We ran nice offense in the first 30 minutes. We had several half court dunks on PnR, including 1 ATO, a couple nice Cole lobs for easy tip-ins. Some nice skip passes to wide open shooters. We punished their overplays with penetration a few times. WVU's defense is designed to take you out of your offense by pressuring the facilitators, and I thought Hurley put our guys in the right mindset and spots to capitalize on their defense for much of the game. We got a lot of easy looks compared to the shots that WVU was getting.
Yeah but we know we miss shots often. Obviously not to that degree, but we aren’t a good shooting team. My problem is we don’t adjust when we aren’t shooting well. No one pump fakes on our team. I mean, how many times in the last few games have our players fallen for pump fakes? Why the hell can’t we do that. And we just literally don’t drive to the hopp at all. I watched 5 minutes of the KSU-Marquette game and saw more drives than we had our entire game. It’s so frustrating.
I would bet that most of those looks came with under 10 seconds on the shotclock after Cole dribbled without any help, then pulled magic out to get to the rim. What i’m saying is our offense is so hard to watch because we don’t do anythinf for the first 15-20 seconds then we decide it’s time. That’s not what good teams do.
Our offense was also designed to feed Sanogo in the post as the first option. We lost a huge chunk of the playbook.
Oh 100%. But a great X’s and O’s coach then gets back to the drawing board and find new ways to score. I’ve stated this in chats and other threads, but we never get our guards going downhill. That’s why Cole and Gaff and AJ don’t get to the rim much. Tyrese does because he’s a very aggressive player. We need more of that. We have too many guys that are either too slow or scared of contact. Great teams get drives to the rim pretty much whenever we want. We can’t in like any situation.
Yeah I think cole being able to attack the rim freely would be a decent brokered of this team’s success
It's been literally a week since Sanogo got hurt. There's only so much drawing you can do, and like I said I thought the offense was largely pretty good today minus the shot making and dumb turnovers. I bet our shot quality metric was actually quite high.
Well putting all the eggs in the Sanogo basket, which it seems we have, is a recipe for large stretches of no production and more aggravation like we had tonight
Imagine being upset enough to post after a loss! What kind of fan does that?
Pointing out that we were accurately pegged as underdogs is not gaslighting. It is in fact the reality of the situation.
And he got fouled a lot in both games. Definitely called 1 way.
Your perception of Polley is hilarious. He is not a very good shooter and he did not have an abnormal night. He puts up 0-fers from 3 against good teams all the time.
To say Polley isn't a good shooter is hilarious.
Polley shoots like Ray Allen 1 in 10 games and like Tyrese Martin the other 9. He’s not a good shooter. He’s shooting 23% from 3 this year in the 9 games that aren’t Auburn. Just like he shot 30% from 3 last year in the games that weren’t @Marquette or @Butler.
We'll just disagree. He's a streaky shooter. BUt definitely a good one. You exclude anyone's good performances and they'll look bad. That's a weird way of judging someone's ability.
When you're excluding someone's "good performances", and you're only excluding 1 out of every 10 games, they're not good. This isn't that hard.
If you look back on his career his percentages indicate he's a good shooter. He's shot under 38% ONE time. While averaging about 4 attempts a game. This season is 9 games old. Come and see me in march.
it was a bad loss because of all the mistakes that were made. where was akok? and can someone teach jackson and hawkins how to dribble and control the ball?
It's reactionary. After a loss half of this board losses their minds. They begin to have a negative view of everything. And i'd bet real money that 30% won't hold