While I agree with most, Boat's sack is overrated too. He is the leader and he wasn't in the first half. No one gets a pass for last night, no one! It was backless as far as I'm concerned. You don't get a pass for making a bunch of shots down 12-14, sorry at least I won't give one.
Mau Boat is double teamed, tripled team, teams converge on him, bang him and do everything to disrupt and frustrate him. And this is every game. I think he frustrates easily especially when he looks around the huddle and thinks "WTF???" Don't let the that fool you, he is still a 'Chicago's Best' young kid with a huge ego (which is normal) getting bruised every game.
TSam or anyone else can take Boat off the ball, or even effectively rest him on the court or off. Ollie has been giving him more rest but he gets back in and the opponents suffocate him further, even throwing fresh players at him.
All our opponents know by now that you stop Boat and your chances of victory increase dramatically almost guaranteed. So
every game plan is centered around Boat, and no one else on this team has thwarted that game plan. In fact no one else is even a
reliable threat to be concerned about.
I think he is just overwhelmed and appearing frustrated. He just has no fkin help and is not good enough to single handily win games, especially with this supporting cast. In fact I don't think any other player in the nation past or present could.
As for leadership, well he's got an inexperienced group of soldiers, incapable of hitting the target. Hard to win wars with that.
He also doesn't appear to be having any fun this year, his last. That would be a sad way to end one's career. I pity the kid.
