Irondawg
11-26-2014, 11:48 AM
So far so good although we've only played one decent team. But we won that one and between these early games and his recent recruiting we are starting to see what Ray wants to do with his roster and style of play.
POSITIVES
We are much, much improved athletically. We look like a real basketball team and when we sub we bring in other guys that are decent players.
We are winning without arguably our best overall player in Sword
Ray wants to be an uptempo team with his 4 spot really being a more athletic type that doesn't do a lot of post up. Not a true stretch 4 that shoots 3's but a slasher/offensive rebound type
Ndoye looks much better than I anticipated. He moves well and hustles. Needs to learn how to position better to block a shot, but he's perfectly capable of being a positive on the court for 20 minutes a game.
We look better handling the ball. Thomas looks much improved there and Daniels can put it on the floor as well. Dunlap doesn't look terrible there either
I think all the freshmen will be solid contributors before their careers are over
I see a much better rebounding team and more guys blocking out and positioning better than I've seen from MSU in a long time
Ray's recruiting is really picking up and is getting more talent into the program
Very impressed with Roquez, Ware and thomas on the offensive end so far. Rocquez especially seems to be in better control early on and is really hitting the offensive glass.
NEGATIVES
We are still very slow at getting out to challenge perimiter shots and recognizing where shooters are. That needs to get fixed in a hurry before we play some better teams.
See a lot of guys still playing defense with their hands and not moving their feet well enough. We need to bring in Jarvis during the offseason to teach Ndoye how to position for block shots.
Overall we are still atrocious passing the ball. For all the improvements in ball handling we don't look any better here. Every player on the teams except the PGs have a negative assist to turnover ratio.
Personally not a fan of how we end up running our offense from the timeline. We have to ball way outside a lot and also end up driving the baseline a lot. There's not a lot of ways to attack from there and has very limted passing angles.
I'd like to see our PG's look more in control of the offense.
Daniels needs to be assertive. You can tell he has some skill, but he doesn't have the mentality to a focal point on offense
The freshman have steep learning curves. Most of these guys aren't used to having guys play serious D against them and it shows. Poor shot selection and bad passing have been evident from this group lately. Ray tried to let them finish the game last week and they couldn't get it done and struggled to even get a shot off. Dunlap has some scoring acumen, Black has nice size and athleticism and Houston is clearly uber-athletic but is really, really raw fundamentally. They are all clearly D1 players though so I'm curious to see them grow.
POSITIVES
We are much, much improved athletically. We look like a real basketball team and when we sub we bring in other guys that are decent players.
We are winning without arguably our best overall player in Sword
Ray wants to be an uptempo team with his 4 spot really being a more athletic type that doesn't do a lot of post up. Not a true stretch 4 that shoots 3's but a slasher/offensive rebound type
Ndoye looks much better than I anticipated. He moves well and hustles. Needs to learn how to position better to block a shot, but he's perfectly capable of being a positive on the court for 20 minutes a game.
We look better handling the ball. Thomas looks much improved there and Daniels can put it on the floor as well. Dunlap doesn't look terrible there either
I think all the freshmen will be solid contributors before their careers are over
I see a much better rebounding team and more guys blocking out and positioning better than I've seen from MSU in a long time
Ray's recruiting is really picking up and is getting more talent into the program
Very impressed with Roquez, Ware and thomas on the offensive end so far. Rocquez especially seems to be in better control early on and is really hitting the offensive glass.
NEGATIVES
We are still very slow at getting out to challenge perimiter shots and recognizing where shooters are. That needs to get fixed in a hurry before we play some better teams.
See a lot of guys still playing defense with their hands and not moving their feet well enough. We need to bring in Jarvis during the offseason to teach Ndoye how to position for block shots.
Overall we are still atrocious passing the ball. For all the improvements in ball handling we don't look any better here. Every player on the teams except the PGs have a negative assist to turnover ratio.
Personally not a fan of how we end up running our offense from the timeline. We have to ball way outside a lot and also end up driving the baseline a lot. There's not a lot of ways to attack from there and has very limted passing angles.
I'd like to see our PG's look more in control of the offense.
Daniels needs to be assertive. You can tell he has some skill, but he doesn't have the mentality to a focal point on offense
The freshman have steep learning curves. Most of these guys aren't used to having guys play serious D against them and it shows. Poor shot selection and bad passing have been evident from this group lately. Ray tried to let them finish the game last week and they couldn't get it done and struggled to even get a shot off. Dunlap has some scoring acumen, Black has nice size and athleticism and Houston is clearly uber-athletic but is really, really raw fundamentally. They are all clearly D1 players though so I'm curious to see them grow.