We need someone to pick up the scoring slack AB provided late last year..
Actually, NOT.
We need a Team that creates scoring opportunities for multiple players. That is infinitely more dangerous. Spreading the ball around in the scheme Groce has put together creates multiple attack points from Devaughn running the floor and getting the ooop while TJ, Ricardo, Nick and DJ benefit from Tommy opening up the middle of the floor by being a constant threat. Ivo, Reg and now Ethan (nice interior passing Mr Sayles) following to the bucket with their hands up or getting the isolation off the quick perimeter passing over to the opposite side provides more than ample scoring opportunities to replace what Bassett brought to the table. The better this Bobcat team executes the pro style up tempo offense the less our Soph Point Guard will need to put things on his back and the more effective he will be. If it falls to our Point Gurad taking over each game we will be more like last year's team in the mid season and less like the
team with specific skill sets Coach went out and recruited to place around what he inherited.
Groce has assembled the peices and put the system together to compliment each other. Each has roles they need to step into. From what I have observed that is still very rough. My favorite quote pre board meltdown was the AM radio quote about young teams fading in and out as you drive through the night. This is a young and very inexperienced team Freeman, Washington and Sayles will need to step up and guide. DJ is the floor general that makes it go. Patience with those frosh who have never seen the lights and big city as well as the Sophs who are just stepping into their roles will be paramount. Accepting nothing less than excellent exection and bringing guys into the system with the teaching skills Groce honed in the classroom will go much further than one guy putting us on his back and living or dying with the results.