Obviously, it's a subjective topic. But Hadaway is second on the team in scoring (13.2 before today), first in rebounding (7.5), and fourth in assists (2.1).

Product of the stand and watch offense. Pavs is the only person getting to the bucket and getting fouled. Nobody slashing. Nobody moving. Just catch and launch 3's. Hadaway is watching too much AJC tape, but he's still improved his scoring from last season. He was my dark horse for MAC POY, and we're certainly nowhere near that at the moment, but he's our second best player and without him or Jack this is a 2 win team.

This has long been my critique of Boals, whom I will defend all day, but this offense sucks. He doesn't adapt to the personnel. The purposeful 'let them create' only works when you have people creating. Like someone else said - we have a TON of shooters, and no makers. This clunky, watch the Jack show offense is atrocious. Part of the reason I keep beating the table for Kuany and Evans. I want Kuany running around, slashing, moving, causing movement, disrupting the defense. Evans needs to be camping out in the paint and let Hadaway do his thing and not have to be the #1 rebounder every night. If JJ keeps improving, I think we'll look a lot different, but right now Jack is 1A, 1B and 1C. There is no secondary leader.

Product of the stand and watch offense. Pavs is the only person getting to the bucket and getting fouled. Nobody slashing. Nobody moving. Just catch and launch 3's. Hadaway is watching too much AJC tape, but he's still improved his scoring from last season. [/QUOTE]For what it's worth, I don't think Hadaway has actually improved his scoring. He's scoring more, but far less efficiently. He's basically just become a volume shooter, and I think he's pretty much the worst offender of the stand around and watch offense. He's taking far too many bad shots -- meaning shots he doesn't make. 40% of his shots are from three, and he's straight up bad from there. He doesn't get to the rim enough, and barely gets to the line. His free throw rate (i.e. the rate he gets to the line) is way down from last year, and it wasn't good last year.

That additional shooting volume isn't a good use of possessions.


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This has long been my critique of Boals, whom I will defend all day, but this offense sucks. He doesn't adapt to the personnel. The purposeful 'let them create' only works when you have people creating. Like someone else said - we have a TON of shooters, and no makers. This clunky, watch the Jack show offense is atrocious. Part of the reason I keep beating the table for Kuany and Evans. I want Kuany running around, slashing, moving, causing movement, disrupting the defense. Evans needs to be camping out in the paint and let Hadaway do his thing and not have to be the #1 rebounder every night. If JJ keeps improving, I think we'll look a lot different, but right now Jack is 1A, 1B and 1C. There is no secondary leader.

He's scored 7 points more than Simmons, but taken 35 more shots than Simmons. And Hadaway basically never gets to the line

I know Boals is your guy, but where do you see any improvement coming from if what you've listed off here is all a byproduct of his coaching and program building? He's not changing his ways at this point.


[/QUOTE]That's absolutely my biggest knock.

And I bet if you saw him out and asked him, to a man he'd give you an honest answer.

Likely a mix of overconfidence in his system, lack of confidence in his players to execute. So which one wins out? His system. Forcing round pegs into square holes, and not allowing some triangles to get enough game minutes to figure it out.

Unfortunately, in this new era you just don't know what you have until its here. And these days, dudes are showing up in summer forced into leadership roles because they're seniors, for a team to play games in a few weeks. In isolation, we constantly have one of the top recruiting classes in the MAC. As a team... they're not gelling. They dont play well together. They don't seem to trust each other on offense or defense. Everyone just wants to jack up their shots to get their own stats and hopefully that is enough to stay on the floor.

For Boals, I think some guys just get to a point where they have previous success in System ABC and they fixate on it, especially when you're struggling. 'We can do it again. We can be that again. We can have that success with that offense. I've seen it. ABC works.' Then you get a bunch of random pieces in and you try to force System ABC on them because you know it works - and don't have the confidence to install System XYZ, because if it (also) fails then you're like SEE, I shouldn't have spent all that time on the new system. Self-fulfilling fail prophecy.

Every year I have the same critique about the offense. It's just not a good MAC offense. It's not good for what we have. We have no identity. Are we fast-paced? No. Are we running up and down trying to beat teams with our athleticism? No. Are we trying to make plays and get to the line? No. Are we a 3-point shooting team? Unfortunately, yes. But we suck at it. Are we a rebounding, tough defense team? Lol no. What's our identity? What kind of team are we? It's a high school all-star team and they play like it. I bet they'd win a Gus Macker 3-on-3. Unfortunately, we have to play team basketball and it's not team basketball.

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If Evans is on this team next year, then Boals just needs to turn in the keys to his office now.

This is my biggest critique of Breath. While I don't expect him to score a basket every time he's fouled, it would be nice if he did every so often. I could be wrong, and I'm not going to go through the play-by-play of every game he's played this year, but I don't believe he's done this until the second half of Tuesday's game at CMU. This is especially disappointing when the best you can expect him to do at the line is make 1 of 2 foul shots. And while it's not an official turnover, I consider it a turnover when a player is fouled and misses both free throw attempts.