Odds/Thoughts on building top 25 preseason

[Stuhoo]

17 minutes ago, str8baller said:

Alexis led the conference in 2pt FG%.  But he was only getting 5 attempts per game. In fact, our entire team was top 10 nationally in 2pt FG% and bottom 10 in attempts.  
 

There was a serious imbalance in our offense. It was actually almost the bizzaro Woody offense from ‘23 where we were one of the best 3pt shooting teams better never shot them.  I get that the staff is looking to recruit better to what they want to do and that should help. But they have to be better at adjusting to what’s happening. Teams were sitting on our 3pt shooters and giving us high percentage shots inside the arc and we weren’t taking nearly enough advantage of that. 

Reed Baily kept his 2pt FG% inordinately high by turning it over before he could miss a shot near the rim.

[Unexpectedflash]

38 minutes ago, str8baller said:

Alexis led the conference in 2pt FG%.  But he was only getting 5 attempts per game. In fact, our entire team was top 10 nationally in 2pt FG% and bottom 10 in attempts.  
 

There was a serious imbalance in our offense. It was actually almost the bizzaro Woody offense from ‘23 where we were one of the best 3pt shooting teams better never shot them.  I get that the staff is looking to recruit better to what they want to do and that should help. But they have to be better at adjusting to what’s happening. Teams were sitting on our 3pt shooters and giving us high percentage shots inside the arc and we weren’t taking nearly enough advantage of that. 

Lol we were actually number 7 in the country overall in 2 point field goal percentage. I fully agree there are tweaks that need to be done. We played at snails pace even though we struggled to score against half court defenses at the end of the year. We definitely should’ve dumped it into Alexis whenever we got stagnant because he was way better than I expected. If i can see things that need to be changed then Im sure the staff does also. But it’s also really hard to win anything when none of the perimeters players in your rotation can do anything off the dribble. I assume that’s what conerway was for but obviously he fell out of the rotation. Teams just started switching everything on us and we couldn’t punish them for it

[Golfman25]

7 minutes ago, Unexpectedflash said:

Lol we were actually number 7 in the country overall in 2 point field goal percentage. I fully agree there are tweaks that need to be done. We played at snails pace even though we struggled to score against half court defenses at the end of the year. We definitely should’ve dumped it into Alexis whenever we got stagnant because he was way better than I expected. If i can see things that need to be changed then Im sure the staff does also. But it’s also really hard to win anything when none of the perimeters players in your rotation can do anything off the dribble. I assume that’s what conerway was for but obviously he fell out of the rotation. Teams just started switching everything on us and we couldn’t punish them for it

It's not a question of whether they see the same thing.  It's a question of their stubbornness to not make changes.  It took a bit of time to make the Alexis switch -- I'm not sure if that is good or bad.  Good that they saw it and eventually made the switch.  Or bad that it took them as long as it did.