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Message: [QUOTE="Ricker, post: 3893672, member: 1245"] I think these are fair questions and I have thoughts but not answers.. As a freshman I think Jackson is trying to help the team by staying with his strengths. Before the season I heard him say he didn't care if he scored a point as long as he helped the team win with defense, rebounding, and assisting. At the time I thought it was just rhetoric. It turns out it appears he meant it. Mindset is important. Polley is a combination of him and our guard play. His mindset is to only take open looks in rhythm. A pass slightly awry of his catch and shoot zone, or slightly late allowing him to be closed on, is on the guards. Not running well off screens is on him. Jackson seems to find him better than anybody with more of a skip pass to the weak side that has found him open several times but he hasn't converted much. Relying on Bouk is just deferring to your star who can be a creator. Its been bugging me that I think his handle has been real loose lately and he has developed the habit of falling down every time he tries to do anything. However, he has answered the bell frequently, plus he gets to the line and can rack up fouls on an opponents front line. He's made other guys better by taking off the pressure, and now the more Sanogo is an option, it in turn should reduce the number of situations that Bouk HAS to do it. It's Martin's scoring that is really erratic, His rebounding and energy has been there. Just make the 2 footers and he'd have 60 more points this season. He took it hard to the basket in the last game and blew the shot at the rim. Too fast, anticipating contact, anticipating a block so rushing, I don't know. Bouk, Martin, and Jackson allows us to play lots of ways. Let Jackson get the ball to shooters. Cross your fingers that Cole will be ready for a game and have any time to practice. [/QUOTE]

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