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<blockquote data-quote="ChiefGritty" data-source="post: 1678100" data-attributes="member: 746137"><p>I see kind of a three-legged stool of what's going wrong here, with all of them sort of feeding into one another:</p><p></p><p>1. The big question we knew we had going into the year, the obvious hinge point between us being great or just merely good, was what Curbelo looked like with a bigger role, more burden as a scorer, and an inability to let the bench cool him down when he gets a bit out of control as he often did last year. It's not going well, and the lack of complementary/supplementary PG options grows even more glaring.</p><p></p><p>2. The problem we didn't see coming is that this team can't shoot at all. Whatever magic Da'Monte conjured last year (such an underrated key factor) seems to have disappeared, Plummer has looked the furthest thing from a Power Five battle tested senior, Goode doesn't play, etc. So it's easy and low-cost for the defense to play off of Curbelo and gum up his passing options, as well as play Guillver's Travels defense all over Kofi.</p><p></p><p>3. And maybe the most disturbing thing, while I do think this team is trying hard, and the pretty decent defensive performance so far speaks to that, they've just become an incredibly cute, intricate, I hate to use this word but soft team on the offensive end. A finesse team, maybe that's the best way to say it. How did that happen? Why hasn't Underwood blown a gasket in these games?</p><p></p><p>And that goes back to #2. The 2019-20 team also couldn't shoot at all. And they were the best offensive team that couldn't shoot I've ever seen in college basketball, because they were both incredibly precise and disciplined in the way they ran their sets and also just hard-nosed and tough. We've totally lost that.</p><p></p><p>Some combination of Plummer, Goode, Trent, Da'Monte, Grandison, whoever, needs to open up the floor for us or I'm just at a loss for how this gets any better offensively.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ChiefGritty, post: 1678100, member: 746137"] I see kind of a three-legged stool of what's going wrong here, with all of them sort of feeding into one another: 1. The big question we knew we had going into the year, the obvious hinge point between us being great or just merely good, was what Curbelo looked like with a bigger role, more burden as a scorer, and an inability to let the bench cool him down when he gets a bit out of control as he often did last year. It's not going well, and the lack of complementary/supplementary PG options grows even more glaring. 2. The problem we didn't see coming is that this team can't shoot at all. Whatever magic Da'Monte conjured last year (such an underrated key factor) seems to have disappeared, Plummer has looked the furthest thing from a Power Five battle tested senior, Goode doesn't play, etc. So it's easy and low-cost for the defense to play off of Curbelo and gum up his passing options, as well as play Guillver's Travels defense all over Kofi. 3. And maybe the most disturbing thing, while I do think this team is trying hard, and the pretty decent defensive performance so far speaks to that, they've just become an incredibly cute, intricate, I hate to use this word but soft team on the offensive end. A finesse team, maybe that's the best way to say it. How did that happen? Why hasn't Underwood blown a gasket in these games? And that goes back to #2. The 2019-20 team also couldn't shoot at all. And they were the best offensive team that couldn't shoot I've ever seen in college basketball, because they were both incredibly precise and disciplined in the way they ran their sets and also just hard-nosed and tough. We've totally lost that. Some combination of Plummer, Goode, Trent, Da'Monte, Grandison, whoever, needs to open up the floor for us or I'm just at a loss for how this gets any better offensively. [/QUOTE]
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