Trent is 7 for 28 from 2pt and 4 for 16 from 3pt the last two games. How is that on BU? When he is open he isn’t hitting them like he was last year. The coaches don’t shoot the ball for the players. Until Trent can go to his right effectively and consistently proves he can beat his guy off the dribble and score at the rim teams will be able to defend him. None of this is on BU.
Kipper has checked out.
DMW is what he is. He plays great D, rebounds at both ends of the floor and hit the one open 3 he had tonight. Even good teams need players like this off the bench. He starts because our freshmen just aren’t ready.
At some point it falls on the players to play to their potential and do so consistently. We will see how we play the rest of the year, but I see a lot of games like this. We will do a lot of things well and we will do just enough other things poorly to lose games by 8-12 points.
Individually, I agree it falls on the player. Even the best coaches have guys that they can’t get to or can’t help. But when you add up all the individual parts, that overall trend is on the coach. And so far that trend doesn’t look good. It doesn’t matter what kind of talent we bring in if they plateau as freshmen. The biggest leap in performance is generally from freshman to sophomore year. Not always, but the great majority of the time.
If BU is all about positionless basketball and creating mismatches, why not post up Damonte? Or put him at the elbow? He loves to play physical, he’s not a good 3-pt shooter, let him play to his strengths.
Ayo has quickly become the true PG we expected. I think BU needs to find ways to get Trent catch and shoot threes, rather than creating his own because he doesn’t have the ball as much. Ayo can get him the ball.
Who knows what has happened to Kipper. But all offseason Kipper talked about wanting to step up and be the leader. And all offseason BU praised how hard Kipper has worked and how he has stepped up vocally. For him to fall completely off the map probably isn’t on Kipper alone.
But like I said, plenty of basketball left this year and next for BU to prove he can develop players.