2016-2017 Season

jacobkdoyle · 02-18-2017, 01:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Bearcat_NTS

Would be nice if passed the ball instead of forcing up a shot through a double team every once in a while. Why take a 50% shot and give up either a wide-open three or a lay up? 16 assists and 30 turnovers since the Butler game. It gets frustrating sometimes watching him throw up a shot when guys are wide open.

Big man mentality. If I have it in the paint, I'm putting it in. Not that uncommon. I'll take the bad with the good bc his aggressive offensive attitude is a big positive in our program.

jacobkdoyle · 02-18-2017, 01:37 PM

Plus, our team AST/TO is off the charts. So if 1 guy isn't on par with the rest of the team, at least it's a guy who gets looks near the rim and is a pretty efficient scorer overall.

jacobkdoyle · 02-19-2017, 02:34 PM

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Originally Posted by 2bearcatdad

The more I see of Brooks, the more I like him. Like a lot of freshmen, he's too indecisive. However, his size is legit, he moves well, his defense is reasonably solid (particularly if he can learn to guard without fouling a little better) and his limited offensive moves look ok. I think he could be formidable by his junior year when we actually need him.

Another benefit to having offensive talent is that we can bury teams in our conference sometimes and get guys like Brooks some quality game experience. Yesterday in the 2nd half after a foul, Coach was able to call him over and give him a little lesson on the spot during the first FT attempt. I love seeing that stuff. And it sounds like Brooks has a great attitude too. I'm really glad that we have him.

2bearcatdad · 02-19-2017, 03:16 PM

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Originally Posted by jacobkdoyle

Another benefit to having offensive talent is that we can bury teams in our conference sometimes and get guys like Brooks some quality game experience. Yesterday in the 2nd half after a foul, Coach was able to call him over and give him a little lesson on the spot during the first FT attempt. I love seeing that stuff. And it sounds like Brooks has a great attitude too. I'm really glad that we have him.

Cronin was doing as much in-game individual coaching during the game yesterday as I can ever remember. He did it with Brooks, Jennifer, Kyle & Clark that I recall. Maybe others.

As you mentioned, some of that is a luxury of having a good offensive team getting a large lead so he can focus more on individual coaching rather than making crucial in-game team adjustments.

They were very effective offensively yesterday.

2bearcatdad · 02-19-2017, 03:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Bearcat_NTS

Would be nice if passed the ball instead of forcing up a shot through a double team every once in a while. Why take a 50% shot and give up either a wide-open three or a lay up? 16 assists and 30 turnovers since the Butler game. It gets frustrating sometimes watching him throw up a shot when guys are wide open.

If the biggest complaint about our center is his ast/to ratio; I'd say he's doing fine.

AZ BEARCAT · 02-19-2017, 03:49 PM

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Originally Posted by jacobkdoyle

Another benefit to having offensive talent is that we can bury teams in our conference sometimes and get guys like Brooks some quality game experience. Yesterday in the 2nd half after a foul, Coach was able to call him over and give him a little lesson on the spot during the first FT attempt. I love seeing that stuff. And it sounds like Brooks has a great attitude too. I'm really glad that we have him.

That is funny, thinking the same thing when I was watching that , Brooks had to bend down to put his ear down to coach. Great look.

GarradJ21 · 02-22-2017, 08:49 AM

Kevin Johnson has been having a type of senior year we really could have hoped for. His defense always has been pretty good, but of course we all worried about his offense. He started out slow but since the Farleigh Dickerson game he is shooting 42% from the 3 and averaging 10.2 Points a game. That's pretty good if that's your 5th best player out of your starters.

**waterhead** · 02-22-2017, 03:23 PM

Kyle Washington has scored double figures in all games but 6. There was only one of those 6 games where he played more than 20 minutes and in that game he had 9 points in 23 minutes. Had he played 30 minutes in all of them he would probably have double figures in all of them.

Also, if he played as many minutes as guys like Lawson, Ojeleye, Dotson, etc he would be behind only Rob Gray in points per game.

Would we like to see more assists from him too? Sure...but since he is the most reliable scorer on the team I would like to maximize his attempts as long as it doesn't border on stupid attempts. His rebounding isn't bad when he's focused on it. His FT's are serviceable. At 1.5 blocks he's not too shabby there either. Good for 6th in the league.

Bearcat513 · 02-22-2017, 07:21 PM

Playing around on RPI Wizard and given an ideal situation ( winning out while playing Tulsa, Houston and SMU in the conference tourney) has us at 31-3, RPI #7, SOS #60. Likely won't happen but that seams like a 2-3 seed.

Bearcat513 · 02-22-2017, 07:24 PM

Point is, we have the opportunity. Take care of business and play our way to a 3 seed playing in Indy.

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02-18-2017, 01:37 PM	#2682
jacobkdoyle Epic Member Join Date: Mar 2014 Posts: 17,011	Plus, our team AST/TO is off the charts. So if 1 guy isn't on par with the rest of the team, at least it's a guy who gets looks near the rim and is a pretty efficient scorer overall. Last edited by jacobkdoyle; 02-18-2017 at 01:45 PM.

02-22-2017, 08:49 AM	#2687
GarradJ21 Epic Member Join Date: Dec 2015 Location: Cincinnati Posts: 1,725	Kevin Johnson has been having a type of senior year we really could have hoped for. His defense always has been pretty good, but of course we all worried about his offense. He started out slow but since the Farleigh Dickerson game he is shooting 42% from the 3 and averaging 10.2 Points a game. That's pretty good if that's your 5th best player out of your starters.

02-22-2017, 03:23 PM	#2688
waterhead Senior Moderator Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 9,298	Kyle Washington has scored double figures in all games but 6. There was only one of those 6 games where he played more than 20 minutes and in that game he had 9 points in 23 minutes. Had he played 30 minutes in all of them he would probably have double figures in all of them. Also, if he played as many minutes as guys like Lawson, Ojeleye, Dotson, etc he would be behind only Rob Gray in points per game. Would we like to see more assists from him too? Sure...but since he is the most reliable scorer on the team I would like to maximize his attempts as long as it doesn't border on stupid attempts. His rebounding isn't bad when he's focused on it. His FT's are serviceable. At 1.5 blocks he's not too shabby there either. Good for 6th in the league.

02-22-2017, 07:21 PM	#2689
Bearcat513 Elite Member Join Date: Oct 2015 Posts: 1,395	Playing around on RPI Wizard and given an ideal situation ( winning out while playing Tulsa, Houston and SMU in the conference tourney) has us at 31-3, RPI #7, SOS #60. Likely won't happen but that seams like a 2-3 seed.

02-22-2017, 07:24 PM	#2690
Bearcat513 Elite Member Join Date: Oct 2015 Posts: 1,395	Point is, we have the opportunity. Take care of business and play our way to a 3 seed playing in Indy.