flow wrote:Snakebites wrote:whitehops wrote:I'll be honest - I didn't want either thompson twin and was 100% in on jarace walker. we presumably have our lead and secondary ball handlers going forward with cade and ivey so we needed someone who could excel off-ball, which ausar had to do playing next to amen.
ausar has a lot of things to improve on but he seems like a smart guy, he's obviously athletic and hopefully becomes what weaver saw in him. it sounds like weaver really liked his defensive potential so i'm surprised he didn't go with walker but i take that as him believing in stewart at the 4 and then sliding ausar in at the 3.
he seems to have a high bball iq so it will be pretty cool when the starting lineup (assuming stewart starts over bojan) that the entire starting lineup will have a 7'0+ wingspan besides ivey at 6'9, which is still really good for a guard.
The lack of shooting from the group still makes me nervous. We were an abysmal outside shooting team last year why I don’t see Ausar fixing that. He wasn’t as bad as his brother, but was an undeniably poor shooter from the outside at 30 percent.
But Weaver has to be assuming our guards figure their shots out. Because we’re probably dammed either way if they don’t.
I wish I shared his belief in Stewart as a starting 4.
As for shooting, we still have Bojan, we picked up shooting last night in Sasser, and we still have free agency.
Also, let's not forget that we have a new coach. And Monty's offense doesn't put the premium on 3-point shooting that Casey did.
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Any good offense needs more three pointers than Cade/Ivey/Ausar would give us without internal improvement, even with Bojan (though it’s unclear if he starts with this group).
