Rough game that turned out as the nervous fans/negative nellies predicted. This result was not outside of what most thought could happen, although it was toward the extreme due to a great shooting performance by Indiana and adjusted strategy (taking a lot of quick 3s trying to climb back in - which did not fall).
Flush it. It's one game, and we didn't play that poorly, our peripheral players didn't shoot well, so Bohannon, Cook, Pemsl were left being outscored on a scorching perimeter assault from Indiana.
For this year, there are two possibilities. 1) We somehow sneak in because the committee values Top 50 wins and teams like Rhode Island, Illinois State, etc. are left out. In that case, I just want to see a good effort against an NCAA squad in the play in game. 2) We are selected as a high seed for the NIT tournament.
I would love to see Jok become a facilitator the rest of the way. Let the younger guys handle the scoring load and begin to take control of the team. He'll still get his when he's open in transition or in late clock situations, but I'd like to a concerted effort to become an assist guy.
I want to see our guys have more defined transition roles:
Pemsl, Kriener and Garza will be our main "windex players" -- cleaning the glass and getting the outlet pass to push the break. Cook and Wagner need to corral anything in their area, but I'd primarily be looking for them to get out and run for easy buckets at the rim.
Bohannon and Ellingson (and possibly Connor?) will be our shooting specialists, spacing the floor in transition and creating space for our forwards in the half court. Both will need to work on their dribble drive game to keep defenses honest.
Williams, Baer, Uhl, and Wagner will need to be our energy/garbage players willing to do the dirty work. Grab as many offensive rebounds as possible, deflect passes, set solid screens and finish any easy opportunities that come from those plays.
In the half court, we're going to have to rely a lot more on setting good screens and using ball movement. As posters have pointed out, we don't have many great slashing threats that have proven to be able to penetrate consistently, so we'll have to get the defense off balance by swinging the ball from side to side and either taking open outside shots or penetrating off pump-fake and poor close outs.
On the defensive side, not much will change, but I think we'll see a better effort with Dom, Baer, Wagner and Williams being the upper classmen. None of those guys have come through the program and been "anointed". They know that they have to work hard for what they'll get, and I think that will translate in leadership and effort throughout the team.
Flush it. It's one game, and we didn't play that poorly, our peripheral players didn't shoot well, so Bohannon, Cook, Pemsl were left being outscored on a scorching perimeter assault from Indiana.
For this year, there are two possibilities. 1) We somehow sneak in because the committee values Top 50 wins and teams like Rhode Island, Illinois State, etc. are left out. In that case, I just want to see a good effort against an NCAA squad in the play in game. 2) We are selected as a high seed for the NIT tournament.
I would love to see Jok become a facilitator the rest of the way. Let the younger guys handle the scoring load and begin to take control of the team. He'll still get his when he's open in transition or in late clock situations, but I'd like to a concerted effort to become an assist guy.
I want to see our guys have more defined transition roles:
Pemsl, Kriener and Garza will be our main "windex players" -- cleaning the glass and getting the outlet pass to push the break. Cook and Wagner need to corral anything in their area, but I'd primarily be looking for them to get out and run for easy buckets at the rim.
Bohannon and Ellingson (and possibly Connor?) will be our shooting specialists, spacing the floor in transition and creating space for our forwards in the half court. Both will need to work on their dribble drive game to keep defenses honest.
Williams, Baer, Uhl, and Wagner will need to be our energy/garbage players willing to do the dirty work. Grab as many offensive rebounds as possible, deflect passes, set solid screens and finish any easy opportunities that come from those plays.
In the half court, we're going to have to rely a lot more on setting good screens and using ball movement. As posters have pointed out, we don't have many great slashing threats that have proven to be able to penetrate consistently, so we'll have to get the defense off balance by swinging the ball from side to side and either taking open outside shots or penetrating off pump-fake and poor close outs.
On the defensive side, not much will change, but I think we'll see a better effort with Dom, Baer, Wagner and Williams being the upper classmen. None of those guys have come through the program and been "anointed". They know that they have to work hard for what they'll get, and I think that will translate in leadership and effort throughout the team.
