That mizzou game means very little to me. It came at a time in the season when we were squarely in hunt for a big 12 title, and focus was on that. Plus I think that was the first full game without Grill.
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Technical foul on the coach doesn’t necessarily equal a win either. Giving up free points when the team is struggling to score doesn’t often help close the gap in final score.
If they made two more FTs they are above their season percentage. FTs were not a major problem yesterday.
I don’t care what anyone says, I don’t want my head coach looking like that idiot with the stare down of the ref.
With past teams, the clones could rest on offense. One driver to the hoop with 4 guys getting ready to shoot a 3. Not the case this year. Everyone is involved on offense, quickly passing the ball around the perimeter. I'm not sure that passing game gets anything done, except tire the team out. We never seem to get an easy shot at the rim.
The Oklahoma loss was pretty simple, 31% shooting just isn’t going to win a game against a top 75 opponent. If we shoot just 38% from the field we win.
10 out of 17 is lackadaisical and shiftless. You can try to excuse it but it's not acceptable
It's a team full of bad/streaky shooters.
It's not surprising they don't shoot free throws well or consistentky.
That was my worry heading into the year: we have streaky, inconsistent shooters. We shot relatively well to start the year, which was awesome. At this point, they've swung the other direction and I think we will end up about where I thought we would at the start of the year. Not a bad season; if we can get back into shooting form by the post-season we could have a fun end of the year.
Kind of an aside, but related to FT shooting. I've always thought that missing the front end of a 1&1 should count as missing 2 FTs in the box score.
This game I felt turned on 2 possessions. Towards the end of the first half we missed a layup, got the rebound, missed 2 put backs, and ended up with Holmes shooting and missing 2 FTs. There are no excuses for not getting points and it felt a bit deflating. Earlyish in the second We were playing great d, forced a tough shot, 3 different players had their hands on the ball but couldn't quite control it (should have been displacement on the rebound) and they hit an open 3. That's a 5 pt swing, plus momentum.
Overall, I don't think effort was the problem. Right now we're a one-pitch pitcher. Once they time up our fastball we don't have a curveball. I'm not sure 'have pride, play harder' is the answer. We need another dimension to our offense.
This game I felt turned on 2 possessions. Towards the end of the first half we missed a layup, got the rebound, missed 2 put backs, and ended up with Holmes shooting and missing 2 FTs. There are no excuses for not getting points and it felt a bit deflating. Earlyish in the second We were playing great d, forced a tough shot, 3 different players had their hands on the ball but couldn't quite control it (should have been displacement on the rebound) and they hit an open 3. That's a 5 pt swing, plus momentum.
Overall, I don't think effort was the problem. Right now we're a one-pitch pitcher. Once they time up our fastball we don't have a curveball. I'm not sure 'have pride, play harder' is the answer. We need another dimension to our offense.
Seems like fair analysis tbh. We were fine offensively through 23 games of the season. Not a top 25 offense by any means but miles better than last year. Our best stretch was definitely during the first 6 games of the Big 12 season but even after that we had a terrific offensive performance against KState at home followed by some good nights against Texas Tech and KU.
Wheels have completely fallen off since the Ok State loss at home though. No one has shot it well outside of Jaz for 1 game, too many turnovers, not generating good looks, etc.
Missing lots of easy shots almost guarantees trouble in a Big 12 game. It is so hard to get easy shots. You have to make a good percentage, especially ones close to the hoop. Everything else is different if we made a half dozen of those easy shots.
And we had plenty of close-in easy shots to get to the 38%. 31% is even worse when you look at the shot chart and see where they were taken from.
There's no excuse for not making free throws. Nothing except poor coaching and/or laziness.
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So...everyone should just...make them?
Do you have any examples of a regular contributer just making all of their free throws in your world?
Do you think these players were lazy and had poor coaching? They missed free throws.
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Lazy or just poor coaching?
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