UBuffalo Wild Wings Postgame

[2B20Again]

One exhibition game and I can’t believe some of these comments lol. Welcome back to basketball season. They will be fine guys.

%. Just trying to get a feel. 8 or regulars. They will be fine.

 

[Cuse On 3]

mightily impressed with how smooth betsey looks with the ball in his hands. I honestly wasn’t expecting that. His pump fake is lethal

 

[atlanticuse]

What a dumb post, sorry not sorry

how is it dumb?
Coach Autry hasn't proven anything other than he can lose.

How many games did we lose last year in the second half?
If AA is like FB and digs his heels in - doesn't switch up the lineup - we're screwed.

Your personal attack was offensive.

 

[tptcuse]

scrimmages literally do not matter if you are making wide sweeping claims about one please chill out, take a kolonipin, and flal asleep to the soothing sounds of info wars

This seems very specific.

 

[GoSU96]

Is JJ like basketballs version of Collins?
I sure hope not.
Coach dopey needs to become an HC fast.

Good lord

 

[GoSU96]

If JJ wasn’t a local guy he would get absolutely destroyed on here. He is nothing more than a third guard on a good P4 team. The McDonald’s AA game was a long time ago and he hasn’t developed. This team will not go far with him as a top option.

Didn’t he play with injuries to his hand/wrist on both hands last year?

That might effect your shooting

 

[Cusefan0307]

Didn’t he play with injuries to his hand/wrist on both hands last year?

That might effect your shooting

Ehhhh. There’s always an excuse with him. It’s annoying. Lots of guys play injured. He had some of his best games immediately after he came back. Down the stretch he was awful.

 

[AZOrange]

Was very impressed by kiyan and fennell. Betsey too of course. I was not expecting kiyan man defense to look as solid as it was. Fennell was smooth and seemed in total control.

Luke has a little Nash in his game

 

[OttoinGrotto]

Luke has a little Nash in his game

His ball handling was way smoother than I had seen in any of his Aussie games.

 

[Cuse On 3]

Luke has a little Nash in his game

Agreed the way he drives with his head so far up, and the way he moves totallyyyyy reminds me of him: great call

 

[JDubbin]

Not trying to make any massive assessments or predictions coming off of an opening scrimmage… just love seeing my favorite team in all of sportsdom playing again!

P.S. Also very much enjoyed the athletic difference between Kyle this year & Lampkin last year

 

[CardiacCuse]

The part in bold is not true. Our efficiency numbers were much better in February and March of last year then it was earlier in the year. Now we need to be ready to bring it from day one that has been the biggest problem the last five years.

problem is the non-con has never been this important. JB usually got things figured out by Jan/Feb and Red seems no differnt. His teams have been at their worst in Nov/Dec.

with the current rankings formulas and NET, teams simply are not allowed to wait until conference play to get things sorted. JB had the luxury back then because the non-con used to be almost irrelevant. plus the big east was always the best or one of the best leagues...so there were chances galore to build a resume. current incarnation of the ACC isnt that.

im really fighting back the urge to be honest (bc i think it would come across super negative)...Im just shuddering to think of this team in its current state playing houston, kansas and tennessee...bc those games matter a lot to how this season will go.

I've said it every year under red, but ill say it again: i think this team will be pretty good come feb/march: the question has always been if that will even matter by then.

im seeing a lot of the same issues we've seen for a while now: poor inside post defense. no post scoring presence (which will lead to lock down on the perimter). standing around stagnant offense that relies heavily on iso scoring. pick and roll with a center who cannot do anything other than dunk or pass. erratic substitutions that make no sense. failure to keep feeding the hot hand on offense. undersized forwards that have no business in the paint. turning a blowout into a nailbiter.

the length of this team will help a lot on defense. and having a PG will help the offense. but those are just papering over the lack of good schemes and systems in place, both offensively and defensively.

having a point guard like george is much better than not having a PG or forcing a shootin guard to play there. but its not nearly as good as having a PG in place running a very good offensive system. it seems like people think having a PG will automatically create a team that has an offensive identity and system. i dont. Kingz only getting 4 shots is worrying to say the least. having a PG didnt fix that...and i think thats a problem that will linger. betsey was on fire but only got 7 shots. you MUST get these guys the ball when they are cooking like that. but everyone wants their own shots. another thing is these guys were shooting nba 3s for no reason. get close to the line. having a pg didnt really help a lot on shot selection (at least not yet - I know its an exhibition...but still)

im worried that in this era of NIl...when you know starling and freeman are the "big money" players...they will command volume whether it is best for the team or not. theres a lot of mouths to feed and that could be a good thing...but it can also mean not giving volume to the guys who are actually desrving of it. what good is it to have a deep team if it is counter-acted by trying to spread the ball around too much or worse, giving too much volume to the lesser efficient players?

my biggest worry is the interior defense - some teams wont be able to cause a problem with that...but some will. i wish the center could shoot a free throw. if i was an opposing coach i would foul kyle every time he touches it. and i predict if a coach does that, then kyle will have to be benched.

i think this team is talented enough to make the tourney...but if they sneak in in the play-in game...that will be a failure in my mind. and I think they are right around that level unless they get some things ironed out.

just an exhibition...means nthing....just my thoughts from what I saw.

 

[CardiacCuse]

They made 5 straight 3s at the end ( 3 heavily contested) and we didn’t push to win by 30 plus. The obsession that 45-27 didn’t go to 66-27 is getting out of hand.

We played 11 guys- 2 of which we may not see again until garbage time in terms of games that count. They played basically 8.5. That’s not quite the same approach.

this team needs blowouts to get a high NET...its not a trivial matter