I was at the game last night screaming for them to give him the ball. He gets position but they’re too worried bout giving it to Karaban every single time.
He’s nearly unstoppable when he decides to take it.
Our offensive output for the last five games are 72, 70. And three games in the 60s. That is not very good and it absolutely is a problem.
That has only been true against lighter centers.
Exactly. Alex would be much better in Stewart’s current role as a catch and shoot guy and secondary creator/connector.
I agree with a lot of what you're saying but I think he does have consistency issues. The Xavier games are a great example to me. He had 20pt and 13 boards in the first matchup and then last week had 3/2 with 4 fouls. When he's on, he's an absolute machine, but sometimes he just doesn't feel like he's playing with the understanding that he can do that every night.
Oh the fouling does point to inconsistency and in those games no doubt it’s on him. Needs to be much smarter I agree. But we need to run some more stuff when he’s playing so he can go man v Mano Mano on the block.
There is a lot more to it than that. In the few games prior to this past Wednesday and in his first action against DePaul in our last game he played slow and small. Once he was subbed back in he started to assert himself but (pun intended) the grizzly bear was in hibernation for a couple weeks, then woke from his hibernation about twelve minutes into the DePaul game. I really need to see that from him from here on out.
Not and issue if we hold them to 71, 69, high 50s.
While that may be true what about AK being almost unplayable in the last game and personally losing a couple of games at the end . Hes gotten exposed this year . Yes no longer the fifth option on offense like he was last season getting the worst front court defender, now he’s a focal point of every teams defense and Dan Hurley hasn’t adjusted to take advantage of that which cost us the Nova game. I love Ak but he’s not a lead player ( he’s absolutely a team leader ). Dan Hurley should be using him as a decoy in end of game situations to get someone else open ( and not Diarra like in the debacle at the end of the Providence game, 4 points in like 10 minutes). We definitely lost a lot of talent, 4 NBA draft picks who are all seeing the court in various situations, But I don’t think this will go down as one of Dan Hurley’s better coaching jobs, Dan Hurley caught lightning in a bottle the last two years ( and yes he deserves most of the credit for assembling the coaching staff and the team) but we definitely didn’t make the most of winning back to back championships on the recruiting trail, ( until this upcoming season, our 4 man class is outstanding) our two man recruiting class this year hasn’t given us anything and that was after winning the first championship. That said, we are like 2 and 7 in one possession day games so with a little luck and some better decisions by Dan Hurley we could easily be top 5 with 2/3 loses, but we’re not. Rant over. JMHO.
