After what I thought was much improved half-court execution against HC, they seemed to take a small step back. Now part of that is due to playing a bigger and more athletic Fairfield team, but it seemed they were slow to get into their half-court sets and when they ran them they did a lot of standing around.
The team is a work in progress. Maybe Bazz, and Boat as well, need to get the other four to run the sets with more energy and precision and not do quite as much break-their-man-off-the-dribble attack.
Like it or not, that type of offensive attack is part of what JC wants. I'm sure he doesn't want quite as much of it, especially when it results in a lot of forced shots.
We have to keep in mind that this team is very young and a work in progress. Losing Kemba has put many of the players in new roles. Granted some are in the same or similar ones but have not quite picked up where they left off such as Roscoe & Alex, but they'll come around eventually. If Drummond does what he has the past two games against BE competition, then I'd say he's far a head of what I expected at this point.
Getting back to Bazz, his offensive game is far ahead of what I thought he'd be doing at this point. Hum...I knew he was capable of doing more offensively than he showed last season, but I didn't realize he was as good a scorer as he's showing. He just needs to develop more balance between when to light it up and when to get his teammates involved. He does need to start setting up his teammates and getting the team into their sets more often, but on the other hand, his teammates need to run their sets better and finish plays more often.
By the BET they'll be firing on all cylinders. But along the way they'll have some ugly stretches and some ugly games as they learn to put the pieces together.
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