IndianaZonaFan wrote: ↑Wed Jun 28, 2023 11:17 am
Looked like coaching. Everyone was playing 1 on 1. Kylan got a good amount of his shots blocked inside by a help defender and nobody else moving..just standing around on perimeter.
This US team is borderline unwatchable. Team-centric players are going to struggle in this tournament (see Boswell and Williams) because there is literally no offense being run. The players all seem to want to iso every single time down the floor. Honestly, if there have been more than a handful of possessions, in this entire tournament, that had more than 3 passes on the offensive end, I would be astounded. And to compound things, the players chosen for this team aren’t exactly snipers. The scoring droughts have been glaring! Poor shooting + poor ball movement = extremely ugly basketball. I have a very hard time seeing this team make it beyond the semifinals. Boyle has to be one of the worst offensive tacticians that I have ever seen. Awful to have such a mediocre coach representing our great country!
On the flip side, watch the Serbian team, with Borovicanin, and you see a team that is very connected. They aren’t very athletic, but they are constantly moving, and mixing drives to the basket with kick outs to the three point line. Their lack of athleticism may catch up with them at some point, but it would not shock me at all if they cut down the nets, due to their lack of scoring droughts, and their intelligent, active, team-oriented way of playing the game.