Europe Trip Discussion
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Hawks leading 60-44 at half. Garza at it again scoring 15, with 8 rebounds in the first half. Moss with 10 pts and Baer 9.
Makes a difference. Remember the game up in Terp land, using the under armour ball? We practiced with that beforehand as well. Didn't help much...
I think he is 24-27 from the line for 89%. Missed 2 the first day(12-14), none the next game(7-7) and one today at the half(5-6)... Impressive.
These may not be packed arenas, but that is a decent sample size considering they are all opponent's gyms on the road!
With our other bigs improving their shots from the charity stripe, this has me quite stoked! Easily several extra wins this season just because of that. Add in the improved O & D, and look out B1G!!!
I'm not going to lose any sleep over Bohannon shooting poorly using a foreign ball in a meaningless game.
Yeah, Cook only playing 8 minutes, apparently starting, and poor production for him. Makes me wonder if he got dinged.
And in a YMCA looking gym! Can you imagine what the shooters background might be like? I'm with you. Until JBO starts playing like crap in games that matter, I'll hold on to the last half dozen or so real games he played, which were spectacular.
Sorry I didn't see this. I was just following on twitter. Good trip for the Hawks. Especially Garza.
Ok - from a basketball perspective, the trip is over. The boys get to enjoy a bit more vacation, so let's recap how things went. What are your take aways?
Winner:
Garza - dude consistently filled the stat sheet (even in additional time that we didn't expect to see, playing all four games)
Moss - Without seeing the games, I'd guess he took advantage of the emphasis on transition offense. He also shot the ball well from the stats I saw.
Loser:
Wagner - looked like his box scores were pretty empty. That can happen when you're the 5th option. I didn't get to watch much, so I can't say he didn't contribute, as there may have been hustle plays (defense, deflections, charges drawn, etc.), but against this competition I would have liked to see everyone really shine.
Pemsl/Williams - due to missing opportunities to compete (injury). With this much competition, you want to be able to match the punches thrown by the people trying to take your minutes.
The guards didn't seem to shoot it that well overall (Moss was the exception from what I saw), I don't have the stats in front of me, but I remember seeing Bohannon under 50% a few times and seemingly 1-? from 3 point a few times. Not going to worry too much at this point, given different gyms, time change, travel, etc.
It was clearly a focus to get out and run - a lot of the highlights seemed to be fast break. It looks like teams will have to choose whether they are offensive rebounding or getting back to stop our transition attack. If Garza, Cook, Kriener, and co. can clean up the defensive glass consistently, we have a chance to be really really good.
Winner:
Garza - dude consistently filled the stat sheet (even in additional time that we didn't expect to see, playing all four games)
Moss - Without seeing the games, I'd guess he took advantage of the emphasis on transition offense. He also shot the ball well from the stats I saw.
Loser:
Wagner - looked like his box scores were pretty empty. That can happen when you're the 5th option. I didn't get to watch much, so I can't say he didn't contribute, as there may have been hustle plays (defense, deflections, charges drawn, etc.), but against this competition I would have liked to see everyone really shine.
Pemsl/Williams - due to missing opportunities to compete (injury). With this much competition, you want to be able to match the punches thrown by the people trying to take your minutes.
The guards didn't seem to shoot it that well overall (Moss was the exception from what I saw), I don't have the stats in front of me, but I remember seeing Bohannon under 50% a few times and seemingly 1-? from 3 point a few times. Not going to worry too much at this point, given different gyms, time change, travel, etc.
It was clearly a focus to get out and run - a lot of the highlights seemed to be fast break. It looks like teams will have to choose whether they are offensive rebounding or getting back to stop our transition attack. If Garza, Cook, Kriener, and co. can clean up the defensive glass consistently, we have a chance to be really really good.
I was really hoping that Brady could step up and fill the outside shooter role. However, other than the second half of 1st game, he was 0-FER from 3pt land. If he can't outshoot Williams, he won't see the floor.
Last year, yes. The year before our entire team was ice cold from behind the arc and we were run out of the gym in prime time.
I really enjoyed all of these blogs. Seems like a great bunch of young men who genuinely get along and are friends.
I get a kick out of Tyler Cook in the background of many of these blogs. Seems like a pretty funny guy and good teammate. Keeps things fun.
The full length video is no longer available here in the US, however you can watch it and even download it via a proxy server from the Netherlands.
https://nl.proxfree.com/permalink.p...2rVkjfgf9qUIfuzROQdqh/Zu2Cu9dy0I64VYvAG&bit=1
https://nl.proxfree.com/permalink.p...2rVkjfgf9qUIfuzROQdqh/Zu2Cu9dy0I64VYvAG&bit=1
