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I was listening to the pregame radio show on the way to the game with Joe D, and KO talked about how he wanted the offense to run through the bigs more. My initial reaction was envisioning a sequence of a guard passing the ball to Amida and Amida fumbling the ball or falling over and thinking this is going to be a disaster. However after watching the game and reviewing the stats (both game and season) it is clear that our most efficient offense runs through our bigs.
As we all know last night was an abysmal shooting performance. UConn shot 32% from the field as a team. However Amida, Facey, and Enoch combined to shoot 8/15 from the field, that is 53%, while the rest of the team shot a combined 9/38, which is 24% from the field. The bigs were twice as efficient as the rest of the team.
Yes it was not pretty. Every time Amida touches the ball in the paint its an adventure. Anytime he touches the ball I am thinking "oh he is going to lose the ball, he's going to lose the ball, he's goi....OH he made the shot!" or "boy that was one ugly post move but hey he drew the foul and got to the line." There is no question that Amida has one of the ugliest post games I have ever witnessed. It is a combination of him having butter fingers, inability to maintain good position or stand his ground even against smaller defenders, and his soccer background that makes him think that it is better to flail his arms in the air and yell "ehhhh!" and jerk his head back as though he got decked by a linebacker as opposed to fighting through contact and trying his best to actually put the ball through the rim even on contact.
But having said all that he is still very efficient on offense (somehow). He is shooting at 62% overall and a lot of his shots are not coming on lob dunks like last year. And he gets to the line quite a bit which is something our guards have failed miserably at.
Its not just this one game but 7 games into the season this how the bigs' shooting compares to the rest of the team:
Season Field Goal %:
Amida: 63%
Kentan: 53%
Enoch: 41%
Rest of the team:
Adams: 50%
Purvis: 36%
Vital: 36%
Jackson: 32%
I thought all 3 bigs played well, especially Facey. The bigs, particularly Amida, did a really good job in getting to the line. They shot 13 free throws while Vital was the only other player on the entire team who got to the line that was not an end of the game run out the clock situation foul.
Hence KO's strategy worked, and going forward the offense needs to feed the bigs even more. In the long run it will get the guards better shots as well.
As we all know last night was an abysmal shooting performance. UConn shot 32% from the field as a team. However Amida, Facey, and Enoch combined to shoot 8/15 from the field, that is 53%, while the rest of the team shot a combined 9/38, which is 24% from the field. The bigs were twice as efficient as the rest of the team.
Yes it was not pretty. Every time Amida touches the ball in the paint its an adventure. Anytime he touches the ball I am thinking "oh he is going to lose the ball, he's going to lose the ball, he's goi....OH he made the shot!" or "boy that was one ugly post move but hey he drew the foul and got to the line." There is no question that Amida has one of the ugliest post games I have ever witnessed. It is a combination of him having butter fingers, inability to maintain good position or stand his ground even against smaller defenders, and his soccer background that makes him think that it is better to flail his arms in the air and yell "ehhhh!" and jerk his head back as though he got decked by a linebacker as opposed to fighting through contact and trying his best to actually put the ball through the rim even on contact.
But having said all that he is still very efficient on offense (somehow). He is shooting at 62% overall and a lot of his shots are not coming on lob dunks like last year. And he gets to the line quite a bit which is something our guards have failed miserably at.
Its not just this one game but 7 games into the season this how the bigs' shooting compares to the rest of the team:
Season Field Goal %:
Amida: 63%
Kentan: 53%
Enoch: 41%
Rest of the team:
Adams: 50%
Purvis: 36%
Vital: 36%
Jackson: 32%
I thought all 3 bigs played well, especially Facey. The bigs, particularly Amida, did a really good job in getting to the line. They shot 13 free throws while Vital was the only other player on the entire team who got to the line that was not an end of the game run out the clock situation foul.
Hence KO's strategy worked, and going forward the offense needs to feed the bigs even more. In the long run it will get the guards better shots as well.