We’re a Good Team

That Chinyelu dunk from Richard’s pass was something else too, I thought he was going to rip off the rim

 

Yes guys 6’9 now play the wing, or even guards. Ben Simmons is a 6’10 point guard for example. But then again, Horford has been playing center in now his 18th year at 6’9. Draymond Green at 6’9. Haslem played the post at 6’8. Clearly you have to be a certain type of badass to play as long as they have at their heights, and bring a lot of other qualities and skills to the game.

 

Yeah I'd rather have him more animated and supportive of his teammates, creating energy, than glum and pissed off that he's not playing this year. I think Martin is just a no-nonsense kind of guy, but probably also appreciates Handlogten's enthusiasm and may have had a laugh about it after. But during game time Martin is all business, and that's fantastic.

 

Yes some guys are just built to play in the low post and have that alpha dog big man quality, even if they're a little short (not undersized) for the position

 

on a separate note, did you run track at UF?

 

Yes I think he might be a streaky shooting team, as are most college teams, but I think where our success will hopefully come from is our defense, especially rebounding, and limiting 2nd chance points. That and hopefully limiting our turnovers. In other words, increase our # of possessions while decreasing theirs. We did this with great offensive rebounding last year. We still need to crash the boards on the offensive end but we definitely need to tighten up on the defensive end. That and don't let guards blow by us like last year.

If we can win the # of possessions battle, even if our 3pt shooting isn't great, we have plenty of guys that can score at the rim. That said, we also need to hit our FTs. We have lots of guys that can draw a lot of fouls. Guys like Chinyelu and Sam are going to need to make their FTs. Condo needs to be consistent at the line too, he's going to get fouled a lot. Might be the differences between close wins and losses. Thank god we offensively gifted guards that can shoot FTs very well. Will help us in late game situations.

 

precisely. And yes I actually understood what you said haha. That is the formula. I think JJ Redick with the Lakers is trying to employ the same formula. He said "I'm going to use math", and the formula makes sense. It simply allows you to miss a lot of shots & still win, because you're generating a lot more shot attempts than the other team