Originally Posted by maddog07
Good news....... we competing with really good teams... woohoo.! We could have won all five lost games. For those who care about actually winning, maybe we should consider how we can improve rather than wish we were in a better conference, placed our school in a cooler city, had better players and were actually winning. Seems we keep testing the definition of insanity.
Maybe we should stop shooting so many threes, given we are not very good at it... got that Trey?
How about Crutcher getting a bit of bench time until he decides that passing around aimlessly is... aimless.
Let’s try running more, especially with Cohill as we aren’t very good in the half court against teams our size.
Perhaps more Obi and Josh together would improve our results. And saving their fouls for double overtime is stupid Coach!
And there are likely many other things to try, other than wait to play teams even more hapless than us. Something has to change for us to get better.
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Let's dissect that, just for fun.
1. Our #1 and #3 most prolific shooters are both shooting 42%. Our #2 most prolific shooter is shooting 26% but that's after shooting 39% last year as a freshman. Yes, he's struggling. No, he should not just stop shooting. Those 3 account for 73% of our 3's. It's 78% of our 3's when you ignore the walkons and people like Josh who are not at all shooters. Trey, yes, should not take more than 2 shots per game from outside at most.
2. There is no one other than Crutcher. SS is not walking through that door. "Crutcher at point is the insanity of doing the same thing over and over so do something different" doesn't make you smart, because by your logic we should try the popcorn vendor. It's just dumb. We don't need to try anything different to know that Crutcher is our #1A best option, and it's not even close.
I mean, maybe we should try Westerfield at center, because, you know, try something different.
3. I'm sure the 8 total / 7 capable scholarship players would love to get out and run a lot. That will help the 3 point shooting and defense in the last 5 minutes.
4. While I think Obi needs to play more and AG left him on the bench too long against Tulsa, he is 2nd on the team in fouls, but ahead of only Cohill (and Policelli) in minutes. There might be a reason he's not playing more.
5. "Something has to change for us to get better." You might want to come to terms with the idea that we're in year 2 of rebuilding, we might just not be good enough this year, and IMO we're ahead of schedule. If Jordan Davis could hit water from a boat we would have won a couple of these close games.
