Tue Jan 02, 2024 5:22 pm
Tue Jan 02, 2024 5:33 pm
#RollJays wrote:McKinney's Neighbor wrote:You're not going to draw fouls if no one on the team can drive the ball (or frankly - dribble at all). Most of our players will dribble a few times and pick up their dribble. Fouls are most frequently called at the rim and we don't have anyone - other than Baylor - that regularly attacks the rim.
This roster doesn't make a lick of sense. Zero ball handling, play-making, wing defense, or general athleticism. An over abundance of guys whose primary skill is set shooting...on a team with probably the worst PG play we've had since the MVC days. Mac showed up to the vegan festival with a cooler full of ribeyes. I don't get it at all.
Coming into that game we had shot more free throws than the other team in every game we played. It's pretty crazy to force 18 turnovers and only be called for 7 fouls. That's actually unbelievable.
I do agree that we don't attack the rim enough. Part of that is not knowing who your distributor is. Part of that is Kalk not being aggressive enough on his touches.
Tue Jan 02, 2024 6:54 pm
bluejayfan00 wrote:Exactly, and that's my point. Neither one of them are really playing PG or Off-Guard when they play that way. They are playing something in-between... and I think it's because of all the mental switching they have to make all the time. And that's not a good thing.
If you think back to when Trey was playing Point for us at the end of his freshman year, he was playing PG and ONLY PG because R2 wasn't available. And he did it really well. But he wasn't having to make that switch. Last year, they may have played that way sometimes, but I don't think it was nearlyl as much as Trey and Ashworth are being asked to do it this year.
The problem is... the whole reason that Trey came back is because they wanted to see how he handled the Point as a defined role for him. Unfortunately, and I HATE to say this... BUT, so far, Id' have to say it has not looked good for him. I really HOPE that it gets worked out going forward... for both his sake and the team's sake.
I could be all wrong about this... and I hope that I am. But my gut tells me that it has been an issue. The added pressure on Trey and even Ashworth (because he's prolly not ever played the 2 before) has not be positive, I don't think.
Tue Jan 02, 2024 6:56 pm
Tue Jan 02, 2024 9:44 pm
Chicagojayfan wrote:#RollJays wrote:McKinney's Neighbor wrote:You're not going to draw fouls if no one on the team can drive the ball (or frankly - dribble at all). Most of our players will dribble a few times and pick up their dribble. Fouls are most frequently called at the rim and we don't have anyone - other than Baylor - that regularly attacks the rim.
This roster doesn't make a lick of sense. Zero ball handling, play-making, wing defense, or general athleticism. An over abundance of guys whose primary skill is set shooting...on a team with probably the worst PG play we've had since the MVC days. Mac showed up to the vegan festival with a cooler full of ribeyes. I don't get it at all.
Coming into that game we had shot more free throws than the other team in every game we played. It's pretty crazy to force 18 turnovers and only be called for 7 fouls. That's actually unbelievable.
I do agree that we don't attack the rim enough. Part of that is not knowing who your distributor is. Part of that is Kalk not being aggressive enough on his touches.
Agree on the last part, but to add to the anomaly here. We tend not to foul and Marquette averages 14 or 15 a game. This was by far the lowest foul total they've had this season w/ 7 and the next closest was 13 in two blowouts of Georgetown and Southern also at home.
It's also the fewest called against an opponent of ours this year. Next closest was Nebraska at 10, and we probably average near 15 as well for our opponents.
Note on history here - we had 3 games last year with less than 10 called and lost all of them by decent margins (Xavier, Marquette, Nebraska) and SD State had 11 called on them which we lost also
Given our history, I'm a bit shocked that we made it that close of a game