Rick, please ask Barry to shoot less.

[SallyStansbury]

When the shot isn't falling (as it obviously was not last night), it is fine to pass up some open looks. Watch Benock the past several years......Coach Stans is tripping over himself to praise Benock.

Credit Barry for the defensive effort. Their main guy shot like poop. However, when opposing teams extend their D with athletic perimeter defenders, we are in trouble, trouble, trouble....we will see that again over and over and are doomed if Ravern and Barry both go "cold". We have no answer.

My answer of play Phil Turner and Kodi more doesn't look too good either as they were a combined 1 for 7 last night so I don't know what to change? Osby has shown limited ability to create shots? Kodi does reasonably well if you can get him the ball relatively near the basket? Phil can drive the baseline pretty well? What are our other options?
And please, spare me the clever Fire Stans** posts.

Other stats of note: Barry 5 turnovers to 1 assist; Ravern 3 turnovers to 1 assist. That is tough to overcome, especially with crap shooting.

 

[mstatefan88]

The free throws were completely his fault, but no one else could find a shot last night, so every shot Barry was taking was equally as bad as most every other shot that was taken last night. Now he and the rest of the team needed to drive the basket more, but when the team falls into that lull where they all stay behind the 3 point line, it's hard for one guy to drive the lane because he has zero help. It was an overall bad night, and everyone is to blame because everyone was taking bad shots. Ravern went back to the Ravern of last year and was taking awful 3 point shots, along with some of the shots Kodi was taking. Bad night all around. Hopefully Stansbury will learn that the last 4 minutes of that game is the way we need to play the rest of the year.