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(11-24-2021 11:06 PM)dsquare Wrote:  

(11-24-2021 09:49 AM)Cat-Man Wrote:  The defense (rebounding) have been pointed out ad nauseam. What really hurt them offensively was Davenport being off. They aren't going to win very many games relying on DDJ to score a ton. He's too streaky. They also don't work hard enough to find the open man. Madsen comes in and he's basically useless because he can't get open to get a look. Don't know if that's his fault, or the lack of screens and passing. I don't know what to make of Newman yet. He seems to play hard and hits some big shots here and there, but he also throws up some ugly ones. Even his FT's are ugly. He almost air balled 2 of them. They barely nicked the front of the rim.

Most of the problems you're mentioning are routed in the fact that they did a very poor job of getting the ball inside all night long. When you do not get the ball inside you put an awful lot of pressure on the perimeter guys to create offense. It was really frustrating to get the ball inside to JD for that easy gimme and miss it at the end. Got to run more offense through the post, particularly against quality teams.

We didn't get the ball inside because we don't have much in the way of interior scorers (except Lakhin, who struggled). Ado is as likely to turn the ball over as he is to get up a good shot, Koval doesn't really have an inside game, Ody has some interior moves, but is still pretty raw and we don't usually run offense for him. None of them are guys you have to worry about or have to double. It's something we need to work on, I'd like to see Hensley get some time and see what he can do and also try posting up some of our smaller guys (Davenport or Newman) if they've got a size mismatch.