Specifically tonight and the Wisconsin games , you look up and it is 6 turnovers in first 5 minutes and then tonight 12 turnovers to Purdue’s 3 . You come out of the gate turning the ball over and not even getting a shot at the rim. Hard to win that way. Then have to dig out of a 8-10 point hole. Wisconsin got to 16at 33-17 before we fought back. We have had good games with 4 turnovers or definitely under 10. Our basketball IQ has disappeared and simple basketball plays are not being made.
Watching Wisconsin and Purdue , 2 good offenses that run a lot more screens and pin downs , yes, but they also run simple pick and roll offense. Smith had like 13-14 assists on simple pick and roll on one side of the court. Wisconsin did the same but ran pick and pop and got 5 threes out of their bigs.
Common denominator their point guards Smith last night , Blackwell on Monday night had the ball in their hands and orchestrated the action. They did not use their point guard as a decoy but as a maestro. We cannot run pick and role with Ogbole who cannot catch a bounce pass but we can run it with Somerville and we can certainly run it with ACE where we can run pick and pop. The offense has suffered but failed to play simple basketball to take advantage of the advantage we have . Yes , Dylan has been ill and it has hurt us badly but to fix this offense that scored 50 points last night , we have to stop the early turnovers and we have to play with Dylan running the show and running pick and roll with Somerville and with ACE. Keeping ACE in the corner wasting away on any set is ludicrous . That will lead to easier scores and allow momentum to build along with confidence. Teams are doubling Dylan when he tries to drive and gets by his man and he is met with another defender so his drives all the way to the hole are more difficult. Things have to be made easier and for the life of me , watching other teams play simple fundamental basketball and have success and we have Dylan , ACE and Lathan and can do the same. We are not getting any consistency out of the rest of the supporting cast with only Acuff and Grant showing a pulse. We have to put the ball in Dylan’s hands and run simple fundamental basketball.
