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Message: [QUOTE="navery12, post: 3907374, member: 6271"] Gaffney - The obvious answer is being assertive but that's a difficult thing to work on in the summer, so I'll go with finishing around the rim. He's not [I]good[/I] at getting past his defender, but he's able to penetrate a little bit. But too often he's out of control and throwing up wild shots around the rim (41% FG% at the rim this year) Cole - Not an easy thing to do, but develop a floater or something in between his mid range and layup. He can't keep driving and shooting at the rim in the middle of 2-3 defenders Jackson - Shooting. Don't care if he becomes a good or even OK shooter, but just make the defense respect him to open up the driving lanes, and make the misses be there for a rebound with Springs and Sanogo Martin - Finishing off putbacks on offensive rebounds. He had the most misses on shots at the rim this year, which is partly a factor of him having the most shots. Right now it seems like he's rushing things, take a second and go up strong, or kick it out to open shooters. Teams were forced to start sending guys in to get rebounds against us which leaves shooters open on the wings Akok - mostly just get healthy at this point, but I'd like to see him get more involved on offense. He has a decent shot from 3, plenty of room for improvement there still. But too often he catches the ball with no plan other than passing it off immediately. That's not to say I want him shooting or dribbling more, but at least make the defense think he's doing something Springs - TBD really since we've barely seen him, but just keep extending his range out. He seems to have a pretty good handle for his size, if the defense has to respect his jumper that'll open up driving lanes for him if you assume he'll be in the spots Whaley was this year Sanogo - passing out of the post. His footwork and touch around the rim is fantastic already as a freshman, teams are going to need to double him in the post even more than they already have. He had a good pass to Whaley cutting on the first possession, I'd like to see more of that (and more players cutting to the basket next year as we have better fits and spacing on offense) [/QUOTE]

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