You can still have ugly possessions without turnovers and there were a few of those. That 3 pointer he took was bad shot selection too. We had momentum and just wasted that possession. I love the kid and he will be a star I have no doubt but somethings don't show up in the stat sheet.
Spot on...I read some of the comments on him, and you would think he is Bob Cousy. Eventually, maybe.
It is certainly true that he made mistakes. But in a game where Giorgi had 0 points and 2 turnovers, Trent had just 4 points and 1 assist, DMW had 3 points, Miller had 2 points (on 1-6 shooting), and Kofi couldn't hold on to simple passes and only managed to get 6 boards (in another game we got out-rebounded) you and others are singling out the guy who's line, off the bench, is 14 pts, 4 rebounds 4 assists and 2 turnovers.
I agree. He missed a number of plays that he should have made. Trent should have received the ball immediately after making that 3. He seems to have the mentality of it is my turn to shoot, now. Great skills but, definitely needs to learn where to go with the ball.
You may have missed one of my posts. I didn't single him out, I said the entire team outside of Ayo stunk.
Problem wasn’t shooting except for free throws.
It's hard to find the other guys when they are trying to hide. Belo and Kofi were the only other two willing to get involved.
Preach it brother.
That's what I was responding to. Someone said we missed our free throws therefore we were outcoached.
Kofi isn't perfect but I think some folks expect too much from him. He is relatively new to the game (I expect several posters here have more experience than he has). That being said, he is pretty darn good. Compare his freshman stats to Garza and you'll find them to be very similar (with Kofi coming out on top in most). Same with Meyers Leonard.
Some were complaining about his performance in the previous game when in fact he had a much better game while scoring 18 points than he did here scoring 36. In the Duke game he let the game come to him and skillfully invoved his teammates whereas he play too much hero ball against Missouri.
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I get what you're saying but not all bad outcomes are captured as a turnover even when the change of possession is equivalent, e.g. out of control shot that has no chance of going in and with our guys in bad rebounding position
I get that, but even if you assume every missed Curbelo shot was that situation (which it wasn't) then you have 9 possessions where he ended the possession in a positive outcome (5 made shots + 4 assists) to 7 possessions ended in a bad outcome (5 missed shots + 2 turnovers). 9/16 = 56%. Overall we shot 53%. So Curbelo ending possessions with a basket or an assist 56% of the time is not bad. And again, not all 5 of his missed shots conform to that specific scenario where he takes a bad shot. I know he jacked up a bad 3, that was dumb, but can't think of any other specific instances. Pretty sure some of his misses were layups that were not bad shots to take.
I have tried for several years to find out which coach is in charge of shooting/free throws. Does anyone know? Coaching shooting is an art & just because you are good at coaching or were a good shooter yourself doesnt mean you can teach it or help someone get better at it. I have a good friend who was the free throw shooting coach for the Dallas Mavericks for years & watched him not only teach NBA players but numerous college players too how to better shoot free throws. Since we have been a poor free throw shooting team for years it may very well be that we are "getting outcoached" in that area.
