It's been two years. Our offense up until 22 was often very good.
Is this true though? ‘22 was an anomaly. We had a near perfect attack with Scott coming into his own at X, Cameron at the lefty spot who had all around game as a dodger and finisher and Barolo as an absolute righty hammer. Excellent defense with Kirst dropping dimes on the outlets and one of the best DMid units in the nation. Offensive middie might have been a weakness but Jacoby turned out to be a monster portal acquisition and Knobloch took his game to the next level. Plus our Dmids were like 1b on offense as they could have started as offensive middies on most teams.
Prior to then we’ve always had talented offensive players but I recall that we struggled in 6 on 6 sets. But we were early innovators in committing to NASCAR offense (as well as plugging holes thru the portal) and that kept us competitive.
Now most teams run some version of NASCAR and are much better at defending it because they see it far more frequently. And everyone has caught up or surpassed us in portal recruiting. We have not adapted. We can no longer rely on transition goals and our settled offense is simply awful.
And I would argue that outside of 2022 it has been consistently bad but our transition offense was superior so it hid many flaws. We consistently have among the lowest shooting percentage in the country year in and year out. That speaks to the fact that we don’t run an offense that creates open looks. We simply rely on hero ball with 5 dudes standing around watching.
