To start the season, I thought this team was a notch down from last year's squad, but that they would come on strong at in Feb and March and make the tourney. While there is still time, so far there are a few disappointments.
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The offensive stats support your comment.a little of everyone
The same can be said of Johnson when he was the center.Player development has been lacking .Cliff. The fact that he hasn’t developed his offensive game at all is the most disappointing part of the season
Not a tough call at all. 1. a lot more difficult for a true freshman to adapt, especially on an untalented team. 2. Simpson is part of the reasons GG is struggling offensively because he’s a failure at guard in running the offense and finding open players, including GG.Really tough call for me between Simpson and Griffiths. I had really expected Simpson to blossom this year with more of a role after the way last season ended. Griffiths was an unknown, and while I had expectations that he fell short of, there was always a feeling that he might take some time to get acclimated.
Scoring is a gift. You can improve footwork, form, etc., but the bottom line is that Cliff can't shoot. Pike could have brought Kevin Durant in to be his shooting coach and it wouldn't have matteredThe same can be said of Johnson when he was the center.Player development has been lacking .
Our offense isn't connected because it's mostly a one on one offense that doesn't allow for enough catch and shoot. Simpson hasn't been great, but he is the only one on the team who can create a shot and so, not running much of an offense, he often has to, especially with the clock running down. Substituting as much as we do doesn't allow for much continuity either.Not a tough call at all. 1. a lot more difficult for a true freshman to adapt, especially on an untalented team. 2. Simpson is part of the reasons GG is struggling offensively because he’s a failure at guard in running the offense and finding open players, including GG.
Pike sometimes speaks about the defense being ‘connected’. The offense should be connected too, like Purdue, UConn and all good offensive teams. Even Minnesota. Our offense is not connected and Simpson is the main reason why. He dribbles too much looking for his own shot.
SadDo we really need a thread that our players can read gaging our disappointment in them?
Yes it's really not even close. There literally couldn't be a bigger let down given all the hype.Gavin by a mile. He was a high 4 star and some had him at a 5. The most disappointing part is that he hasn’t even gotten better as the season progressed.
He is supposed to be a shooter and has shot 32% from the floor, 24% from 3, and 57% from the FT line.
What does that mean?OP trying to make the players KTS.
Very disappointed that people actually responded.This is a crap post. Constantly putting our team down who is actually over performing the expectations going in and who lost two starters, one of which is arguably the best on the #1 team in the nation, with just a couple of months before the season started.
Let’s rally behind our team and not do this crap
Thanks. Yea op is an idiot.kill themselves
Name calling isn't allowed?@Richard Schnyderite if name calling isn’t allowed on these boards, this has got to be stopped too
I might agree with you if I could decipher your inebriated post. Can you please help translate?To me - when the freshman wins by a landslide - is it the player or the evaluators to blame; the kid didn't call himself one of the top recruits of all time; but since we (or at least me) don't know the names of the evaluators - the player takes the hit. Looks like a lot of other factors were not taken into consideration in his evaluation process. But certainly want him to succeed - just going to take more time.