tylerlindsey2111

College basketball is a 21-23 year old’s game right now. Tre isn’t this team’s issue, neither is talent for most part. Execution, buy in, consistency, front court presence/depth. Don’t allow yourselves to get caught up on small size or be prisoners of the moment. Tre is awesome, and this team has plenty of older firepower on the whole to be a solid team.

That’s a good win.

The reject, the throw and go off the horns set. All of that is great read teaching/false motion window dressing. Why can’t we get those type of quick creates all the time?

There we go, RT!!!! ATO, huge possession; horns set, zoom action, reject into pick and roll, down screen for a wide open three for your lottery guy. Who cares it didn’t go in; where is that all the time?!

Great defensive possession by big to big switching and by Tre Johnson. Board given up by Larry, but his effort was undeniable.

His seal on hi-lo is so piss poor it’s not even worth commenting on.

I am the furthest thing from a Shed/Onyema fan. Kaluma is awesome.

A lot more two post, high low flash tonight. Do I love it? No. But at least it’s an identity we can go to when in flux.

Larry is from Frisco, went to Lone Star and the iSchool. Idk about Kent.

Pope is not this team’s issue; the idea Pope is a supplier of offense for others is an issue.

Agreed, but that’s a possession that was doomed to die from outset. He’s given ball in iso set after Kent has taken life out of possession. No, he’s not a finisher or driver, but we’ve gotta be better in our initial after a make flow than just coming down and standing.

Big thing we’ve learned this year in portal era.. just because you were good at a good mid major, does not mean you can be really effective at this level. Larry/Kent are good examples. Not terrible, but nowhere near productive, good SEC players.

Next possession after the Grill made 3 is an awful possession resulting in a <15% three point shot.

Early pitch action in transition is a great plus. Little action like that creates advantage. Are we always going to get a made 3? No, but it triggers the dominoes to allow us to get an advantage downhill. Tempo/pace would help this group SUBSTANTIALLY.

While I agree more teams are foregoing the use of old school "continuity" base offenses, more teams are generally playing out of called concepts that are layered to provide triggers to create advantages in space for their best players (funny enough, a lot of these initial create actions have Princeton as a origin point). Alignment typically is the first call and decision in this, such as a horns look or a domino look or a traditional 5 out spacing. There are still teams running continuity; Auburn runs a version of the Flex, Gonzaga and Arizona are ball screen continuity, etc. But more teams are going with the UCONN model, or attempting to. Texas appears to be very limited in their creates, and lack execution in the simplest of these. Leads to a lot of stagnation, a ton of stationary dribbling (not to be confused with driving) and a lot of out of rhythm jump shots, or poor post ups.. (Onyema, anyone?) From an offensive philosophy perspective, in essentially year three, this philosophy gives me great concern when paired with style of player being sought by staff.