What has changed?

[mark79]

1) Our AA guard Judah drives and scores or he hits Magic Maliq at the foul line or on the roll
3) All players cut and move because Maliq will find them.
4) Bell rebounds, is deadly from 3 and plays defense
5) Taylor cleans up and rebounds
6) Starling hitting 3s and midrange shots
7) Q being Q

Guess what. We’re a team!

 

[Niastri]

I hate to say it, because I was the biggest fanboy around, but Williams getting kicked off the team.

 

[mark79]

I hate to say it, because I was the biggest fanboy around, but Williams getting kicked off the team.

I hate to say it too but you’re right.

 

[23Zone]

Look at their record since the dismissal. Not a coincidence

 

[Marsh01]

Benny gone. Should have happened sooner than it did.

 

[Zepharus]

Benny gone. Should have happened sooner than it did.

Cut off the head to kill the snake. you saw on full display DURING a game the push back Red gets... imagine that with perhaps the ringleader still around ... now imagine OFF court and more

 

[cliftonparksufan]

I hate to say it, because I was the biggest fanboy around, but Williams getting kicked off the team.

It has to be. I think Red got their attention.

 

[LoveShack]

1) Our AA guard Judah drives and scores or he hits Magic Maliq at the foul line or on the roll
3) All players cut and move because Maliq will find them.
4) Bell rebounds, is deadly from 3 and plays defense
5) Taylor cleans up and rebounds
6) Starling hitting 3s and midrange shots
7) Q being Q

Guess what. We’re a team!

All this and not even a mention of #2

 

[orangenauburn]

All this and not even a mention of #2

Well usually you want to avoid #2

 

[gmoney44]

I hate to say it, because I was the biggest fanboy around, but Williams getting kicked off the team.

It’s a tail of two teams. Great call by Red to give Benny the heave ho. Unfortunately it looks like in was a day late and a dollar short. At least we show real progress.

 

[mark79]

All this and not even a mention of #2

Oops. I’ll insert this:

2) Red has command of the team and we even see a pretty darn good zone emerge

 

[RyanCuse44]

If it was Red or one of the assistants, but what they did with Taylor about 3 games ago was masterful. Its installed more confidence in him now and he's giving us double digit scoring the last 2 out of 3 games.

 

[General20]

One thing I noticed is that early in the year, we couldn't get everybody contributing at the same time. Bell started the year scoring and shooting, but Copeland didn't do much. Then Copeland started contributing a lot and Bell completely stopped scoring.

It's important to note that Starling, Copeland, Brown, Bell, even Mintz have take huge steps forward during the year this year. Earlier on, everybody was figuring themselves out, now they all know what they can do, what each other can do, and they can focus on attacking the other team's weaknesses.

Last night pretty much anybody who had Johnson on him was going to try to score. Bell, Copeland, Starling all took turns scoring on him in their own way. Mostly Mintz abused him.

Nobody is unsure where they belong in the offense, no matter who has the ball. That is a huge difference maker. We've now come to a place where we score 82 points on 58% shooting and people complain we had a bad game.

 

[Cuse181]

Shooting 55%+ a game hasn’t hurt

 

[mark79]

One thing I noticed is that early in the year, we couldn't get everybody contributing at the same time. Bell started the year scoring and shooting, but Copeland didn't do much. Then Copeland started contributing a lot and Bell completely stopped scoring.

It's important to note that Starling, Copeland, Brown, Bell, even Mintz have take huge steps forward during the year this year. Earlier on, everybody was figuring themselves out, now they all know what they can do, what each other can do, and they can focus on attacking the other team's weaknesses.

Last night pretty much anybody who had Johnson on him was going to try to score. Bell, Copeland, Starling all took turns scoring on him in their own way. Mostly Mintz abused him.

Nobody is unsure where they belong in the offense, no matter who has the ball. That is a huge difference maker. We've now come to a place where we score 82 points on 58% shooting and people complain we had a bad game.

I’ve heard it said that a team is like a chain, in that it is only as strong as its weakest link. In this case, removing that weakest link allowed the rest of the links to turn into a pretty strong chain with each link knowing its purpose. Man that sounds really corny. Oh well.

 

[orangenauburn]

6-2 last 8

131-179 from the line in that stretch

Two games we went 22-33 and 25-39 from the line (47-72)

Definitely left points off the board

 

[mark79]

6-2 last 8

131-179 from the line in that stretch

Two games we went 22-33 and 25-39 from the line (47-72)

Definitely left points off the board

You gotta wonder whether our players are tiring playing all those minutes. Well we know what JAB thinks about that don’t we.

 

[SBU72]

All this and not even a mention of #2

To Bell's line "taking mid-range shots off the dribble". Adds value more than the 2 pts he scores.

 

[tbonezone]

i don't blame benny being gone as much as i credit bell finally making treys,