You are an evil wizard!
Suggesting that a big man can make a positive contribution, near the post, to the flow of a guard-oriented offense, not just setting high screens where the big is away from the boards :shocked:
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Postgame thread-- SIU 77 BU 64
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You are an evil wizard!
Suggesting that a big man can make a positive contribution, near the post, to the flow of a guard-oriented offense, not just setting high screens where the big is away from the boards :shocked:
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I really don't understand BU's passion for that weave out front. It almost seems like that when we get into trouble, we start the weave up. The thing I dislike the most about it is that it doesn't look like we are trying to accomplish anything out of it. We set about 4-5 screens out top with SM, JC and AW, TW or TCS running back and forth for about 20 seconds and still get a bad shot or a turnover out of it. What's the advantage to it? Our bigs become complacent, as they are not getting utilized, our guards become tired, and to me, it's very easy to defend. In the home loss to N Iowa, the road loss to Mo ST, and this SIU game, the weave was worthless.
N Iowa was jumping the screens ahead of our guards because they knew they were coming, MO St. switched to a 3-2 zone, and SIU utilized a very good backside trap in which they allowed that screen to be set, but then the weak side defender absolutely left his man to run behind our guard and trap him from behind, all three of these defenses shut down that weave.
We do not have the passers on this team that we had last year.
Against SIU after that weakside player came over to trap, they're were several occasions that 2 players were wide open, if the ball handler would have just reversed the ball, instead of continuing to dribble aimlessly head on into the man that switched the screen, and then get trapped from behind.BU didn't reverse the ball off that screen once, we just allowed ourselves to be trapped, and usually threw the ball directly into the hands of the trappers. Crouch was especially dissapointing tonight with regards to ballhandling/decision making.
I thought AW was very good last night, he didn't settle for the 3, and knocked in all his free throws. Once he starts keeping his head focused on the rim and finishing those drives to the bucket he'll take his game to another level, that's easier said than done though when you're getting fouled hard though, but overall AW played pretty well, and showed some toughness by continually going to the rack.
SM was good, not great, but very solid for a freshman, and is going to be very very good by the time he graduates.
Both AW, SM, and little bit of R Austin were the few bright spots in this game. BU has got to find a way to keep getting better, and please scrap the weave.
N Iowa was jumping the screens ahead of our guards because they knew they were coming, MO St. switched to a 3-2 zone, and SIU utilized a very good backside trap in which they allowed that screen to be set, but then the weak side defender absolutely left his man to run behind our guard and trap him from behind, all three of these defenses shut down that weave.
We do not have the passers on this team that we had last year.
Against SIU after that weakside player came over to trap, they're were several occasions that 2 players were wide open, if the ball handler would have just reversed the ball, instead of continuing to dribble aimlessly head on into the man that switched the screen, and then get trapped from behind.BU didn't reverse the ball off that screen once, we just allowed ourselves to be trapped, and usually threw the ball directly into the hands of the trappers. Crouch was especially dissapointing tonight with regards to ballhandling/decision making.
I thought AW was very good last night, he didn't settle for the 3, and knocked in all his free throws. Once he starts keeping his head focused on the rim and finishing those drives to the bucket he'll take his game to another level, that's easier said than done though when you're getting fouled hard though, but overall AW played pretty well, and showed some toughness by continually going to the rack.
SM was good, not great, but very solid for a freshman, and is going to be very very good by the time he graduates.
Both AW, SM, and little bit of R Austin were the few bright spots in this game. BU has got to find a way to keep getting better, and please scrap the weave.
We lost once again because we played a bad 1st half ; I thought Warren,Maniscalco, Salley, and Austin played well; Crouch should not be out front or bringing up the ball as he has too many turnovers and has looked fatigued because he is being asked to do too much, Wilson is too small to play the 4 position, Collins is too timid and seems to never be in the right place to defend or rebound,(last night we were in a zone and he never rotated over which allowed SIU to get an offensive rebound and score), Singh was below ave. last night and I would like to see more of Will Egolf as I think he could help us on the boards ; we need to redo the lineup :
Singh,Austin,Collins 5 position
Salley,Egolf, Austin 4 position
Wilson,Crouch, Warren 3 position
Warren, Crouch, Cole-Scott 2 position
Maniscalco, Cole-Scott 1 position
Just an opinion but we need to substitute according to these positions and if we have to play more zone defense who cares as long as we win.
Singh,Austin,Collins 5 position
Salley,Egolf, Austin 4 position
Wilson,Crouch, Warren 3 position
Warren, Crouch, Cole-Scott 2 position
Maniscalco, Cole-Scott 1 position
Just an opinion but we need to substitute according to these positions and if we have to play more zone defense who cares as long as we win.