Talley is talented, and capable of helping us. He's not a match for what THT brings to the team.
Zone Offense Struggles
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Talley is talented, and capable of helping us. He's not a match for what THT brings to the team.
What does THT bring?
It’s far more equitable than the minutes played suggest. Talley’s lack of minutes aren’t basketball related imo.
2nd best rebounding percentage on the team behind Jacobson, 3rd best assist percentage behind Babb and Haliburton, 2nd highest steal percentage behind Haliburton, 4th best block percentage, 2nd best turnover percentage and 2nd best defensive rating
Pretty consistent with someone playing that position getting the 3rd most usage (2nd when weighted by minutes) and 4th most minutes overall.
If you’re into advanced stats, he also has the worst PER of rotation guys in conference play, lowest ORating and eFG% overall.
I don’t think the drop off would be as large as the minutes played would suggest. Hopefully both finish the season on high notes.
As an aside, it’s great that we’re getting so much experience against the zone. I think it’s probably because we’re such a handful to guard, but the more we see it, the more we’re going to learn how to defeat it.
Yeah as with most things ball movement will get good looks and it's taking some time to get the ball swinging both ways vs. the zones...but there were spurts last night.
This group has been fun so far...probably about a month ahead of schedule for having things come together vs. what I figured. Hope it keeps going.
We get moving way too fast against the zone sometimes and then over pass. I love Tyrese Haliburton and we are nowhere near as good of a team without him, but last night in particular he looked like he was in too high of a gear against the zone. Someone would pass it to him and then he would pump fake almost before he caught it and then dribbled and left his feet to throw passes that nearly got picked off or thrown away. That seemed to speed everyone up and we seemed out of control at times.
I chalk it up to him being a freshman and a very high IQ player. He sees things before they develop but gets too excited and speeds his game up. Same could be said about a few other guys on our team. I do like the fact they have a tendency to over pass than not pass enough. Speaks to the general unselfishness of the team.
They will get the zone figured out. The more they see it and the more they practice it the better they will be.
I chalk it up to him being a freshman and a very high IQ player. He sees things before they develop but gets too excited and speeds his game up. Same could be said about a few other guys on our team. I do like the fact they have a tendency to over pass than not pass enough. Speaks to the general unselfishness of the team.
They will get the zone figured out. The more they see it and the more they practice it the better they will be.
I’ve honestly been surprised that people go away from the zone against us and go back to man to man. We struggle when teams go 2-3 zone against us and put a lot of pressure up front
CycloneErik
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What if they're still a month ahead of schedule?
I guess it will be more fun?
I know that's unacceptable and all...we as fans might just have to deal with it.
Iowa plays a 1-2 zone. Jorbo and Cook don't play defense.
I love it that the ribbon board in this photo says "Be a Team Player." Ejim epitomized what it means to score 48 and be a team player!
Against man we're averaging 0.943 points per possession in the half court. Against zone we're averaging 1.022 points per possession in the half court
