The second half last night was basically a 20-point lead for KU. A couple of times, around the 12-minute mark and 8-minute mark, the lead was over 20 points, in AFH. What would it have hurt to give Nojus 5 minutes to see what he can do? I don't understand.
He hasn't shown anything because he hasn't been given the chance. What did Watson show before the last couple weeks? He looks like a good bench player out there now when given the chance.
Nojus is the closest thing offensively to Milan as we got. He's not going to shoot the ball as good, he's probably not going to defend as good but what he will do is be a threat to shoot a 3, be a threat to drive, he's got a good pull up jump shot. All that pulls a guy out of the lane to defend him. Opens things up to our other main scorers.
Not only are both of them not scoring, they are not even looking to shoot the ball. Both had plenty of oppoturnities last night to shoot, they passed them up and KU would not even guard them until they got into the paint.
That probably would have worked out better than what's going on now, but TJ decided after Maui and about 20 minutes of game time that Nojus wasn't going to play this year.
Hence why our offensive metrics are in free-fall. They basically have to play 4-5 when those two are out there, which makes things more difficult for the guards.
There was a point in the game where Heise got the ball and immediately passed it to Jackson, who clearly was not ready for the ball. The way he looked at Heise was the most “WTF are you doing?” I’ve ever seen
I was thinking the same thing last night, we are basically playing 4 on 5. The ball is sticking, we are getting to much dribbling that gets us nowhere and everyone is trying to do more to make up for it. 3 of 21 from three, 11 of 20 from the FT line. We look lost on offense, and teams are taking advantage of that fact. When we double down in the post, teams are looking to kick it out to the open guy, and our bigs are trying to play bully ball and back the guy down. Sometimes they need to do it, but we are doing it way to much and the ball is not being passed to the open guy for a better shot.
It's not delusional. Team is going to be fine but definitely need a serious reset.
They're a tough group of kids, but from what I can tell, they're mostly happy go lucky or soft spoken. Leaders by example. Nothing wrong with that at all, though sometimes you do need that really vocal leader to point out things between timeouts.
The first non Milan games were better though it seems. Even ASU and UA were. Its definitely trending down, which seems odd. I would have hoped they'd figure more out as they went, not get worse.
it is delusional.....we are not a 1 seed team right now....if the season ended today, we would probably be a high 2 seed
