reed back in, sets high screen, rolls, Ross tries to pass in, not the best pass, Parham tips it for a TO
12:24- play develops, Reed is on the right block with good position. Alex dribbles from the corner, gets stuck in midair and makes a bad pass to the top of the lane. A pass to Tarris was possible but ignored
11:58 - Reed hands off to Silas and rolls to the hoop. Open. Silas makes a poor no-look pass attempt to Solo on the wing. It gets deflected for a TO.
11:32- Tarris sets up on the blocks, gets double teamed, lane is open, Silas nice drive to the cup left side, gets Gold to commit his 4th foul. A fine play
11:00- Silas gets by his man, drives to the lane, fumbles the ball in the lane and TO
10:16- Tarris sets 2 high screens, gets ready to set a 3rd for Alex, Solo beats his man, drives the lane, misses makeable layup
9:23- Wasted possession. Mullins gets ball poked out w 17 on shot clock. We inbound, waste 12 seconds dribbling on the perimeter, Ball has to jack a desperation 3.
8:43- Tarris sets a high screen for Alex. He is sealed off for a wide open look. We’ve seen him make a top of the key 3 many times in his career. It goes halfway down and comes out. No issue with this possession & shot selection
8:17- Reed seals his man in the middle of the lane. An entry pass could have been made by Silas, but Marquette runs a 2nd man at him and pokes the ball away. Nice D, tough look for Silas there. Needs to be better. We get bailed out by a foul call.
8:06- On the ensuing possession, Reed sets a screen on the blocks, turns, and is WIDE OPEN. Silas completely misses him. Bad coaching? Silas passes to Mullins who misses the long 3.
7:30. - PnR, Reed gets it, he drives, misses the layup, Ross dunks the rebound
6:30- the vaunted DOUBLE BIGS. Early foul, Reibe subs out. Solo drives into the lane on the inbounds, takes a decent shot, not great, but makeable and clean look. Misses
5:43- Set develops, Reed PnR, he drifts down to the blocks, Karaban comes off the screen, clanks a wide open 3.
5:15- Reed is in the paint area the whole time. Ross dribbles from the left corner towards the left elbow. It is CLEAR he is looking for Reed to get established for an entry pass. Unfortunately, Reed was really soft about trying to seal his man to make it even possible to give him an entry pass. I’m going to put this one on Reed not taking change and DEMANDING the ball enough here. If he seals his man, Ross can at least try to make an entry pass. Ball gets tipped out of Ross’s hands, we recover it, Demary pushes it back into our end. Interestingly, Reed is wide open on the right block. If we were capable of throwing a decent Alley-Oop, this could have been an easy one. Silas passes to Mullins in the corner who buries the 3. We’ll take it. But 2 opportunities for Reed to contribute. On the players for not making it happen.
4:28- Ross throws an entry pass into Reed on the left block. Over the back reach-in on Marquette.
4:21- Standard inbounds play to get a top of the key 3 that we’ve seen a million times. Mullins is wide open and misses. No issue with the play or shot, especially after he had just made 3 on the play before
3:55- Marquette goes zone, Reed flashes to foul line, wide open, gets ignored by Silas. Coaching malpractice? Eventually Silas gets fouled and shoots FTs
3:27- Reed picks up 4th foul
3:10- Reed down on the right block, Silas starts to penetrate lane, could have been a dish, but he gets fouled before the play develops
2:05- Reed has good position on the right block. Solo get bal in corner, upfakes, goes by his man, but is fouled. Likely would have dished to Reed if not fouled
1:22- Reed sets high screen, Silas passes to Alex in the corner. Reed should roll to the hoop but starts it late, Gold defends it well. Alex airballs the 3, Ross on weak side puts the rebound in
0:54- Stack set at FT line. Silas drives to lane and actually could have shot a layup. He defers, kicks to Ross in corner, who passes to a wide open Karaban who bricks a 3 we’ve seen him make many times before. Reed is under the hoop, gets fouled. Makes both FTs. Good on him.
We ran a bunch of plays that had Reed as a viable option. The “ignored him” narrative is not true.
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