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<blockquote data-quote="HensonHall71" data-source="post: 1731795" data-attributes="member: 748389"><p>I agree with you - to reach out peak performance as a team, it has to be with good Belo playing significant minutes and running the offense. I do think the variance in his play will start to normalize to a very high mean over time (may not be this year). In the first Purdue game, he was the best player on the court, including Kofi and Ivey, other times he's struggled, but so has every player on this team.</p><p></p><p>The biggest area I think he can and will improve on is situational awareness - when to step on the peddle and make something happen and when it's not needed - the drive where he got the charge called (it wasn't a charge, but it would have been a turnover anyway) with a little more than 2 min left, just can't happen, just dribbling the ball for 30 seconds is not a bad outcome in that possession, but an unforced turnover with 20 seconds on the shot clock is an awfully negative play -once he learns to pick his spots a bit better, we'll take the negative plays for all the positive ones all day long, he's that good. Some of this is on the coaching staff too - the last 3 minutes of a close game should be set plays with explicit action to get into</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HensonHall71, post: 1731795, member: 748389"] I agree with you - to reach out peak performance as a team, it has to be with good Belo playing significant minutes and running the offense. I do think the variance in his play will start to normalize to a very high mean over time (may not be this year). In the first Purdue game, he was the best player on the court, including Kofi and Ivey, other times he's struggled, but so has every player on this team. The biggest area I think he can and will improve on is situational awareness - when to step on the peddle and make something happen and when it's not needed - the drive where he got the charge called (it wasn't a charge, but it would have been a turnover anyway) with a little more than 2 min left, just can't happen, just dribbling the ball for 30 seconds is not a bad outcome in that possession, but an unforced turnover with 20 seconds on the shot clock is an awfully negative play -once he learns to pick his spots a bit better, we'll take the negative plays for all the positive ones all day long, he's that good. Some of this is on the coaching staff too - the last 3 minutes of a close game should be set plays with explicit action to get into [/QUOTE]
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