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Message: [QUOTE="DomeHolmes, post: 5599460, member: 10113"] There are a few other problems with the offense we are running not yet mentioned. -1st about Sadiq, it was said he was a rebounder and needed to be on the floor, but he is what we call a “ball watcher”, so is Kiyan. When a shot goes up from the perimeter. They just watch it. They rarely crash the glass. For such a good athlete, his (Sadiq’s)rebounds per 40 minutes is not very good. Especially offensively. For a comparison, Kyle has three times as many offensive rebounds per 40 minutes as Sadiq. (And 5x blocks) He combined with Kiyan for a total of two rebounds in 39 minutes. That’s completely unacceptable. Red needs to light a fire under their ass. Second, their center was probably the second best defensive center after Kansas that we’ve played. He was very good, but so was their rotational help. Every time he stepped out on someone driving the lane, someone rotated to take away a dump down to Kyle. The problem we have is Kiyan, who has the second fewest minutes out of this group, of George, Kingz, JJ, and Betsey, has more than twice as many free throws as any of them. He is the only one actually drawing contact. JJ gets into the lane, then throws up a floater over the shot blocker or secondary help but never initiates contact. George is good with an open lane, but only seems to drive when it’s a clear path. Kingz went hard to the basket against Tennessee, but not much else. And It’s not Betseys game. Kyle has showed that he is capable of being a crafty and patient low post scorer on occasion and actually does a decent job kicking out too, but we don’t really run offense through him. I think it’s something we need to do more of. But you could tell by watching the game yesterday, The scouting report is out on us. We are a one trick pony on offense. Their center stayed home, patrolled the paint and allowed them guard 4 out. Not many teams will have a center as capable as Saint Joe’s to do what they did, however. And eventually, he fouled out, not because he was foul, prone, just because he was doing everything for them on defense, and it caught up with him. Although I’m sure it’s been mentioned somewhere before, but Kingz and Betsy shot 60% (6-10) from three and 20% (2-10) from the foul line. That that’s probably never happened in the history of basketball. [/QUOTE]

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