Depth Chart: Starters and Subs for the nth time

[JSHoosier 20,297]

It's a 2-minute highlight video so take this with a grain of salt, but watched the video a second time focusing on defense and saw A LOT of the same bad habits on the defensive end. A lot of guys (Yogi and JBJ in particular) straight up and down on the perimeter and turning their heads completely to their man when off the ball. Pressure on the ball was fairly weak too.

Not encouraging. Just throwing Bryant out there isn't going to solve the defensive ills of this team. It's going to take focus, attention to fundamentals and making defense a priority.

Yeah, I've consistently said that just adding Bryant will not fix our defense.  There were so many issues defensively last year that adding a big man won't solve.

[KelleyHoosh 2,263]

You guys are spot on. What really concerned me yesterday during the Haunted Hall of Hoops scrimmage was that Bryant fouled, kind of a lot. And sometimes they were silly and avoidable. What happens when we go up against Purdue and he picks up two quick fouls? Then we have Bielfeldt, OG, Hartman, and Troy as our options to be bigs. That doesn't sit too well with me.

 

What I did like was the look of some pressing, which I think can be used quite nicely

[Class of '66 Old Fart 84,881]

Bryant in particular, because we know he's going to log a lot of minutes, but also OG and Morgan have to very quickly learn that some of the stuff they got away with defensively in high school ain't gonna work at this level.