Andrew Nembhard was a "facilitate the offense" rather than a "be the offense" point guard until his sophomore year at Florida. The transition was obviously because of White. It was painful to watch. The same thing happened with Chiozza in his senior year. Now these guys are back to doing what they are capable of doing, which is to facilitate the offense by moving the damn ball. Nembhard is doing it at Gonzaga. Chiozza is doing it off the bench at Golden State. Throw in Glover. Despite his high scoring, he is a facilitator. If you watch Samford play, Glover gets rid of the ball in a hurry. Not so with Appleby and Mann last year at UF, and to some extent with Appleby again this year. White seems to love point guards who create offense rather than facilitate offense. It works okay (but not great) with James Harden and Luka Doncic. It has not worked well with the Florida point guards.
I always shot better late in the game with tired legs. When fresh I tended to over shoot. Late in the game it was all muscle memory.
Eh, he hasn’t exactly lit it up at Gonzaga either. Very cerebral player but I think his athleticism holds him down. Although playing with more “tempo” can also mental/coaching. My issue with Nembhard was that he literally turned down drive and fast break opportunities. The problem now is sort of the opposite, our guys sometimes driving into 1 on 3 or running bad fast breaks. If forced to choose I’d prefer the guy pushing tempo every time, but really we need a PG that is more effective at finishing, or at least pressuring defenses. We are talking about 1 guy who was probably way too conservative playing, now we have guys who are looser with the ball (mostly because we don’t have a true PG, we are asking guys used to playing as the 2 guard or combo guard to run the point).
