Thats fine but Oweh and Carr had three wide open looks late and missed them all.
Yes you can, if he can’t get open and is not playing good D.
I saw no egregious defensive lapses by Brea and he got open enough to bang in a three while he was playing limited minutes.
The issue is that he cannot/will not cut hard. He has to help by getting open. He has to fight through the contact and to learn to exaggerate any holding the other team is doing to bring attention to it. He did not do that last night.
Ill tell you why. Because we were off from 3, we lost by 4 and Brea was benched as the best college shooter in the world.
Not only his ability to make them but the mere threat of him being able to make them. I think it could have changed the game. All we needed was a couple more makes.
Well, I am sure you know better than Coach Pope, even when the stats tell a different story!
60.5% on 26 of 43 in just eight games is the only stat I need to see under all the circumstances.
Let’s let Pope hold the players accountable himself. I expect Brea to get more minutes out of necessity but nowhere near the amount he could get if he really committed himself to good defensive principles. He’s not going to wake up one morning with explosiveness but he can know his assignment’s tendencies to mitigate what makes them most effective. He can be a willful and knowledgeable help defender. He can show grit and toughness to grab rebounds with his 6’7” frame. He can be disciplined to guard with his feet and hips rather than his hands. He can get into a low defensive stance and be ready for a challenge.
but he must move more with out the ball.
No offense, but you were always going to be upset. You were on here all week talking about 40-0 and not acknowledging any team weaknesses. You were left with nowhere to go but to be irrationally upset. This team’s flaws didn’t change over the last 48 hours. We just became even more aware of the issues that were already on film. If you’re someone crowing about 40-0 with an entirely portal-built roster with obvious personnel limitations maybe you should sit out the “being upset at the coach” scenario because clearly your own discernment is quite bad.
As much as I love his sniping of the ball, much like a quarterback running out of bounds before getting hit, Butler has to understand his importance to our teams chance to win. Meaning, when we are in these big games, he has to be smart enough to assess how hard can I play defense without getting into foul trouble. When we are playing these really physical defenses, his value to the team goes way up. He has to back off slightly on his sniping. Just keep your guy in front of you.
A voice of reason is refreshing. Some paint theirselves into a corner when you can’t look at a team with with reasonable expectations.
I think there was actually a lot to like from the ugly loss. We know our rotation much more definitively today.
Sometimes it is easier to drive home the why certain things are important when you get your a$$ handed to you
. Thus, I would think there is a better chance the issues get fixed.
1000% this ^^^
I am not against taking 30 3's a game. But... it's not so simple as saying shooting 3's get you more points than shooting long 2's. Who says those 2's have to be "long 2's". Suppose you had 2 good PGs and 3 good post players, and those 2 guards would dribble and pass until got the post guys a shot from their 60% range. That would be equivalent of making 40% of your 3's.
As a philosophy, Pope wants to either shoot quality 3’s or layups. The issue is that our strongest inside guy is Amari and the dude banged a point blank layup off the backboard the other night like it was a hot potato. Then, the cutters are not busting their *** around the screens to scub their guys. This means that the defense doesn’t have to worry as much about the layups and can focus on the 3 point defense. This year it is going to be sketchy at times, like last night. But, once he gets his guys the next couple of years, it will be like poetry.
When you take a three and miss without rebounding, you may have given up the more probable 2 points if match-ups give you an inside or driving advantage. You never know what’s best until the game is over, of course. Scheme discipline is simply a game plan and approach. There are unknown outcomes … that is why it is called a game. GO CATS !!!
