Admittedly, it’s probably because UCF didnt defend great as a team often times, and he was their leader (See Below) Not necessarily an indictment of him tho, to your point.
Fwiw, he only had 5 rebounds in this one, too. Not absolutely terrible, but the bar is high because his expectations will be high. The knights were also outrebounded 43-29 and we’re not amazing at it, so you probably want more from him there.
The other component is players who make a lot of inital noise offensively are gonna get tagged with some of that. You might be right, i haven’t looked into his defense that hard. Just vibes, i guess lol.
Unless you’re at practice and know the coach’s system it’s hard for an outsider to determine whether a player is good defensively or not. Most fans just watch how they guard the ball and are basically ignorant of the rest. It’s a team defense built on everybody doing their job. You can be selfish defensively just as you can be selfish offensively.
Iowa, I saw the same thing. One of the things that makes him more effective facing is that he above average ball handler. If you want to know how Chief will use him focus on the last 10 games of last year.
Iirc that action was there all year, but Jojo was hesitating when he would have space the first half of the season and by the time he decided to do something the defense had already closed the lane.
If he can start hitting that 10 foot jumper to go along with attacking the rim from the top of the key he’s going to be a force on offense.
Until the last 10 games or so we were throwing it to JoJo with his back to the basketball, Then we changed it. We could have done it from the start but did not. Point is if people want to know how we will utilize JoJo reference the tail end of the season.
Interesting addition. If Weaver gets PT it means someone else’s minutes will be cut. Whose will they be? I’ve a sneaking suspicion it’s going to be a Hadnot.
