Ever team has a weakness. What is your way to early predictions of next years teams potential flaws.
Defense, interior scoring and rebounding will be the 26-27 teams weakness
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I personally think on paper we have a really good mix of everything. Floor spacing and shooting I really hope unleash the super efficient offense we were hoping to have when Pope was brought in. Really hope it works out and last season was the low.
Rebounding definitely jumps out. Pope is still the coach so defense and effort will be inconsistent at best.
I think the rebounding and defense will be the weakness of this team.
Let's get the final roster and see some game action. It's really hard to get a feel for this stuff on paper. Different teams can find ways of making plays on defense. Other teams that should be good somehow struggle.
It is better than last year where the team weakness was pretty much everything.
This team has no weakness. Think 2012 or 2015. Maybe even 96. We have three first round draft picks and probably 2 second rounders. Talent almost always wins out
I just hope they come out ready to play and compete and not get down 20 each game. Or get punched in the mouth like Iowa St. Did and just quit.
And lack of talent, juice, and excitement
Oh and those 10mins every game where our guys look like they have never touched a basketball before
Oh and those 10mins every game where our guys look like they have never touched a basketball before
This appears to be popes worst defensive team he will have had here which is a scary thought. Defense, rebounding and coaching all areas of major concern,
Defense potentially. This team will have no issue scoring any way they like. Wilkins and and Zoom can drive and dish with the best of em'.
Momcilovic, Williams, McBride will command a healthy amount of respect around the 3 point line to keep that paint area breathing just fine.
Momcilovic, Williams, McBride will command a healthy amount of respect around the 3 point line to keep that paint area breathing just fine.
I really wish he would full court press and pressure. I’m tired of half court. I think need to speed teams up and shoot like pitinos teams used to do.
Presses are used to slow the game down more than speed the game up these days.
We’ll be vulnerable to penetration because we’ll have to go big more than is wise to leverage our bigs’ range.
Our spacing won’t be great.
We’ll rely too much on one-pass pick and roll stuff, resulting in opponent defenses always knowing what we’re going to do.
All because Pope still doesn’t understand his own system and won’t bring in one more decent guard with range after we (hopefully) land Momo (and this list will be a lot longer if we don’t land him).
But maybe we’ll be lucky and Pope will prove me wrong by bringing in that guard after all.
Our spacing won’t be great.
We’ll rely too much on one-pass pick and roll stuff, resulting in opponent defenses always knowing what we’re going to do.
All because Pope still doesn’t understand his own system and won’t bring in one more decent guard with range after we (hopefully) land Momo (and this list will be a lot longer if we don’t land him).
But maybe we’ll be lucky and Pope will prove me wrong by bringing in that guard after all.
I am assuming in this thread we get Momcilovic.
In that case, our offense looks to have the shooting and offensive firepower set. Offense from the beginning should not be an issue, and defensively, Pope is going to have to start off emphasizing defense and rebounding straight away. I don't think there is any debating that. We'll be much further ahead offensively just on talent alone, than we will be defensively.
We're going to absolutely NEED Malachi Moreno to become a much more central defensive presence, we're going to need him and big Franck both to hold their own inside and become rim protectors. Can that happen ? Are they capable? Maybe not to the degree we would want, but we have to see them be able to stand up physically to the punishing day in day out of SEC play.
McBride and N'Diaye will also have MASSIVE roles to fulfill while they are in there, and with the substitutions and lineup combinations Pope is going to have, he is going to have to push the right buttons to see it all through.
I'm carefully holding out and reserving judgement until I can see them play and see how Pope intends to utilize everyone, and how the defense and rebounding is. I have doubts we can get everyone to communicate and get on the same page early in the season.
So yes, defense and rebounding will be a primary issue to address. With a tough OOC schedule, we should learn quickly how well they can hold up over the long haul.
Bottom line : Coach Pope is still going to have to prove he can coach his *** off to get the most from this squad to enable him another season here. That's the cold hard truth of the matter.
A huge hill to climb.
In that case, our offense looks to have the shooting and offensive firepower set. Offense from the beginning should not be an issue, and defensively, Pope is going to have to start off emphasizing defense and rebounding straight away. I don't think there is any debating that. We'll be much further ahead offensively just on talent alone, than we will be defensively.
We're going to absolutely NEED Malachi Moreno to become a much more central defensive presence, we're going to need him and big Franck both to hold their own inside and become rim protectors. Can that happen ? Are they capable? Maybe not to the degree we would want, but we have to see them be able to stand up physically to the punishing day in day out of SEC play.
McBride and N'Diaye will also have MASSIVE roles to fulfill while they are in there, and with the substitutions and lineup combinations Pope is going to have, he is going to have to push the right buttons to see it all through.
I'm carefully holding out and reserving judgement until I can see them play and see how Pope intends to utilize everyone, and how the defense and rebounding is. I have doubts we can get everyone to communicate and get on the same page early in the season.
So yes, defense and rebounding will be a primary issue to address. With a tough OOC schedule, we should learn quickly how well they can hold up over the long haul.
Bottom line : Coach Pope is still going to have to prove he can coach his *** off to get the most from this squad to enable him another season here. That's the cold hard truth of the matter.
A huge hill to climb.
I'm inclined to lean towards focusing on making sure the strengths are maxed out.
Make the offense sing like an elite chorus. Get the ball up the court quickly and get it moving with intention. Drive and kick, repost, force mismatches.
Then emphasize rebounding.
Make the length the bread and butter of the D. Just be long and in the way while blocking shots then rally like the devil is on your heels to the glass.
I just don't see many if any Rondo's, MKG's, or AD's showing up.
We look to be relatively stout at center and just tolerable at best on D otherwise but we will be pretty long and that is not nothing if leveraged correctly.
Make the offense sing like an elite chorus. Get the ball up the court quickly and get it moving with intention. Drive and kick, repost, force mismatches.
Then emphasize rebounding.
Make the length the bread and butter of the D. Just be long and in the way while blocking shots then rally like the devil is on your heels to the glass.
I just don't see many if any Rondo's, MKG's, or AD's showing up.
We look to be relatively stout at center and just tolerable at best on D otherwise but we will be pretty long and that is not nothing if leveraged correctly.
Assuming Mom is ours, this team has a chance to be ELECTRIC on offense. Moreno needs to take a step forward physically on the glass and we have to hope one of the hybrid 3/4s we have..(Hawthorne, Justin, Kam, ousmane) can at least be serviceable on the boards.
But this team on paper should outscore a lot of teams.
But this team on paper should outscore a lot of teams.
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****** part about that is offense is only half the equation. We better score 100 plus because a mark Pope defense will get dog walked.
Those of us who read well appreciate posts like that. You just weren't his target audience.
Honestly—mascot game. Scratch ain’t cutting it. Give him bigger claws and fangs and splatter blood on him like he just mauled a hiker.
defense will be a weakness but its always a weakness for Pope. But interior scoring wont be . Diallo is superb at scoring from the paint to the mid range, Wilkins gets to the rim and scores, and then McBride and Moreno are good scorers in the paint. Remains to be seen with rebounding, Diallo as a PG last year averaged 4rpg and we'll need Wilkins and Kam to use their athleticism to go get some more rebounds but they both average 2 a game which isnt bad, just up it to 3 and we're good , but if Mom is going to be our PF, we need the guards to rebound more.
Problem is he was the only go to, so I appreciate Oweh, for all he did for us