Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame
1/20/2024 3:53 PM
This and roster building strategy around a brand of basketball we want to deploy. I was game for Shereef and Ike additions, under the impression we were going to run and play small ball. We saw that once against Troy.
It now just looks like our portal approach is spray and pray to see which P6 transfers will come to Ohio. I’m not picking on Shereef, but did we really need a 6’1 guard who doesn’t facilitate and can’t hit the 3? We didn’t address any weaknesses with him. This is where I rely on the staff to know if this type of addition makes sense or not.
Agree completely on all of this. The approach just feels pretty arbitrary and it's hard to see the vision. We've heard the staff and Boals talk about "positionless basketball" -- and I'm all for that style if you have the personnel. But I don't think we've put enough of those guys together.
To play that way, you need length, guys who can switch on D and guard basically any position, and who don't necessarily need the ball in their hands to be effective on offense. You see a few guys on the roster who fit that mold -- EJ4, Clayton, AJB, Hadaway (to an extent) -- and you see how the staff might've seen that in Cornish, too. You also get the appeal of the big 6'5 guard we signed from Columbus for next year, and the big from Kentucky who seems more mobile than most bigs.
But then the rest of the roster is small-ish guards who need the ball in their hands like Shareef, Ajay, Hunter, and Miles Brown. And bigs like Wiz and IJ who don't seem to fit the vision.