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Message: [QUOTE="RuffRuff, post: 5121738, member: 1268"] My sense with Diarra is lots of his sloppiness is due to trying to make things happen with a group that isn’t getting the offense. More improvising leads to more guessing leads to more mistakes. Last year he was pretty clean at 1 turnover a game in 19+ minutes in that symphony. I’m staying bullish on Hassan. My guess is Hurley exhausts trying AM at the starting PG, and if it just doesn’t work out Hassan is the guy. Once the pace naturally slows down against good teams in the half court, so will Hassan. He’ll be fine. He needs to start hitting open threes at the same rate he did last year. We cannot play Solo, Ross, or Nowell there regularly. Solo has no dribble game whatsoever, he’s purely spot up at this point. That’s something he needs to develop if he wants any chance of NBA. I was actually hoping to see a bit more with him on the dribble after all the glowing feedback from the summer. I see these options only in cases as breathers, unique matchups or big leads. One of the things that stunts a guy like AM with the roll and lob is that he may not be able to see it as well. Our guards were huge last year. He has shown some improvement in taking it to the rim on both sides of the lane, so if he can show that as a regular threat it does set up the lob nicely. Liam would be the guy to set up the lob well but once he commits to the rim he doesn’t see anything else but the rim. Love his game but his passing so far has been pretty meh. As a whole this group this team doesn’t see the floor as well as last year - hard to tell how much of it is reps versus instincts. [/QUOTE]

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