I missed the game last night and was just checking box scores this morning. How does arguably the best 3pt shooter in the portal only get 3 attempts in a game? Was Kansas face guarding him to deny him the ball?
How does Momcilovic only get three 3-point attempts?
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He got fed up and started chucking late-mid 2nd half. Was really brutal to see. He even made a fall away from the corner.
Kansas had a game plan. We didn't.
Face-guarded him the entire time. Aggressively pushed him off the 3-point line. The made him look VERY uncomfortable the entire night. Made him play defense by cutting and back-dooring him all night. The SEC will use this a blue print!
Pope refused to adjust to KU taking Milan out. We had no one else who could reliably score outside of Diallo.
Because Milan sucks. Thats why hes still in college. Shooter that dont shoot. Hey Pope why didn't you let Milan shoot? I seen a guy that wouldn't grab a rebound. And yall want to run plays for him? Sit him on the bench.
Mom is easy to shut down. He does not move AT ALL without the ball. He's one of the best pure shooters I have seen, but damn just look at his offense from last year and copy that ffs if you dont know how to get him looks. Anything at this point. The entire team improves the minute he starts scoring. Until then, it's gonna be 20 pt defeats because KU showed everyone the way to thump Kentucky.
He has to be schemed open. He can shoot over shorter defenders as we have seen against lesser competition but against power 5 teams he isn’t athletic enough to run floppy action and beat trailing defenders off screens so most his shots have to come off attacking the paint and kicking out once the defense collapses. Problem is we have scoring guards and not floor general style point guards.
Let me politely correct our headline . . . he actually got NO real attempts. He forced up 3 flailing hail marys just out of frustration.
I dont like that our best player by a lot is strictly a spot-up shooter. Doesn't boad well for the rest of the team.
You need to realize that there have been plenty of amazing college players who weren't able to get into the NBA.
Yea hes not one of them. Amazing players will grab a rebound. Run up the court. Hustle...
His dirk fade away didnt go in so I guess he figured hed take it easy the rest of the game. Pure laziness. Im not questioning his ability.
Besides Moreno, Mom was our most effective rebounder on the night. He was probably the only guy boxing anyone out and getting his own boards rather than waiting for the ball to come to him. So I give him credit for that.
Past that, Kansas decided he wasn't going to beat us, and Pope did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to free him up.
It's like the man has no idea how to coach.
Past that, Kansas decided he wasn't going to beat us, and Pope did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to free him up.
It's like the man has no idea how to coach.
He couldn’t get open looks. Even the one three that he hit was a really difficult contested fall away three from the corner. It’s clear that Self designed a defensive plan around smothering Milan, even if it means letting others (like Zoom last night) have lots of open space.
Pope needs to figure out a way to game plan around that. Milan doesn’t have the athleticism to create open shots on his own. He needs help from his teammates and offensive scheme.
Pope needs to figure out a way to game plan around that. Milan doesn’t have the athleticism to create open shots on his own. He needs help from his teammates and offensive scheme.
The kid guarding him stayed in his jock. Also lack of screening, but also Mom did not seem to have a lot of energy in getting open. Mom needs to step up his effort to get open looks aganst better teams he will be facing in the SEC.
Exactly…UK had a shooter last year too with Chandler but there is nothing run to get them shots. It’s only in an up and down game that Mom will get looks.
Yeah, I'm not sure what you can do to get a guy open looks when he just stands there.
I knew he wasn't going to run around like Murray did, but damn, how did he get so many shots up last year?
I find it hard to believe that nobody could figure out how to guard him until last night.
No passing, no ball screens, no cutting to the basket = no open looks. They didn't even try to get him the ball. All he was post up in the same spot outside the three-point line and wait for passing never came because he was never open I don't know how anybody can be so oblivious to you the problem here; move the ball, don't dribble air out of it for 20 seconds and take a bad shot. Pass, cut, PASS. I had really hope the lack of these things the last two years had been due to the injury to point guard... plural. Well all I've seen so far is the same stagnant offense that can't move the ball make passes, cuts, or screen for the players
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