Perfectly said.
This keeps being an argument but I’m not sure I buy it. I think you have to try something and maybe he responds well to coming off the bench. I’m sure his confidence is not sky high right now. Maybe a bench role takes some of the pressure off mentally.
I want Ball to focus more on his freaky atheticism and just stop shooting threes. Drive and dunk and focus on doing the little things to help the team. Stop the hero ball. We have better options.
Hero ball is unfair. He’s generally been taking good shots, he’s just not making them.
They beat NC State who had fewer wins and 13 losses didn't they? Who did NC state beat that makes them more worthy than the Hall? The ACC got 8 teams in and all but 1 are on the couch at home. And the one remaining was getting slapped around by Siena till the end. The committee is enthralled with the ACC for some reason.
you have to give him some credit, ha called for a big night out of Karaban for that game last night
So rarely that we're not even a year removed from them winning a title. Incredible.
He doesn't have functional athleticism driving into the lane, he's never been a guy who can get on the rim while in college. His best bet at finding a way to contribute is to get back to the 2-3 dribble middy that he was excellent at earlier in the season when his 3ball was still terrible, but he's pretty much abandoned it.
It is crunch time. Play your best five. Ross brings energy and has made plays on both ends of the floor that Solo hasn’t shown he can do and there is no more slack in the rope. Ross’s defense and not Solo’s slump is the reason why he should start. Ross brings us an adequate outside threat and he has been passing well. Solo coming in for Mullins makes more sense to me.
"tHe tRuTh"
That Furman game was an awesome setup for the rest of the tournament, IF we can shoot it somewhat decent. Tarris put such a target on his back that it will give the rest of the team more open looks, if we can capitalize on that, we will be in good shape.
Glad to see him have some shots go down of course, but he felt like a liability out there at times. Hopefully he can clean that up while maintaining the scoring. Does anyone know what his +/- was that game?
Its sad when the Reddit game thread is more enjoyable.
I wish we had a bruizer deep on the bench we could put out there early and send him a message
Feel like Braylon has been called for stepping on the line almost every game…. Are the courts just bigger in Indiana?
Just stop.
For what it's worth, I made the call Alex would and needed to step up and be the guy last night against a pretty meh UCLA team. It was nice timing for Alex to have the best game of his career, no doubt. I'm happy for him. We could not rely on Solo/Mullins & knew they'd be keying in on Tarris.
I woke up at 58-54 at exactly 4 am my time on the dot, I think 7:11 left or so. Stuck with them until it was clear they were winning, 69-57 around 1:40 left and went back to sleep but glad they won 11-3 portion of the game that I was up for.
If Mullins continues to shoot the midrange I’m fine with that.
It's great to get to the second weekend - season of stamped success isn't complete. We need to collect one more win, and get to that game for a chance to get to the Final 4. Let's play up to our seed, and have that chance, and at least play well if not win.
“Hero Ball” has become a fallback criticism for anyone missing a shot. Player takes an off balance shot at the end of the shot clock, and half of the chat room says it’s “hero ball”. Guy gets past his defender and doesn’t finish — “hero ball”. Player misses open jump shot — “hero ball”.
