this is what i want as well
bazz for 30 boat for 10
lamb for 30 bazz for 5 boat for 5
scoe for 20 lamb for 5 dd for 15
ao for 25 olander for 15
ad for 30ish ao for 10ish
giving time for gif to try to make it work somehow is killing our rotational development. bazz and boat are great players, so we put them on the court together. prob is that 2 much time together is killing each others development at the pg spot becuase the ball is going back and forth way to much. lamb is a 2, he is a major advantage at the 2. when he is at the 3 he is good and better than most teams 3s but not the major advantage like when he is at the 2. keep him at the 2. we need to get our 3 straight. stop with gif, give him another year of watching/weights. dd can score at times and you know what your gettinf with scoe. go with what you know. scoe at the doesn't hurt us. gif at the 3 can help or hurt. dd at the 3 can help and maybe hurt. safe bet please. ao has a nice mid range that ppl are just ignoring. blah blah he didn't work on post moves over the summer. your right, he didn't. he worked his ass off learning how to shoot with touch and become a 4 man. give him props for that. ad takes away alot of touches and crowds the paint some, that hurt ao's game but hes doing a fine job. recognize ppl! ad is coming along nicely. he still has a middle school i cant reach from 3 shot form but besides that hes getting there. some post moves and a couple lessons on shooting form will go along way. he has to change that form, in the nba that **** ends up in the 5th row alot. 8 man rotation, end of story.
I strongly disagree with Boat's minutes going down to 15 and DD getting the same number of minutes. Fact is, Boat's production has been much, much better than DD's and based on that alone you can't give them equal minutes. Calhoun has always had PT based very significantly off of how you earn it, and that goes against this philosophy entirely. I respect your opinion, just strongly disagree.
Not to mention, up until tonight Boat had hardly been running the point. He had been playing at the 2 spot when he'd come in... and yes he is a scorer, but tonight he got a lot more time at the 1 and I thought it worked really well. It is very similar to Kemba/Shabazz last year, both are point guards but both are also scorers. Main difference is Boatright is a freshman, so he's obviously nowhere near Kemba's level last year and is going to make frosh mistakes.
However, you can tell Boatright is a natural leader and will be a very, very good UConn PG the more time he gets at the position. He reminds me a lot of Kemba in his freshman year, only Kemba had more of a cemented role in an older team that already had its roles much more figured out for the most part. Boatright is a member of a very young team that is still figuring out a lot of different roles, significantly different circumstances. Giving Boat and DD both 15 mins makes zero sense to me. By all means, I'd love for DD to be producing enough to warrant 15 mins of PT or more. I just don't feel that he has shown nearly as much as Boatright thus far... and we're getting to the point where we need to be firming up the roles.
I would also like to see Roscoe get a lot more PT, as I feel he can be a huge factor in this team's success if he gets to where he was last year in terms of defense/rebounding. It is just hard considering he hasn't shown it hardly at all this year. It'd be nice to see him worked into the rotation at the 4 more, but I'm not going to beat a dead horse... most everyone has been echoing the same thing I would say regarding Roscoe's PT. Only thing is that I don't feel that NG needs to be benched in favor of RS necessarily since RS is more of a 4 than a 3. Unless we are going big and putting RS at the 3, he is definitely more of a PF than a SF.
The end... time for some sleep as I'm beat.
