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So who plays the power forward position on opening night

Majik45 said:
I think it's pretty obvious that Wilson will play the 4 for 25-30 minutes a game, and Taylor Brown will pick up the other minutes at that position. Les has been playing a smaller guy at the 4 who can go outside and hit 3's for a couple of years now, and will continue to do so.

By the way, I love Taylor Brown. I feel like we are getting a guy with Theron's potential for 4 years. They both have simlar builds and a similar game from what I've seen. Brown just needs a year or two to put on some more muscle.
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Agreed...except I think TB has a better perimeter shot. I certainly like his upside.
 
Right now our best lineup would be Collins, Singh, Wilson, Dunson, McCain....

But obviously that won't happen...

So my guess is that Collins, Wilson, Dunson, McCain, Maniscalco will be the starters w/ AW, SS, and TB being the first three off the bench...I also expect Norris to take some of McCain and Maniscalco's minutes...he may take some if he shoots the ball well, BUT he should take more if he defends well and takes care of the ball...

My thoughts:

Play Thompson with Collins
Play Egolf with Singh
Play Theron more at the 3
Have Dodie guarding Mayo 95% of the time...NO SWITCHING!!
Play Norris with Warren and either PG
Have Roberts setup in corners and at the elbow so he can penetrate in the lane
Take off the dumb press, all we do is waste energy...if you're gonna trap do it to 100%, NO TOKEN MAN out of the in bounds!!

Thats it for now...
 
Da Coach said:
Just wondered why you like this lineup, and not one with Sam M. in it?
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UIC scores a lot of points and is very guard heavy....

Sam doesn't play great defense other than helpside....given by the fact that his man scored 24 points from a D-III school and the man he guarded from Lewis scored quite a few...

I know he will start, but I just wish someone like Dodie could help him w/ his defense...Sam just isn't quick enough to keep up w/ most of the ppl he has guarded...therefore someone needs to teach him better footwork and the logic of staying on the shooter...
 
SaintLouBrave22 said:
UIC scores a lot of points and is very guard heavy....

Sam doesn't play great defense other than helpside....given by the fact that his man scored 24 points from a D-III school and the man he guarded from Lewis scored quite a few...

I know he will start, but I just wish someone like Dodie could help him w/ his defense...Sam just isn't quick enough to keep up w/ most of the ppl he has guarded...therefore someone needs to teach him better footwork and the logic of staying on the shooter...
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I think Sam plays way too close on guys, and because of his lack of quickness, gets burnt quite often.

The entire BU team needs to learn some better positioning fundamentals and not get up so close on guys when they're 30+ feet from the basket. We're terrible at moving our feet, and thus we get toasted. We're also terrible at our defensive slides on helpside, so once that one-on-one matchup has been exploited, there's no recovery. Essentially, it's a team-wide epidemic.

I just gave myself a headache.
 
BradleyBrave said:
I think Sam plays way too close on guys, and because of his lack of quickness, gets burnt quite often.

The entire BU team needs to learn some better positioning fundamentals and not get up so close on guys when they're 30+ feet from the basket. We're terrible at moving our feet, and thus we get toasted. We're also terrible at our defensive slides on helpside, so once that one-on-one matchup has been exploited, there's no recovery. Essentially, it's a team-wide epidemic.

I just gave myself a headache.
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Are you now "toasted?" :)
 
SaintLouBrave22 said:
Right now our best lineup would be Collins, Singh, Wilson, Dunson, McCain....
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I'm not sure I would agree here. That lineup would struggle to score 40 points in a game if they played starter's minutes.
Based on our current personnel, I just can't envision any starting lineup where Theron is not at the 4.
 
BradleyBrave said:
I think Sam plays way too close on guys, and because of his lack of quickness, gets burnt quite often.

The entire BU team needs to learn some better positioning fundamentals and not get up so close on guys when they're 30+ feet from the basket. We're terrible at moving our feet, and thus we get toasted. We're also terrible at our defensive slides on helpside, so once that one-on-one matchup has been exploited, there's no recovery. Essentially, it's a team-wide epidemic.

I just gave myself a headache.
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bradleybrave you are right on, sam singlehandly got matt salley fouled out of 2-3 games last year. He would get beat and someone would have to pickup is man and usually foul them. This year i think the scouting report will say if you get sam burn him, at least that seems to be the case sofar.
 
ER3 said:
I'm not sure I would agree here. That lineup would struggle to score 40 points in a game if they played starter's minutes.
Based on our current personnel, I just can't envision any starting lineup where Theron is not at the 4.
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I start thinking other lineups would have better O. Yes, we should average more, but the only problem about yesterday: We let a DIII team score 84. repeat after me, we let a DIII team score 84.
 
So far it seems to me the coaching staff is throwing WE in at the 5....I would like to see him at the 4 and the same for AT! SS and DC are 5's.....but the staff will play TW starting at the 4 and it looks like TB will replace him....IMO both could play the 3....in fact didn't TB take some 3's?
 
Big Mike said:
So far it seems to me the coaching staff is throwing WE in at the 5....I would like to see him at the 4 and the same for AT! SS and DC are 5's.....but the staff will play TW starting at the 4 and it looks like TB will replace him....IMO both could play the 3....in fact didn't TB take some 3's?
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In fact, TB made the team's first 3 of the year vs Lewis. He seems to be better offensively than (most of) our guards. With his height, he feeds the ball into DC better.
But I'm not a great D evaluator, and some have questioned his D.
 
Why don't we play zone defense then? If man to man isn't working, then it's worth a shot. I realize that it's probably not the most popular suggestion in the world, because it hasn't really worked in years past, but how much worse can it be than our defense now?

If we scrapped the zone defense against UW-P after their kid hit an NBA range 3, then that's ridiculous. They are a D-III with nothing to lose, not all teams are going to try and take those shots.
 
BradleyBrave said:
We played a 2-3 zone for a very short spurt, and I believe gave up an NBA-range 3 from the top of the key.
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Yep, I think we played zone for one possession...they made two passes and hit a wide open deep 3...and then we immediately switched back to man after that.
 
One thing I like about the zone is it can keep a big man who is in foul trouble in the game ......I really don't like this team when DC sits on the bench right now! And I would drop the press we ran all night...it didn't do much IMO...get back on D and save the legs for better things!
 
We have too many new guys to regularly play zone. You cannot sucessfully teach this pressure man and zone at the same time by this point in the year.
They need to play what they've been taught in practice, and expand on it.

We play righ risk/high reward. Unfortunately,thus far, the risk has been too easily exploited. As they learn, the risk should be minimized.
 
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