palestra38
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Reg: 11-21-04
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01-20-22 03:05 PM - Post#333804
In response to penn nation
That's on the coach, isn't it?
But let's not get too far ahead on this. First priority is not letting ourselves lose on the boards as we did with Columbia. You cannot outplay a team but allow it 20 more rebounds, leading to 15 more free throws.
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SomeGuy
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Posts: 6413
Reg: 11-22-04
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01-20-22 04:42 PM - Post#333808
In response to penn nation
The offense looks better and flows better when we get more cutters. We didn’t get those against Princeton. That may be by design. We may have decided that if they were going to guard the 3 point line, we would make them stay out there and guard it by having 4 guys stand around out there. And then just try to post up, and only kick it if someone comes to help. But that’s just a guess. Even if your goal is to stay out of the way of the guy operating inside, you still can run a cutter at the basket.
Monroe does this well. So does Dingle. If they are taking away other stuff Jordan does, let’s get him diving to the basket without the ball.
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Penndemonium
PhD Student
Posts: 1900
Reg: 11-29-04
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01-20-22 04:53 PM - Post#333810
In response to andybech
This is an interesting point. In past seasons, we got open 3 pointers and weren't great at making them. Now we have some decent shooters (I think), but we are either worse in creating open shots or are being defended more actively at the three point line. I still think the issue is that our ball movement is slow.
Those previous teams did a much better job of finding open shooters (AJ or Dev primarily) though the shooters probably were not as good as the ones on this team.
Princeton largely guarded the 3 very well. But we also saw Dingle driving into double teams. So somebody had to be open. Mosh is also not as good a high post passer as AJ. Clearly this team can do better on offense. Jonah Charles is as good a 3-point shooter as they have had at Penn, but he is one dimensional and needs his teammates to get him open and find him.
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penn nation
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Reg: 12-02-04
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01-20-22 05:58 PM - Post#333818
In response to Penndemonium
This is an interesting point. In past seasons, we got open 3 pointers and weren't great at making them. Now we have some decent shooters (I think), but we are either worse in creating open shots or are being defended more actively at the three point line. I still think the issue is that our ball movement is slow.
At least in the Princeton game, they were definitely being defended very actively at the 3 point line. But that said, even Dingle could not free himself up one on one from deep once he had the ball by the arc. Everyone was trying to do it by themselves, little off the ball movement by other players.
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