Tarris Reed not being utilized

[StllH8L8ner]

Back in the Adama days, we could get the ball to him in the post and he’d score almost at will to prevent the other team from going on a run. I’d like to see Tarris in that role and I think he can do it although it took AS some time to develop into that so we’ll need to be patient I guess.

 

[pj]

If Tarris can continue to shoot 68% when he's being actively fed the ball and the defense focuses on him, then it would be a good move. I'm sure they are testing this in practice.

 

[SaeHusky]

I posted this in the game thread last night but why aren't we getting the ball to Tarris Reed? He's totally unstoppable and an automatic bucket on the block.

This doesn't seem to be a problem of our guys not being able to make an entry pass like we saw years ago at UConn. It seems to be an intent problem, like it's not even a part of the plan to try and dump it into him a bunch. I don't get it. I know our offense is really good but having him feasting down low would further unlock things for Solo, AK, etc. and it's an automatic two points for Tarris.

On a team that has trouble with all our perimeter players getting to the rim outside of Hass and Liam who is now hurt it makes no sense we aren't riding our Hoss. It was really frustrating we had three cracks at winning the game on our final possession and we never got it into Reed.

Couldn't agree more with this take. I mentioned this in the post game thread last night as well

 

[navery12]

I still don't get why Reed doesn't start

I'm not sure either and it wouldn't be my choice. But it seems like Samson is getting a couple of easy baskets at the start of every game, so I've given up on that changing

 

[RichCTBB]

It seems to me that scheming around Reed is low hanging fruit right now. The development of the offensive flow with the new ball handlers should be the priority and will be key to our depth later in the season....and then we can truly unleash Tarris and give teams something new to prepare for in March and wear teams down.