(03-11-2013 11:56 AM)Murph29 Wrote: (03-11-2013 11:37 AM)uchoops Wrote: (03-11-2013 11:23 AM)JackieTreehorn Wrote: (03-11-2013 10:55 AM)Eastside_J Wrote: (03-11-2013 09:46 AM)BearcatsUC Wrote: Amen.
Chucking up all those ill-advised 3 pointers without even trying to get it inside just drives me bonkers.
Who are you going to pass it to inside?
This is problem #1. We have no big who is a threat to score in the post. We quite simply didn't replace Yancy.
Exactly. Someone asked Cronin on his radio show last week about our team having a low basketball IQ. It seems the same could be said about some of the fans. Should hear some of the comments I've heard in my section during a game from the erstwhile John Woodens of fandom. Priceless.
The lack of consistent offense is not a unique UC phenonemon. Been a rampant problem throughout college basketball this season.
What are you talking about.???? Have you watched their offense I know thaey don't have an inside threat...whose fault is that? At least try ... these are Division 1 players...there is no movement on offense...even when they were running the 4 guards against S Fla...no movement..standing around and playing catch....pathetic...
I'm in the middle on this. Clearly our bigs aren't very good offensively and can't score. But just because they can't score doesn't mean they aren't good enough to at least catch the ball on the post now and then (and cause the D to collapse a bit). They are also clearly good enough (hell a football walk on is good enough) to to set a proper screen. And our guards are good enough to understand how to v-cut, make runs off screens and do more than just casually three man weave around the outside and look for a shot off the dribble.
So to me, while we don't have anything close to Yancy this year, that only tells half the story. We have decent enough players to at least catch an occassional pass down low and we have decent enough players to run offense better than we currently do.
Cheikh, Big Dave and Gaines aren't strong back to the basket players in the low post. And in the case of Big Dave and Gaines don't CATCH well enough to be used in an inside outside type passing game. How many times have you seen passes fumbled or coughed up?
Cheikh may not have good post moves, and he doesn't pass particularly well (which means he doesn't have much use in the high posts) but he catches fairly well near the basket and has some skills and I do agree needs to be used more.
Justin Jackson doesn't play well at all in the low post, but he is our ONLY high post big guy. But he makes so many effing mistakes in that role that the guards are scared to death to use throw it into him. And now he is injured.
So now we have Parker in the high post, who is effective but small, and Rubles who isn't a threat to shoot the ball, because he won't shoot the ball.
Here is the offensive breakdown
Cheikh - a 5 - only effective in low post.
Big Dave- a 5 - not really useful in halfcourt game except for lobs.
Gaines -has all the athleticism to be a 4/5 - not skilled enough. only useful in low post at this point.
Jackson - our only "sorta" 4 - not a low post, often unreliable in half court at high post. Injured.
Defensively these guys are a whole different story - but offensively this is what we have.
Very frustrating - but IMO this is reality