Hopefully, you can all open the attached article. Question: Could Nembhard have done the same thing at UF if UF ran the Gonzaga offense.Gonzaga film room: How Andrew Nembhard is the secret sauce to the Zags' recent run of offensive dominance
Very good player playing with good players around him. Got to have the players, wish he stayed. I think he's a first Rd pick. Yes think he would have done well at Fl in that offence. Only read to where you have to join to go on
I think that AN is the best point guard in college right now barely edging out Ques Glover and Niels Lane.
Perhaps, but that was a different Nembhard - he was nowhere near where he is as a player now and he was pretty darn good (very talented) when he was a Gator. He's also playing for one of the best coaches in the nation and that's no knock on CMW.
He was forced to play a different game at UF. He was a ball dominant, dribble drive player in his sophomore year at UF. That didn't suit his game, and it's almost certainly why he left. AN is now back to playing the way he played at Montverde. Gonzaga takes about 13 seconds per possession on offense, which is the fastest in the country, and it's AN who initiates the action. AN dribbled around that much by himself at UF. I don't believe that he liked doing it.
Interesting thought. The knock on AN at UF was that he was too slow and deliberate. It was a foolish critique imo.
Watched him last night! Love the new "Cap/hat" he wears, Zags colors. Guy is terrific, at every level, my thought was he left because we signed Trey.
Why would he leave because of Trey? He played with a great guard last season who is already in the NBA.
Good question. I don’t think that the offense has a consistent identity. In Chiozza’s senior year, he was a ball dominant point guard who was backing his defender down into the paint while trying to collapse the defense to find an open shooter. We saw the same thing with Nembhard in his sophomore year, but not his freshman year, if I recall correctly. That might have been because the offense was so bad in Nembhard’s freshman year that White decided to go in a different direction the following year.
tampa, I do not know, my assumption was that by UF signing Trey, and Andrew getting "heat", on Social media about "slow-play" may have been influencing factors. Truly I do not know why, just me guessing.
I don’t know either, but when I watched Montverde a few times in AN’s senior year, he was playing the exact same way he plays now for Gonzaga. In other words, he was a facilitator on a team that included RJ Barrett and several other great players that are now in the NBA. That roster, although they were kids, would grow into more talented players than currently play for Gonzaga. My guess is that AN thought that he could continue to play the same way at UF. That didn’t happen, so he found a school that had the type of offense that he wanted, and he transferred there. As an aside, AN’s kid brother and former Gator commit, Ryan Nembhard, is the starting point guard for Creighton and might be the front runner for freshman of the year in the Big East.
He was never allowed to just run the offense without interference...there were times when they played up and down and AN had more lattituide.... usually early in the season like the Duke game...but as the season wore on and the SEC would start up MW would slow them down and signal in the play which frustrated AN.
