Brimah. Limited PT. Why? I hope someone asks Ollie. He had limited minutes in AAC too. Hand issues?
not the right match up for him. Phil better on the ball defender.
There's your answer. Amida is effective when he can slack off his guy a bit and be an off-ball shot blocker/rim protector. Against three pretty solid low post scorers, Amida can become a liability one-on-one as his instincts and foot speed are always a step slow. Also, I never want Amida posting up in the history of ever. That hideous half hook body flail thing has not gone in in over a year.
Other observations...
1) MAJOR props to Phil who came in and illustrated what solid post and pick and roll defense looks like.
2) Purvis for hitting two huge threes and then getting out in transition. He had 11 huge points during the game changing run and lead extension. Gibbs for sacking up and purely sinking FTs.
3) DHam was excellent and is extremely tough to handle when he penetrates from the top of the key.
4) Sam Jr. Why? Although it's strange, for no reason whatsoever, I expected him to hit that 3.
5) I thought Omar played very well in his short (9 minutes?) time. I'm not sure who's time he could have taken due to their bigs, but I really like his minutes.
6) Is it possible that one of those hoops was just too tight? We could not buy a shot in the first half and Colorado struggled mightily on that same hoop in the 2nd half.
7) I'm usually not one of the guys who thinks that every time we're breathed upon it's a foul and on the converse that we're allowed to rape and pillage without it being one, but I thought the officiating was just hideous both ways.
Some negatives; two of which are recurring
8) Maybe I'm delusional, but I feel like Facey is so close to being an excellent player. He does things that none of our other bigs can do. But yet, it seems like he leaves you scratching your head more often than not.
9) I've said this at least 312 times this year. But for the love of God, KO, why do you not realize that our scouting report dictates that the defense completely ignore our 5 man on the high screen/roll; especially when it's Gibbs running the point? I feel like almost every first half we are committed to running that set and what occurs is Gibbs trying to dribble around a double team and putting our offense completely out of rhythm. Then we are forced to go one-on-one which often necistates our "shot-clock" violation play. Amida is barely a threat when he's 5 feet from the hoop. Everyone knows we're not going to use him cutting to the hoop 12-13 feet away. And to follow up, why does it always take so long to make that adjustment? We hardly ever run that stuff in the 2nd half.
10) As an additional follow-up, why are our bigs (especially Amida) hedging so incredibly deep on the opponents screen rolls? It's the converse of the above except that a decent point guard will find the wide open guy. This also requires our other guys to rotate putting people out of position. Against Cinci, Memphis, and Temple this often put Miller in precarious situations with guys with deep position down low and just simplified Miller's silly fouling tendencies.
11) On another related x and o note, why did it take so long to figure out how to deal with the 1-2-1-1 at the end? How many times did we have to do exactly what the press dictated by giving the ball to our smallest, slowest guard in a trappable position before we made an adjustment? Raftery and Grant Hill called it immediately and Nance was shocked how we kept on making the same mistake. Call a freaking timeout and get everyone organized.
