griznative24
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griznative24 said:That's what I would call a bad loss. No one can shoot. Offense is just dribbling around with no passing except on the outside.
AZDoc said:griznative24 said:That's what I would call a bad loss. No one can shoot. Offense is just dribbling around with no passing except on the outside.
That was absolutely pathetic basketball. I’m serious when I say TD needs to turn it around or he may be looking for a job sooner rather than later. Who’s the shooting coach? That’s a serious problem.
grizonbob said:Falls always seems off kilter when he shoots
GrizLA said:grizonbob said:Falls always seems off kilter when he shoots
I don't get the hype on this kid. He should have been red shirted as he is not ready.
cmtgrizzly said:Just got to hotel. What happened? I know, I know we cant shoot. But is there more going on here? These guys have the ability to shoot. Lacking confidence? Lacking on-the-floor leadership which does affect confidence?
Potomac Griz said:cmtgrizzly said:Just got to hotel. What happened? I know, I know we cant shoot. But is there more going on here? These guys have the ability to shoot. Lacking confidence? Lacking on-the-floor leadership which does affect confidence?
Griz struggled big time with Stanford's zone. Got up 50-44 though despite that then absolutely fell apart offensively.
Up 50-44 with about 10 mins to go the Griz went on a 5+ minute scoring drought (where they were 0-7 shooting, 0-4 being from 3, 0-1 from the FT line and had 3 turnovers). Stanford pulled ahead 56-50. Griz got two buckets (one off a miss by Rorie & putback by Akoh, another off a good pass from Rorie to Akoh) within a minute of each other to pull within 2 points 56-54. After that they spent the last 4 minutes of the game without another point going 0-9 shooting with 8 of them being 3s.
The fact that in the last 10 minutes the Griz took 12 threes (out of 18 shots, two being made by Akoh) is a good illustration of how the aggressiveness of our offense disappeared in those 10 minutes. We stopped attacking and started standing around passing around the perimeter and then having to chuck up a three eventually. When the 3s and outside shots aren't falling from our guards our offense grinds to a halt if our guards don't stay aggressive and try to drive to the hole. Teams know they can double Akoh or Fab inside inside and pretty much take them out of the game if the outside shots aren't falling and we're doing a lot of standing around outside the 3 point line.
It was frustrating to watch because in my opinion the Griz should have been able to win this game with even mediocre shooting. Not going to win many games shooting 29% and 16% from 3
The Griz are a better shooting team than this though. If you compare Rorie and Oguine's numbers last year they're way down this year. They'll pull out of this little slump though I'm sure.
Oh well on to the next game. The Griz have a good opportunity to get a nice confidence building win on Sunday then it's back on the road against a very good UCLA team and a good Georgia State team.
Potomac Griz said:cmtgrizzly said:Just got to hotel. What happened? I know, I know we cant shoot. But is there more going on here? These guys have the ability to shoot. Lacking confidence? Lacking on-the-floor leadership which does affect confidence?
Griz struggled big time with Stanford's zone. Got up 50-44 though despite that then absolutely fell apart offensively.
Up 50-44 with about 10 mins to go the Griz went on a 5+ minute scoring drought (where they were 0-7 shooting, 0-4 being from 3, 0-1 from the FT line and had 3 turnovers). Stanford pulled ahead 56-50. Griz got two buckets (one off a miss by Rorie & putback by Akoh, another off a good pass from Rorie to Akoh) within a minute of each other to pull within 2 points 56-54. After that they spent the last 4 minutes of the game without another point going 0-9 shooting with 8 of them being 3s.
The fact that in the last 10 minutes the Griz took 12 threes (out of 18 shots, two being made by Akoh) is a good illustration of how the aggressiveness of our offense disappeared in those 10 minutes. We stopped attacking and started standing around passing around the perimeter and then having to chuck up a three eventually. When the 3s and outside shots aren't falling from our guards our offense grinds to a halt if our guards don't stay aggressive and try to drive to the hole. Teams know they can double Akoh or Fab inside inside and pretty much take them out of the game if the outside shots aren't falling and we're doing a lot of standing around outside the 3 point line.
It was frustrating to watch because in my opinion the Griz should have been able to win this game with even mediocre shooting. Not going to win many games shooting 29% and 16% from 3
The Griz are a better shooting team than this though. If you compare Rorie and Oguine's numbers last year they're way down this year. They'll pull out of this little slump though I'm sure.
Oh well on to the next game. The Griz have a good opportunity to get a nice confidence building win on Sunday then it's back on the road against a very good UCLA team and a good Georgia State team.
Potomac Griz said:GrizLA said:grizonbob said:Falls always seems off kilter when he shoots
I don't get the hype on this kid. He should have been red shirted as he is not ready.
You can't go with only 7 players getting decent minutes.
His shot isn't falling but he's also doing a pretty good job on D and doesn't look lost out there on O like many true freshman do.
I bet by after a few games into the Big Sky season we will have seen some significant improvement from him. Hopefully he'll be able to get some good minutes in the CS-N game. That's a game the Griz really should win and hopefully win it fairly easy.