Like his feelings? Maybe
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healthy, just wasnt good enough to play at this level of play yet
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At 6’9" we need Cedric. I am hoping that he will have a break out season.
he still might, but he has to learn to play to his strength…
ced is 6’9 and strong, but isnt that bouncy nor does he have a long reach
our post defense significantly drops when he plays… right now he plays the “im going to try and block your shot” game … and with him doing that the level of our post defense drastically drops…
francis and jojo can do that becuase they are bouncy and crazy long… but teams can shoot over ced.
ps im talking comparative… not saying ced is the worst, but we are top 3 elite with jojo/tugler, we are 5 levels lower with ced, which isnt horrendous but a noticable drop…and you dont want a drop like that in a game like this…
if ced can develop a breaon and nura zanna defense, he could still have a break out… they werent trying to block but push you so far out the post they were out of postion to score… we were an elite defense with breaon/zana despite both not being great shot blockers
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Need to turn him loose so he can take his lumps in pre-conference.
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Yes it is up to him.
No way this offense is better than the 2019-20, or 2020-21 teams. Even the Rob Gray 2018-19 team I felt more confident about getting buckets because they had guards that could lead transition after the rebound
I felt like Tugler was out of position to effectively protect the rim against their big guy. If Roberts was supposed to be between their big and the rim, he also was out of position to do so. Lath wouldn’t have been any worse, maybe better at protecting the lane and we could have made up for his lack of offense with deliberate schemes to take advantage of Cryer, Sharp, & TA.
If the game wasn’t too big for their freshman, it shouldn’t have been too big for Miller, either. At least 5-10 minutes. I believe we need to get him going now to pay dividends later in the season.
We need offensive sets to take advantage of Cryer, Sharp, and Arceneaux. They are too good offensively as a group not to scheme offensively around them.
Yes, that may be too much complaining. Auburn is really good and so are we. I just get frustrated with our seemingly lackadaisical approach to offense.
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all the teams you named are statistically poor shooting team… who were great at getting offensive rebound on bad offenses
there is a video on youtube right now talking about “how you can be a horrible shooting team and still win games” based on our 2019-20 team that has a 100k views…
a screen shot from that video
the rob gray team was literally shut down against every legitamte defense we played, 2 a year (just cincy) ,and they shut us down… (becuase all they had to do was sell out on gray)
to clarify,
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im talking about “team”, not “individual player”… rob gray, marcus sasser, grimes, caleb mills are better individual scorers than anyone on this team…but this probably going to be the best offense “Team” in the Sampson era and it probably wont be close except the final 4 team…
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we are talking season wide, accross all ranges of opponents
we’ve never had a team built to score more than this years team… this is the best combination of post scoring, 3pt making, a offensive depth that we’ve ever had … against the average opponent that will give up open shots and driving lanes, this team will light it up
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I think the team with Carlton, Edwards and Taze was our most balanced offensive team. We could only wonder what would have happened if Marcus and Tramon didn’t get injured that year.
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full heatlhy with marcus and tramon, yes i 100% agree that team had the highest potential… more than this year… but the team on the court that played, i think this current team is more balanced…
that team had comparable post scoring to this team, for sure… but every guard on that team shot 33% or worse from 3…
remove stats and just using film- lj, sharp are better shooters than edwards… terrance, milos, mercy, mccarthy (redshiting) are on par with edwards and better than everyone else on that team, ramon (senior) is on par with fabian, and better than everyone else on that team (at the level they were at that year)
I would have liked to see Mercy Miller get minutes. Let’s see what he could do against Auburn’s length. Auburn’s freshman, Pettiford, ripped us a new one. I was impressed with Auburn crowd at Toyota Center. A gentleman sitting behind us was from Clear Lake. He graduated from Auburn and has been working at NASA since the 1970s. He said the Greater Houston area has about 1,000 active alumni members. Not too shabby.
Let me shorten your diatribe …… No !
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To shorten your diatribe…… No !
we have 2 games before bama; Louisiana and Hofstra
both teams have 6’8 centers, we can probably jwan post up, and ball movement open 3 our way to a 25point hofstra win and 40 points louisnana win… but i hope we take those games to challenge the guy
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make lj, sharp and Terrance attack defenders off the dribble… start getting that muscle memory in and working on the kinks… you don’t want the 1st time you are doing your moves to be vs a top 3 team
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rotate lath and mercy in early to see how they look when the game matters, pull them if it starts imploding, and put the starters back in, these are games we can bounce back from being down early
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limit mylik and ramons mins, not saying this in a negative way, but we know who they are at this point … dont get me wrong both could put 15pts on these teams if they tried…i just know none of that 15 will translate to the top 20 opponents
random side note is we have a 1.5 week break after Louisiana, i didn’t even notice, till i saw how many games hostra has between our game
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https://x.com/Joseph_Duarte/status/1856027835950936224?t=m0FfdR71j09krJQCm_eNwA&s=19
I alluded to this on the game thread. Glad KS acknowledged this.
I think mercy will win that 8th man spot when it’s all said and done. I think that’s what’s going to get this team to the next gear. Stopping Uzan, Sharp, LJ, Mercy and TA.good luck, at least 2 of the 5 will be on
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Been saying this for years.
The biggest weakness in Sampson’s defensive philosophy is facing really good passing teams. Trapping and double teaming definitely has it’s advantages but there’s no way a team can rotate quick enough facing a team that doesn’t allow the ball to get sticky.
That’s what happened against Auburn (especially in the 2nd half). They were spreading the court (creating space) but we kept trying to trap them on the perimeter and they moved the ball very quickly (making quick passes) and by doing so caught our D out of position countless times. So much so that they were getting numerous layups and point blank looks in the paint.
Would’ve really liked to see what we could’ve done defensively down the stretch against them by not continually trying to double them along the perimeter. Doubling in the paint against them? Totally understand. Perimeter? That killed us down the stretch and why we couldn’t get stops.
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To be fair that’s always been the key to beating the Sampson D. Usually we have posters down low that cut off the paint forcing movement to the perimeter and across the court. So what would usually get us is if they have hot shooters, Auburn was able to get to the paint better than usual against us.
Pesik already pointed out that last year we would attack them up at the mid court and start forcing the action up there. I expect us to get there later in the year as Milos grows into that role more. I also expect adjustments and Francis getting healthy to help out.