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[QUOTE="Niastri, post: 5022063, member: 722"]
Nobody knew how to rotate or hedge off picks in Maui.

We left too many open threes and way too many clear lines to the basket.  How many times did McLeod find himself guarding a PG 20 feet from the basket while Mintz or Starling was trying to get in front of the rolling center?

The defense was an absolute mess. Everybody was terrible.

You can't blame that on the Highlander alone.

But, the fact of the matter is we looked so bad in Maui because we scored 56 and 57 points.  Our defense wasn't the biggest problem.  We took 44 threes against Gonzaga and Tennessee and made 9 of them. It was atrocious.

Even if we shot a merely terrible 30% from three, we average 6 more points a game.

Our shooting inside the arc wasn't very good either.

That's kind of the bottom line. Our season average scoring was 76.3.  If we scored our average, we win those games.

McLeod's biggest weakness is that he's not a good rebounder.  We missed a million shots in Maui, and he got 2 offensive rebounds both games combined.  We also as a team got outrebounded by 35 boards in those two games.

If McLeod plays next to Freeman and Brown, those rebounding numbers look a lot better... Maybe we need to try to play our new rebounding machine portal center wherever Bell's on the floor and only play McLeod when we have our big forward tandem out there?

I'm not suggesting McLeod is a savior, but his injury definitely hurt the team, especially since everybody got better as the year went along. So, too, would McLeod if he'd been healthy.
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