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<blockquote data-quote="lv20gt" data-source="post: 865908" data-attributes="member: 2299"><p>Our bigs are fine, but have been misused and then just benched for little reason. </p><p></p><p>There were, and are, going to be growing pains, but we've seen that from literally every position with a new contributor this year. We've seen our young wings over rotate, and over react to ball fakes allowing penetration fairly consistently, rushing shots, have poor off ball movement, and any number of other things that are common with inexperienced players. For the most part our wings and guards have been allowed to play through their mistakes while our bigs (notably Howard and Saba) get benched instead. </p><p></p><p>People will say that they were ineffective, but there is no reason they should have been the focal point of the offense where we forced the issue to them. It didn't make sense stylistically nor given the experience make up of the team. It was like we didn't want to run Devoe at the point but were afraid of having Smith or Kyle run the show so we went with running our offense through an inexperienced big to try and hide it. That isn't a problem with the big though. IMO that also hindered the development of our two pointguards who need to be able to run the show. </p><p></p><p>Same thing defensively. Oh, they are too slow footed on the perimeter, when our man defense made almost no attempt to switch. Yesterday there were about three straight possessions where their best player came down, had a brush screen if anything, got a switch onto Howard with whoever the other player was (it was Ush in one case) not even trying to stay with. Yeah, that is going to be ineffective because having the opponents best player be able to get whatever match up he wants is a bad strategy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lv20gt, post: 865908, member: 2299"] Our bigs are fine, but have been misused and then just benched for little reason. There were, and are, going to be growing pains, but we've seen that from literally every position with a new contributor this year. We've seen our young wings over rotate, and over react to ball fakes allowing penetration fairly consistently, rushing shots, have poor off ball movement, and any number of other things that are common with inexperienced players. For the most part our wings and guards have been allowed to play through their mistakes while our bigs (notably Howard and Saba) get benched instead. People will say that they were ineffective, but there is no reason they should have been the focal point of the offense where we forced the issue to them. It didn't make sense stylistically nor given the experience make up of the team. It was like we didn't want to run Devoe at the point but were afraid of having Smith or Kyle run the show so we went with running our offense through an inexperienced big to try and hide it. That isn't a problem with the big though. IMO that also hindered the development of our two pointguards who need to be able to run the show. Same thing defensively. Oh, they are too slow footed on the perimeter, when our man defense made almost no attempt to switch. Yesterday there were about three straight possessions where their best player came down, had a brush screen if anything, got a switch onto Howard with whoever the other player was (it was Ush in one case) not even trying to stay with. Yeah, that is going to be ineffective because having the opponents best player be able to get whatever match up he wants is a bad strategy. [/QUOTE]
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