jacobkdoyle
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The good news is, they haven't hit their ceiling yet. Plenty of places to improve. Blocking out in the zone. Making quicker decisions in the post and on ball reversals. Obviously free throw shooting. Sharper cuts to the hoop (thinking of the one where Clark tried to pass to a cutting Shaq, who was beaten to the ball).
They are doing a lot of nice things. At first I was pretty irate that LD wasn't transitioning out of that zone given the deluge of offensive rebounds, but at the same time their guards were struggling to get into the lane or really finding any kind of rhythm, and I'm thinking "we'll take that tradeoff". They had 12 offensive rebounds in the 1st half and scored 20 pts.
Sanders...ugh. He's a severe liability on offense right now. Twice UC ran nice stuff and found him for wide open 3s and he missed both. Now, defenses can afford to gamble off him or just ignore him completely. It's like playing 5 on 4.
Love the midrange game from Cobb and KJ. Little pump fake, couple dribbles inside the arc, wide open shot. And have you noticed how successful they've been recently hitting 3s off of offensive rebounds? Good job by Ellis and Clark of recognizing the open shooter after grabbing a board.
Congrats to the guys for working hard and staying positive and resilient. Proud of how hard they're playing.
I agree on the zone. I couldn't believe we didn't just switch it up for a couple minutes...but LD stuck to the plan. It's hard to argue the end result. Plus, it's not like the 3s they hit put us in a hole like in other games earlier in the year. LD has done a good job getting the team back after a tough skid. We easily could've bailed on the season after a 3 game slide with a fill-in head coach. Who will get coach of the year in the conference?