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Message: [QUOTE="orangefan13, post: 1220879, member: 906"] Cooneys really settled into a nonagressive role this season. Hes not taking aggressive chances, and thats not going to make him a go to leader on the court, but it could help the team stats and the team win with some in control basketball play as well. [B]Hes gone from shaky potatoes to fork in the road[/B]. Cooney is what I like to call a 4th scoring option, who pushed into a 3rd during the michigan game. Last year he was good enough to be 2nd scoring option pushing 1st scoring option many games, until he went into his slump and fell back to a third/forth. I don't think I can remember a player ever going in that direction in the last 15 years probably, ever. Maybe Triche, but that was not a exactly a good team in 10-11, and he didn't change the speed of his play as a jr/senior as identifiable as cooney has. All the above being said... 99.9% of the time would point to "when the going gets tough cooney will be more aggressive for the team if they need him to like jeckyl and hyde" but it hasn't. If patterson kaleb and bj/Roberson with gbinije at guard, can score in different ways, while playing some solid defense we could cut down cooneys minutes to 25-30 and use him 1.as speed off the bench, or 2.for speed spurst moments he is in. Right now I think the coaches are 1.hoping kaleb, or our sophs are being pushed to help G become 3rd scoring options instead or 2.we are coserving cooney for his aggressive play later in the season instead. [B] We are one 3rd not even 2nd, scoring option shy right now from possibly being 7/8 wins to 0-1 losses. [/B]Above average teams want two 1st-2nd scoring options with two 3rd options that can become 2nd at times. Thats the minimum to strive for offensively. I Wonder what the coaches hopes for that are. Kaleb could learn alot from working with Gbinije/Buss being physical against him in practice. [/QUOTE]

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