Top 3 Key Questions for the coming year
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It's early, but the offensive issues that plagued this team last year, are going to be the same issues this year:
1. The spacing sucked. The majority of the points from Domas and Fox were, once again, within 10 or so feet from the bucket. It's not going to work unless one of those two can consistently stretch the defensive shape of the other team.
2. Huerter is a good player. I see a lot of Bogi in his game, which meant, from the eye test, he initiated the offense in the half court about as much as Fox did. Is he going to be the next guard (Hali, DDV....) that is unable/unwilling to play with Fox? I thought, by now, the consensus is Fox playing off the ball is no bueno. And while Huerter's ball handling is generally a good thing, he's not as much of a ball mover as Hali. His first tendency seems to be to dribble first. This offense needs another connector.
3. The ball moves so much better when Domas is initiating the offense. But for that to work consistently, it would, once again, mean Fox gets less of the ball in his hand, which, as we've seen after 5 years, his efficiency drops off of a cliff when he doesn't have the ball.
Unless this team morphs into a top 5 defensive unit, it's going to have a hard time sniffing the play in (not a bad thing with Wenbayama as a lotto prize). The best way to morph into top 5 defensive unit is to play your best defensive player as a starter.
1. The spacing sucked. The majority of the points from Domas and Fox were, once again, within 10 or so feet from the bucket. It's not going to work unless one of those two can consistently stretch the defensive shape of the other team.
2. Huerter is a good player. I see a lot of Bogi in his game, which meant, from the eye test, he initiated the offense in the half court about as much as Fox did. Is he going to be the next guard (Hali, DDV....) that is unable/unwilling to play with Fox? I thought, by now, the consensus is Fox playing off the ball is no bueno. And while Huerter's ball handling is generally a good thing, he's not as much of a ball mover as Hali. His first tendency seems to be to dribble first. This offense needs another connector.
3. The ball moves so much better when Domas is initiating the offense. But for that to work consistently, it would, once again, mean Fox gets less of the ball in his hand, which, as we've seen after 5 years, his efficiency drops off of a cliff when he doesn't have the ball.
Unless this team morphs into a top 5 defensive unit, it's going to have a hard time sniffing the play in (not a bad thing with Wenbayama as a lotto prize). The best way to morph into top 5 defensive unit is to play your best defensive player as a starter.