The team is offensively challenged which means Harper has to start and hope he gets out of the shooting slump.
No... God no.... We need scoring.... Not fouling. You can go smaller with Baker Mulcahy McConnell Young and Johnson. Rotate Harper in.
Cant say this enough! I watch for boxing out everytime and he is our biggest offender
Mathis? You’ve got to be kidding. He’s been the worst player in the rotation by a mile.
Would like to see him just spend the early part of the game going to work on the interior to get him going. Even tonight, he had some success when they got him the ball in the paint. The outside shot just has not been there for him, and he had some really bad misses from 3 tonight.
Yeah this is one of the things that baffles me, in 2020 he was relishing the opportunity to finish through contact and flex his biceps. Now he wants no part of it. I'm glad he has a great 12 ft fallaway but the team needs guys who can get to the rim to keep the offense flowing, and he's gotta be one of them.
Well, things have changed. As Pike pointed out, now he's top of the list on every team's scouting report. After his hot start, he's been getting a ton of extra attention, the best defenders on every team against him and such. He has to work through it and find a new level where he can still get his with all this attention on him. I honestly think half the problem is that Geo was a bit off for much of the season as well, so the extra attention away from him hasn't cost the opponents anything. If someone else could punish the opponent for focusing on Ron, then things would loosen up. This will work itself out. Hopefully they adjust and start scoring again, because the shot percentages are like they were three years ago.
Picking up on your last point, I just wish Geo would take over and take 20 shots a game. He hits 2 in a row and either stops shooting or misses one and stops shooting. Geo can pull up for the 13-16 mid range jumper all day. Once he beats his guy and shoots over him , he will garner more attention freeing someone else up , maybe Caleb maybe Ron. Ron used to be a smart instinctive player and that has all disappeared. He doesn’t get the ball and attack. He gets the ball, holds it a second, thinks about what he wants to do . It is ruining him. He is playing lazy or if in fact he is not, it looks like he is playing lazy, hanging at the three point line and not hitting the offensive glass or getting down low on the block. He doesn’t even attempt to box out or get rebounds . He used to be an elite defender , used to block shots, used to fly for dunks. It has all disappeared. It started the day he was named to the Wooden Award list and it has been a curse.
Baker once healed came around when his intensity stepped up. He's hustling out there and his defense has responded in kind. Harper loafs around the court. Watch him away from the ball on O, he just stands there. Now I don't know basketball X's and O's but it's got to be a lot easier to guard a stationary target. On the defensive end he's just lackadaisical. It's almost like he expects everything to come to him without effort.
No, it's the transponders. You have to take them out, turn them around, and put them back in. It's that simple.
