Our guards don't do a great job of a) shooting the ball, b) moving the ball, or c) penetrating to put pressure on the defense.
That makes everything else we want to do on offense more difficult.
Exum even though he wasn't a shooter, was a great ball mover who always put pressure on the defense with his threat to get to the rim. He had some gravity. Trey Burke is a limited shooter/scorer and mediocre passer/ball mover. Raul hasn't figured out how to score, and until he does it's hard to have him on the court.
We ask Hayward, Hood, Ingles and Burks to be initiators to compensate for our guards, and they're not bad at it considering that they're really wings, but they're not exactly game-changing all stars either. They've been streaky.
Our bigs are big, a bit slow and not great passers. Rudy can pass the ball on certain deliveries, but our bigs are ball stoppers for the most part with limitations as scorers.
So coaches are trying to figure out how to piece together enough offense to stay competitive. It's difficult. We still don't have the kind of player you can build an offense around.
That makes everything else we want to do on offense more difficult.
Exum even though he wasn't a shooter, was a great ball mover who always put pressure on the defense with his threat to get to the rim. He had some gravity. Trey Burke is a limited shooter/scorer and mediocre passer/ball mover. Raul hasn't figured out how to score, and until he does it's hard to have him on the court.
We ask Hayward, Hood, Ingles and Burks to be initiators to compensate for our guards, and they're not bad at it considering that they're really wings, but they're not exactly game-changing all stars either. They've been streaky.
Our bigs are big, a bit slow and not great passers. Rudy can pass the ball on certain deliveries, but our bigs are ball stoppers for the most part with limitations as scorers.
So coaches are trying to figure out how to piece together enough offense to stay competitive. It's difficult. We still don't have the kind of player you can build an offense around.