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[QUOTE="ctchamps, post: 4492533, member: 37"]
Reasons why Andre might be hesitant:

Teams are packing the lane to neutralize Sanogo and since Dre is not perceived as an outside threat or a good midrange shooter it's typically his player that does the sagging.

He was stripped driving to the basket often (relative to his attempts) driving to the basket last year.

He's been called for charges on the fifty fifty block/charge calls.  Given his defense is so valuable we need him not to be sitting on the bench for significant minutes as a result of foul trouble.  I felt that his early two fouls was the primary reason for the Hopkins play/Providence loss.

So working on his outside shot, and even more importantly his mid range shot, are out of necessity all he could do for now.

As an aside it seemed to me that in the Creighton game Andre was positioned more at the baseline near the hoop than in other games.  As a result it prevented Kaluma from doubling Adama out of concern for a quick pass to him for an easy dunk leaving Kalkbrenner to guard Adama alone.  This may be the way we counter teams in the future  to help Adama and reduce some of the liability of Andre's shooting.  It could account for some of the reason Adama did well and Kaluma had 10 defensive rebounds.
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