You absolutely can’t beat good teams with such weak production from your guards.
Glad he made foul shots. The play he got fouled hard Gavin passed him the ball and the right and easy play was a bounce pass back.
We are talking about shots at the rim! In and Out is a miss. He shoots way too much. We havent faced a real team yet.
Yes. WAY too much. Davis is 3 for 19 so far from the field at 16%.
I am with you with their failure to feed Cliff for alley oops but their failure a lot of times to even use the backboard , put on the brakes , pivot , with great footwork , let defender fly by , and hit an open shot , or even use a head fake since defender is tight on them that would create a foul. We have 2 guards as assistant coaches that did driving under control with head fakes and footwork and pivoting but that has not translated to our guards. Time for a tutorial
Rutgers guards throwing a proper bounce pass will be the first one you see. A lost art but the great point guards and passers all do it. Every pass doesn’t have to be in the air.
I actually thought he'd throw a lob for a dunk.
I get what you’re saying about GETTING to the rim and getting fouled. That helps in all the different ways you cite.
Lol it’s Davis’ 3rd college game. This will take time, no way around it.
Same thing happened in BU game he had a trailer or two when they had numbers and took to rim hard and got hammered
I’m not saying he didn’t miss the Lob (I saw two of them , so I know what you are talking aboht ) …. and he is still a work in progress.
We were a top 15 team before Mag went down. This team< i doubt, has that ceiling
If Simpson and Davis aren't look to pass to Cliff in transition, what makes you think they are going to pass to Ace Bailey?
Overpassing or hesitating on the break often results in turnovers or forced shots. Being decisive and finishing the break was the right call for Simpson in that spot. It took a flagrant foul hip check to stop the layup. Oh, by the way, he still got two by draining the free throws. All because he went strong and drew contact.
You have a real short memory. Rutgers was 10-3 from Wake Forest through Michigan State. That was also the stretch when we were fully healthy.
A decisive play is a bounce pass back to Gavin for a uncontested layup.
Simpson's vision hasn't improved so far. I don't see a point guard in him.
The pass was as obvious as any pass could be. It would be a great learning video for teaching the fundamentals of transition offense and why making the pass is key.
The pass was the obvious play....watching it on replay it wasn't as blatant of a miss as I thought watching it live.
As soon as the defender made the switch and faced Simpson, the pass should have gone right back. It should be automatic for high major college guard.
Bart has them at #114 and Kenpom has them at #91. NCAA tournament committee seeded them at #15. They are still a team that wins no more than 5 games in the B1G.
That was a bang bang split second decision at full speed. Being decisive and attacking an open lane to finish the break is the right call at that moment in time. It took a flagrant foul to stop the layup and we still got two when he hit the free throws. Hesitating and overpassing often results in a turnover or a muffed opportunity. The turnovers from guards and wings in the half court trying to force the ball into Cliff are worse decisions
I think you meant to say if Simpson made the pass back to Gavin it would have been an automatic turnover. Gavin made the high major play by taking it to the rim. The pass back would have been a classic kiddie basketball mistake of overpassing at the rim that results in a turnover. The only way the defender could stop him was sliding over with a hard foul. I thought Derek made the right move in real time, looking at the replay only reinforced it was the right action vs attempting a last second off balance pass back into traffic going full speed.
