A good win for sure. But does reveal the apparently considerable imbalance of scoring skills from our scoring 4 to everyone else. Collins knows what he's doing when he plays Brooks and Martinelli all those minutes. We're obviously at-risk if one or more. of them get in foul trouble. I won't do the history thing here, but there have been some extremely good teams over the years that have gotten as far as the Final Four with little or no bench scoring.
Yep, and he's the only guy who can make clutch free throws. We would have won the Michigan game, I believe, if he hadn't been called for that flagrant 2. He left the game with over 9 minutes left and 19 points,
I was doing the same at home. In fairness, though, Indiana was overplaying Jalen, forcing us to inbound the ball to Brooks
Robbie Hummel's response to this was that Leach wasn't working hard enough to get the ball. I think he noted that the NU bench was yelling at him to do that. . . and that you could tell which guys "want" the ball in that situation. He may be struggling with his shooting right now, but Brooks definitely wants the ball in that situation.
Why mess with what's working? There's variables there that are hard to capture, like the other team's attitude towards spacing. Or just don't mess with mojo!