Couple Basketball thoughts...

[the59dawg]

I'm really pleased with what we've seen so far, but the main thing about this team that concerns me right now is that our perimeter players seem completely adverse to throwing the ball in to a post player on the low block. I get it if it's Herard or even Datcher right now, but Ado obviously can catch it and knows what to do with it, and Holman can make good passes back out. Maybe yesterday it was due to the knowledge that the opponent would immediately collapse the zone on it, but going forward we need to get better about that or our offense will be stagnant with just throwing the ball around the perimeter like we did a lot of the time yesterday.

There's no reason to worry about the shooting. We know Q, Peters, Carter, and Holman are good shooters, and young 'Spoon should be one too. We just had an off night in that area last night, it happens. If anything I'm worried about our guards being too unselfish; many times last night we made way too many "extra" passes with shooters passing up open shots.

We started the game 0/13 on 3's in first half. All the guards were throwing them up with no success.

[thf24]

We started the game 0/13 on 3's in first half. All the guards were throwing them up with no success.

Right, so the fact we struggled with outside shooting in one game means all the guys on our team who were good shooters last year suddenly forgot how to shoot. Couldn't possibly be that we just had a cold shooting game as all other teams do from time to time.

Also, we were not 0/13 in the first half. Holman made a 3 for the first points of the game.