Paulsen continues to coach us into ruts. AJ at the 5 hasn’t worked for two seasons but we should totally do it in crunch time. Thank god simpkins yelled to foul dike.
Greg Calixte had a bad game tonight. He looked passive on offense and took himself out of a lot of plays. Fouled out with 2:37 to go in the game. I mean, it's either AJ at the 5 or a freshman. Thought Oduro had some good moves on offense, but didn't really impress on the defensive side of the ball tonight.
Dike didn't go to the line or get fouled after Calixte fouled out. They also only gave one one offensive rebound.
The bigger story was how bad the offense looked. Loyola did a lot of double and triple teaming when the ball got into the post and our players need to do a better job of passing out of those situations and finding the open players.
I will say, also, the defense scheme does feel a little sketchy. The 3 cheating way to the inside to block cutting lanes, but leaving shooters wide open and then we can't seem to stop the pass and we're late closing on a lot of these shots. We also seem to get real flummoxed on ball screens and teams are getting us into weird shapes because of it. Our 1-2-2 zone press doesn't look all that intimidating to me, either.
Can we also at least once, try to pass it to the cutting big man on the pick and roll? I mean, what's the point of a pick and roll if you literally never look to pass it to the big rolling to the basket?
