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(03-18-2019 04:31 PM)BlazerMatt Wrote:  I've been watching video of Brown since last night. Interesting team and fun to watch. They run a lot of motion, a lot of dribble handoffs, and are always driving and dishing. They lost their starting Center in early March to injury, and since then have played a lot of 4-5 out basketball, "position-less basketball" fans will love it.

Their Leading scorer is Desmond Cambridge, a 6-4 guard averaging 15.7 a game. He attempted 239 3's this year, shooting 32%. For comparison, Jalen Perry led us in 3pt attempts with 175, and for a more extreme comparison, UTSA's two guards took 317 & 296 3's respectively. Basically Cambridge is a gunner with more shot attempts than Zack Bryant in fewer games played, but he has more of a mid-range game than Zack and is a very good athlete (he had 52 blocks on the year. Gueye led us with 22 blocks for comparison. ) He is comfortable shooting over you even if you have him guarded tightly.

They have two more 6-5 guys that are really good. Obi Okolie plays on the wing and shoots 45% from deep. He's a good screener and seems to have a nack for when to dive and when to pop out off the screen, he's their second leading rebounder and can hurt you in a lot of ways.

Tamenang Choh kind of reminds me of a smaller Georges Niang from the Iowa St. team we beat in 2015. He leads them in rebounding, assists, & steals and is just a really good natural basketball player. I'm very interested to see who we put on him defensively.

They have two guards who are more of what I think about as classic "Ivy League" basketball players in Zach Hunsaker and Brandon Anderson. Both are 6'2, both are good three point shooters and Anderson can beat teams off the dribble as well.

Josh Howard is their second best "big" at 6'6 and is another good shooter (39% from 3) and plays a lot of minutes.

From three-point range, Cambridge was 28/114 (25%) during conference play.
He was 48/125 (38%) during non-conference.
In games where he attempted 10+ threes, he's 31/80 (39%).

Weird stat lines.