Class of 2026 SG Mark Morano Mahmutovič (Slovenia) COMMITTED TO SYRACUSE (4/6/26)

[ar inj]

What I want to see is someone go back to a high-low offense. Because if you are going to run the high pick with your center (or a PF), then you HAVE to have your other big somewhere on the low post. Our offense put the forwards mostly on the wings and in the corners, with nobody down low to get the offensive boards.

Donnie was a good rebounder on the defensive end, but he almost never got offensive boards, especially compared to other bouncy combo forwards from our past who we are going to compare him to.

Same with Eddie Lampkin. terrific defensive rebounder by the numbers, but putting him out at the 3 point line setting picks took away his clever inside passing, and his ability to bull his way to some offensive boards, too.

So, I think both of those guys were victims of a poor offensive structure. You need a guy in the low post.

And who ever you use to set the pick up high, that guy should be able to pop and make a 3 from the top of the key area. If that guy can't do that (and ours couldn't until late in the year he started trying Donnie as the high pick man for a few sets a game), then that's not the guy you want out there at the 3 point line.

When you had Will Kyle as the pick man, ALL HE COULD DO was roll to the rim. It was too predictable, plus it clogged up the lane preventing JJ and the other guys from driving as easily to the rim.

A Five-Out offense does not lead to offensive rebounding. And if you don't have a PG with excellent decision making skills, and shooters all around, it just doesn't work.

I hope Gerry figures out that part of the offense, the high-low game.

And they have to move a lot more without the ball.
That's what turned UConn back into champions a few years ago.

Lampkin led the ACC in offense rebounds per game, just sayin

 

[IthacaMatt]

Lampkin led the ACC in offense rebounds per game, just sayin

That's great. Imagine if he didn't start so many offensive plays at the top of the key.
What kind of numbers would he have put up then?