As a junior Sanogo was one of the best UConn post offensive players we've seen outside of Okafor. It made sense for him to expand his game because he got almost as much as he could out of that part of his game.
Are you saying Reed has a better post game than Sanogo?
Understood with the use of the word mastered. We agree on the overall point.
My question from this clip is quite different. Info from practice is that Tarris is shooting (limited) 3's in scrimmages - which is Hurley's first step in getting the game time green light.
No, Sanogo had unbelievable post moves. I'm saying that if you think Sanogo had mastered the post moves enough to work on his 3 point shot, regardless of how he's getting it done, Reed shot 10% higher so should be getting the same opportunity by your logic
Cling was such a good passer he was more effective seeing over the d and hitting cutters. Adama for all he was great at, was not a great passer.
It's not overrated at all. It's the difference between a guy like Kalkbrenner sitting the paint and shutting down drives or being forced to come out and guard the 5 away from the paint. It's hugely beneficial for spacing in a motion offense, not as an actual offensive weapon.
To me that’s the biggest benefit for our offense. We saw it with Sanogo. If effective, a big man that can shoot adds a huge wrinkle when they’re out on the perimeter as a screener. It just expands the playbook and by extension, what opposing teams have the guard against, quite a bit.
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Frankly, his form looks better than either of them.
If you don't think Reed is better in the post than Sanogo I'm not sure why you're using this stat that would say he is to prove a point.
This staff has a history of making Bigs keep the main thing the main thing until they show they have that all the way down. Which I appreciate.
Because I don't care how Reed does it, he can kick the ball every time or use his head on alley oops, if it goes in 73% of the time then he's clearly mastered the ability to score in the post. And if you don't think he has, then Adama Sanogo clearly hadn't done it when shooting 63%
And Tarris has been pretty good with his first step up faking guys and then rolling to the hoop. Hopefully he can hit a few so when he gets the pass near the top of the key, his defender reacts and he can take it in hard for the and 1
Yes, and if he could prove capable of hitting a couple here and there it might make it harder for McDermott to play rope-a-dope with his centers and pack the paint the way he did with Kalk. Always seemed to fluster UConn.
