I was there today and havent rewatched yet but Love definitely played today like he heard you. Totally different on dribble drives.TucsonClip wrote: ↑Sun Dec 15, 2024 2:32 pm One issue I have with Love, is that when he does get downhill and attacks the rim, he has his mind made up before he gets there. He's going to the rim, he's going to get up a shot, even if he's running into traffic and has to toss up something wild in a crowd as with contact.
There's no middle game to drive, read and react or kick.
Regarding Townsend, I never got what the staff saw in him. My problem is, watching 2 full games of these guys (Townsend and ADO) which I did for my scouting reports last spring, it was clear as day they weren't good enough. And one dude (Townsend) was brought in to be a fulcrum of our offense which was absolutely laughable at the time, and grows in hilarity by the game.
Who the hell does the talent evaluation for our transfers? I mean this is Ryan Anderson, Ryan Luther, and Mark Tollefson bad.
Additionally, I think the most alarming thing is we weren't able to recruit anyone who could stick around and play the 4 since Lloyd got here, or develop someone who could. As a result, we end up with Townsend because we had to play Pauli as a 3 last year, and we didn't try to get him ready as a 4 man (or Pauli didn't want to pay the 4 and wanted to handle the ball more), which is an entirely different role.
Pauli or not, everyone saw what Zu did as the 4 man here, and Lloyd couldn't stand having to scheme our defense to cover for him on the other end. You'd think he could find any HS recruit, show him Zus tape in our offense, and say we can feature you here from day 1.
Furthermore, what does Lloyd actually want to run? I was fine with his system the first three years, he just needed more guys who could create off the bounce.
This isn't any of those things. It's a Bradley and Love centric high PNR scheme, but there's no shooting, nobody even tries to hit the roll man, or event a short roll, and our post up threat has no skill level. It certainly isn't anything like what we ran in the first 2 years, even part of last year with Love.
Was told someone on the other site posted that Krivas has an ankle sprain. Not true.