jghoya01
Century (over 100 posts)
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Post by jghoya01 on Mar 13, 2006 17:49:31 GMT -5
I'm not sure I think this is a personality thing at all. I dare say that part of the problem is how we are coached. With an offense that moves the ball so much and spreads out the points, we do not have a true leader or scorer. I think Jeff could be that guy, and I would have put the ball in Bowman's hands at the end of the Cuse game. We are not coached to create our own shots, and that is the difference in my mind.
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Highsmith
Golden Hoya (over 1000 posts)
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Post by Highsmith on Mar 13, 2006 18:01:15 GMT -5
I'm not sure I think this is a personality thing at all. I dare say that part of the problem is how we are coached. With an offense that moves the ball so much and spreads out the points, we do not have a true leader or scorer. I think Jeff could be that guy, and I would have put the ball in Bowman's hands at the end of the Cuse game. We are not coached to create our own shots, and that is the difference in my mind. I disagree- I see our players create shots. Jeff, Brandon, Ashanti, JW and even Roy occasionally all have shown the ability to create their own shots. However, they have also shown a level of trepidation in doing so at "big times" in games. When things are working well and we are comfortable and confident, our players do fine. When we start to lose leads or get to the end of the shot clock or get down to crunch time in a game, that is where the players that have the ability to make their own shots seem to step back and wait for someone else to do it. I don't think our players are coached not to create their own shots, but they are coached to be unselfish and share the ball. In the times mentioned above, maybe the guys fall back on that too much instead of playing with a balance......which is how they do play when they are at their best. Once we get one or two "onion guys", I think we will take a big step up. None of this is a slam or slight against our current players- the "onion factor" is a rare quality that many teams don't have. We have a lot of great things with the players we have now and there is still time for someone to step up in the tournament and be that guy.....this has been a time for guys to take that next step on a number of occasions (Antonio McDyess always stands out to me in that regard) and we have some guys that could do it.....
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