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Message: [QUOTE="OkaForPrez, post: 4209186, member: 997"] What we can depend on: RJ controlling the offense. Making timely shots. Playing gritty Defense. Adama drawing double and triple teams when he’s on the court. Whaley’s defense. Team rebounding. What we’ve seen about 50% of the time: Martin’s offensive aggression. Jackson facilitating well while ALSO minimizing unforced turnovers. Bench Scoring out of Polley and Hawkins. What we hoped for but shouldn’t expect: Anything out of Akok. Net 0 play out of Gaffney. With the last two written off, the ceiling is still substantial if we hold the givens and see the 50%’s stabilize at the same time. Tough to think Polley will be more than who he’s shown to be. Easy to root for, streaky. That puts a lot on Hawkins to grow up fast but we’ve been seeing more good and less bad of late. Better defense, better rebounding, more confidence. The only thing stopping him from getting even more minutes at this point is live ball turnovers. ‘11 happened when our freshman turned into sophomores in March. Lamb in particular. Hawkins growth is the biggest variable now. Andre appears to be digging out a bit of a dog day rut right now. I wish his early three went in yesterday. I’d love to see him hit a few more and regain his early season confidence. I think his offense increasing to a more consistent output is a higher likelihood than Polley reaching consistency. Martin is really interesting. He seems to fill a vacuum of need when other guys aren’t hitting otherwise he’s content to hard hat lunchpail it on the glass. I think we need to run more iso for him early and get him off more catch and shoots. You know his 3 is going in if he catches and fires in rhythm. One dribble, step back or hesitation and you know it’s a miss. 10-15% more efficiency out of Jackson and Hawkins and 10% more aggression out of Martin seem reasonable and enough to turn close losses into close wins. [/QUOTE]

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