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I think it was there.
The problem was the ball movement seemed to be focused on getting Cooney an open three, which happened several times.
I think that our guards (Cooney, Gbinije and Ennis) should drive and penetrate then find someone like Christmas whose gained position in the paint to finish.
Fair, Grant and Xmas are all great down low when they are given the ball in position. Its the guards jobs to create offense/opportunities.
Cooney should be around the perimeter to kick it out to. This is much like how it was with Rautins when we had AO or Jackson.
Not really. What we ran a lot of, especially late, was Boeheims "2 fists" offense. Do you know what we do when he holds up 2 fists? It's a double high. Rak and Grant at the 2 elbows. Cooney out on the far wing, usually right side, right in front of our bench. Then the 2 bigs set picks and try to free up Fair or Ennis to beat a man to the basket 1-1. It's an ISO play. Or we pick and roll. Sometimes it did get kicked out to Cooney for the 3. At least twice I saw JB encouraging Cooney to keep shooting. In fact he played the whole 2nd half because that ISO doesn't work at all without Cooney in the game. We ran that play almost exclusively the last 5 mins and when we finally got the run.