Not part of the charm are his ballhandling skills. Lost us one game by dribbling off his foot, had three dribbling related TOs yesterday. I'd like to see someone else bring up the ball against the press.
What? You don't enjoy a PG who can't beat anybody above D2 off the dribble and commits 6 turnovers, 1 in a crucial spot with 30 seconds left of a 1 possession game? Blasphemy. At least he's a defensive stopper.
First time my brother has seen this team in person this year and he had these comments.
1) How do we have NOBODY that can rebound? If I were Boals, we'd be doing block out drills for about 8 hours straight until they figure it out.
2) Do we have any other offensive play besides dribble around, get trapped, hoist up a 3 and have everybody stand around and watch it? That must be play #1. Maybe try play #2, where we feed the post and swing the ball, every once in awhile.
3) We won that game at the free throw line. Good thing Kent was terrible there.
4) Good thing VonCameron Davis was hobbled with his ankle and on the bench with foul trouble basically the entire first half.
Side note, my own observations. AJ Brown carried us offensively in the first half. Sure would be nice if he put 2 halves like that together and used this opportunity without Clayton to just become "the man" we all think he could be. He also had 4 turnovers (bad), but 4 steals (great!)....but 1 rebound and 0 assists (typical). He's gotta find ways to rebound and contribute beyond scoring. He's too athletic and too good to be so one dimensional.
We lose that game by double digits if not for Vic Searls. I'm perfectly comfortable with him starting, and while he's not All-MAC, our offense just runs so much more efficiently when he's getting touches. He's either scoring on the block, or drawing fouls, or forcing the D to trap/move and allows for passing lanes for open shots. He only had 1 TO last night. Good job big fella.
Ajay Sheldon is just flat out in a shooting slump. Down to 30% now on the season and trending south quickly. He was scrappy and important on the D side though. Perfect example of someone playing hard, but not playing well. He HAS to start hitting 3s for us to win games moving forward, because neither Reef nor Pavs is a real threat from out there, and we're going to have to out-shoot teams if we're going to get out-rebounded 45-25 every night.
Last Edited: 1/25/2025 12:47:31 PM by GraffZ06