Chip Bayers
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11-25-22 10:43 PM - Post#347085
In response to palestra38
MLL came off the bench at the same time as non-starter Dingle and got some decent run in the first half. He ended up splitting the largest share of minutes at the 5 for the game with Spinoso.
One of my takeaways about his offensive game is that he and all the post guys just aren’t being set up enough for easy scoring opportunities by the guards, in part because we don’t seem to have anyone with true PG passing skills in the rotation. Dingle and Slajchert haven’t shown the greatest ability to feed a guy in the low post from the perimeter in a way that puts the big in scoring position, or when they penetrate an ability or willingness to dump the ball to a big on the weak side for the easy layup or dunk when the D collapses on them. That said, they’re both putting up better assist rates so far than they did last year.
I gather McMullen is the most likely candidate but we haven’t seen enough of him to know if he can fill that role. He did get the start today with Dingle coming off the bench, so will be interesting to see if that experiment continues, with him at the 1 and either Dingle or Slajchert at the 2 with the other scorer subbing in.
Its hard to play the three of them together because it makes them so small on the perimeter, especially with none of them exactly showing themselves to be a standout defensively (again, maybe that’s something McMullen could be but we haven’t seen enough to know).
Interesting to note that we haven’t had a guard lead the team in assist rate since Foreman graduated. Brodeur did his last two years, and then Mosh did last year and again early this year.
Edited by Chip Bayers on 11-25-22 10:50 PM. Reason for edit: No reason given.
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