This soon in White’s first year? Nothing much. Jumping to conclusions about the direction of the program at this early stage would be foolish. It wasn’t until we’d seen several years of plodding offense and squandered talent that most of the fan base grew tired of White. Golden will get the same multi-year opportunity to build his program, and hopefully it will be better and a more interesting brand of basketball.
i agree… especially with “congested paint”. More than a few times, especially w early foul issues, I hoped for an iso for CC on the blocks. We started the half with it… but got away from it, and had him away and facing up much more. That’s fine, and he excels there… but I think he could have put a ton of pressure on Goldin with Colin on the blocks… and, as you said… get that ball inside out.
We didn't make them pay for playing 4 guards...our huge advantage would have been posting up our 4's with CC drawing the only FAU big man away from the basket and dumping the ball down to Felder or Fudge that had a huge advantage on the blocks. Really the Noah to Horford high low is what we should have run. On defense throw in more zone or traps as they just blew by our man to man perimeter defense with ease and also our players tired out quicker at that face pace. Half court slow down game would have served us better against those four guards.
Obviously when a team is as lights out from 3 as FAU was it’s hard to get too bent out of shape, but they really did seem a step quicker all across the board in the back-court. That’s somewhat of an eye opener, hopefully not a sign of things to come as the competition ramps up. Several stretches where we devolved into out of control rec league ball. Unfortunately FAU had the better shooters, so in essence we played into their hands. I think at one point they said FAU had a 30-6 run against us. That. Cannot. Happen.
Well TG lost a lot of goodwill by losing to a 12 point dog at home that UF has never lost to before, but he can get back some of that goodwill with a win at FSU on Friday night.
Yep, 38% from the floor and it wasn't just the high percentage misses. Lofton and others were out of control at times. Soft defense. FAU was quicker and that probably had something to do with so many open 3s. To me it could be coaching and the absence of fighting through the screens. Maybe the analytics said let the threes fly. I can't say. Regardless, their quickness inside the arc didn't go away and it hurt us there as well. On the plus side, 3-pt percentage was good at 50% free throws at 80% is pretty dang good too. Hope it holds up.
Ok..would be great to beat fsu...disappointing loss tonight..but perhaps a learning tool to help show the team they have lots to improve..I think they still need time to gel as a team too
Yes hopefully he'll adjust. Some guys transfer to the SEC and can't cut it. Hopefully none of our most recent.
There are players who are going to hurt us offensively, but stop people on defense. We have the luxury of playing Jones and Lane in a lineup with Castleton, Richard, and Reeves. Jones and Lane would have been more effective in defending their shooters from three.
We forced way too many shots, CC included. Need to work it for better shots with passing. Dribbling too much. Kugel needs to work on FTs.
With a new coaching staff? 3 new starters? 2 starters new to the program and 4 of your top 7 in the rotation new? In the third game? In basketball, when one team gets hot from the arc? Preferably not, but it happens. And I find that a much more talented, established program like Tennessee losing to a worse opponent is hardly better than a team like us when we are in a transition year.
We have one really good player we can count on all game and even he missed a bunch of easy shots around the rim. Need to find two more guys that play at his level. The problem is the other team lets Lane get his hands on the ball, and he is just a bad shot or turnover waiting to happen.
