I think they have to shoot open threes to make the offense work. It only takes 3-4 possessions of guys passing on open looks for defenses to adjust to clog the lanes. It’s part of why TSJ was much less effective when Dainja was in games last year. The Underwoods talk a lot about wanting to shoot 40 or so percent of shots from 3 and clean up the offensive glass and play high possession games. When you get a lot of offensive rebounds being the 300th and whatever percentage 3 point shooting team isn’t as big a deal. Yeah we bricked some of the rebounds too, but we also got a lot of putbacks and dunks and second chance threes throughout the season.
Fact is they brought in guys to play this way and they didn’t shoot as well as expected as a unit. We seemed to get everyone on fire at once or no one. That’s why we either won by double digits or lost by double digits in so many games. Tomi is pretty ineffective posting up and leaves most shots short then gets whistled for being over the back on the boards. Morez can’t shoot outside of 8’ and Ben was…well, Ben. I’m not really sure what adjustments could have been made down the stretch with this roster and the injury and sickness issues we had. When were we going to implement the wholesale changes? Sucks the guys that came in that shot better elsewhere didn’t shoot as well here, but a lot of this massive turnover era is a crapshoot for all schools involved. For every guy you get like Domask you probably get 3-4 like Ben and Booth.
The idea of building a team around an 18 year old precocious Euro PG and a 7’1” finesse big man that allows the 5 out style seemed pretty good when you looked at the other pieces, and for many games it did. Unfortunately there were a lot of games it didn’t, and where do you pivot from there? Outside of Boswell who could really get to the rim at will later in this season? Different players had games they could, but not with any consistentcy. They weren’t built for that. They did that wrinkle though off the PnR with bit of a high-low set and more cutters to the basket down the lane, but we threw it away almost as much as we threaded the needle for a layup or dunk. Which is on inexperience and lack of chemistry due to being a whole new team and all the aforementioned issues.
A huge miss on this roster was not having another serviceable but that had a little inside scoring game and some rim protection. Having Morez out for 5 weeks really hurt. If Murph would quit buying overpriced homes and donate to ICON we could have had Brea and got Hawkins back.
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