A few random thoughts after yesterday's win, sorry if any of these have been discussed at length already:
- 3 second violation...does this rule still exist in college basketball? My goodness Haas just camps out in the lane, spending 10+ seconds with a foot never leaving the lane. Perhaps I don't understand the rule correctly, but he basically committed a 3 second violation on every offensive possession he was in the game.
- one of the better comebacks I've seen, just a steady performance by our seniors and leaders on the team. With that being said, I feel like one of the reasons we fell behind is we tend to settle for long range shots early in shot clocks way too much. I get that Fran has given Jarrod and Pete the ultimate green light, but understanding game situations a bit better might prevent things from getting so lopsided in the first place. Just because you're open from three doesn't mean you have to shoot it...sometimes a dribble or two will create a much easier shot or draw a defender that opens up someone in the lane for a bunny. I wish we didn't settle for so many 3pt shots, especially when things are falling for us
- Fran is doing a great job with playing time distribution on this team. While in a perfect world it would be nice to get some of the young kids minutes, he is trying to do one thing and one thing only and that is win basketball games. He tried to give Ellingson minutes but he just wasn't dialed in at all yesterday so he had no choice but to pull him for the rest of the game. Love the play from Uhl and Baer off the bench, they have been fantastic.
- with an experienced team, a let down wouldn't be expected coming off two big wins, lets hope the team stays hungry with Nebraska coming up in two days, it would be a shame to win two great games to start out the season only to give one back with a loss at home against an inferior team.
Go Hawks!
- 3 second violation...does this rule still exist in college basketball? My goodness Haas just camps out in the lane, spending 10+ seconds with a foot never leaving the lane. Perhaps I don't understand the rule correctly, but he basically committed a 3 second violation on every offensive possession he was in the game.
- one of the better comebacks I've seen, just a steady performance by our seniors and leaders on the team. With that being said, I feel like one of the reasons we fell behind is we tend to settle for long range shots early in shot clocks way too much. I get that Fran has given Jarrod and Pete the ultimate green light, but understanding game situations a bit better might prevent things from getting so lopsided in the first place. Just because you're open from three doesn't mean you have to shoot it...sometimes a dribble or two will create a much easier shot or draw a defender that opens up someone in the lane for a bunny. I wish we didn't settle for so many 3pt shots, especially when things are falling for us
- Fran is doing a great job with playing time distribution on this team. While in a perfect world it would be nice to get some of the young kids minutes, he is trying to do one thing and one thing only and that is win basketball games. He tried to give Ellingson minutes but he just wasn't dialed in at all yesterday so he had no choice but to pull him for the rest of the game. Love the play from Uhl and Baer off the bench, they have been fantastic.
- with an experienced team, a let down wouldn't be expected coming off two big wins, lets hope the team stays hungry with Nebraska coming up in two days, it would be a shame to win two great games to start out the season only to give one back with a loss at home against an inferior team.
Go Hawks!
