This team doesn’t have a true leader yet. Something I feared coming into this season. I thought Dylan would be that guy but I don’t think he has the fire. He’s going to keep the offense rolling and make big plays when we need him to but he’s not going to put the team on his shoulders. Snoop could be that guy but he’s more of an individual producer that’s just going to serve his own momentum. Coleman isn’t there yet. He does a lot well, but he needs to score points for us. He’s the 3rd least efficient scorer on the team behind two bench guys. He has no consistent shot from anywhere on the floor and defenses have already figured that out. Bamba can’t be aggressive without getting into foul trouble. His play on offense isn’t more prolific because he’s timid and is constantly double teamed so, apparently, were just going to deploy him as a rebounder/shot blocker. Which is fine, but yeah, stop shooting 3’s.
Absolutely no reason why Jase or JY shouldn’t be getting more minutes if other guys are having an off shooting night. I’m still going to maintain that Jase is a strong option for a 3pt shooting spark off the bench and JY has a street ball flare and a high voltage motor that pushes our tempo when we’re flat. Jacob Young is the most efficient scorer on our team with the highest PER and TS%. He absolutely needs to be rotating wayyy more minutes. We went flat last night when our bigs got in foul trouble. We completely lost our **** when they fouled out. No one stepped up to close out the game. Still can’t figure out why Banks didn’t come in?? I’ll start questioning Shakas ability to coach offense if he doesn’t make better adjustments.
All that said, Duke was still a hard fought battle and our squad should have won, but the outcome was hopefully a positive learning experience. Not one constituent in the masses expected us to play Duke that hard. Tomorrow vs #17 Zags is another great test for us. Zags may actually be a tougher match up than Duke was.
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Last edited: Nov 25, 2017