@HoopsInsight: This season UK may play a lot with Keion Brooks at PF and shooters around him.
Last season, the closest UK got to that was the 86 possessions he played at PF with Mintz & Allen.
With them, UK put up a top-10 offense and a higher adjusted margin than any team in the nation.
This is something many of us talked about incessantly in the game chats. Just such a frustrating thing to watch. Sarr and Jackson were just not a good combo. The eye test told us this. And stats like this back it up.
This is something many of us talked about incessantly in the game chats. Just such a frustrating thing to watch. Sarr and Jackson were just not a good combo. The eye test told us this. And stats like this back it up.
Cal went big, when emphasis on guard play and mobility were the way to go. it's not just this last season.
This is something many of us talked about incessantly in the game chats. Just such a frustrating thing to watch. Sarr and Jackson were just not a good combo. The eye test told us this. And stats like this back it up.
He has a good article on it with numbers at this link, complete with including the new players and integrating them into the lineup. It's a very good read, not complex, just nice that it includes some numbers.
Cal went big, when emphasis on guard play and mobility were the way to go. it's not just this last season.
Hopefully he has too many choices this year that require outside shooters as part of the combination. I think that's going to be the case.
Whether that continues into the future may be a different story. I'm hopeful that this year serves as a grand experiment, and he sees how well it can play and continues to mold futures teams in this manner.
Hopefully he has too many choices this year that require outside shooters as part of the combination. I think that's going to be the case.
Whether that continues into the future may be a different story. I'm hopeful that this year serves as a grand experiment, and he sees how well it can play and continues to mold futures teams in this manner.
To be blunt i'm hoping that turning in the worst year in a century at the finest and most consistent basketball program in the nation's history has clued him into the need to make some real changes and not just some "tweaks".
If that doesn't wake you up to some self examination then nothing will.
To be blunt i'm hoping that turning in the worst year in a century at the finest and most consistent basketball program in the nation's history has clued him into the need to make some real changes and not just some "tweaks".
If that doesn't wake you up to some self examination then nothing will.
Definitely hope so. It's really really hard to un-wire a coach who has been a defensive minded coach for so long. And we need a good defense to win. But so many of the poor line-up decisions he makes are based on defense (and rebounding) and not offense.
I have zero doubt in my mind that he sees the + and - numbers with every line-up that played after every game and likely at halftime. They don't tell you everything but they tell you a lot.
I have not seen this team play yet. But I can go ahead and tell you our best line-ups will be:
- Wheeler (or TyTy)
- Mintz (or Fredrick)
- Grady (or Allen)
- Brooks (or Toppin)
- Oscar T
The question is where does Collins fit in there. And I really don't know except that he plays Collins and Oscar T too much together.
Hopefully he has too many choices this year that require outside shooters as part of the combination. I think that's going to be the case.
Whether that continues into the future may be a different story. I'm hopeful that this year serves as a grand experiment, and he sees how well it can play and continues to mold futures teams in this manner.
After Clarke went down last season our options at the guard spots were Allen and plugging in Keion or Toppin in at the three. Hopefully we do not find the team in that situation this season.
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