catch20two wrote:yosemiteben wrote:catch20two wrote:Lol. Well there goes your answer and you don't have to massage it. Those other years we had Biz.
The numbers were starters only (i.e., without Biz except for a small portion of 2014-15 season).
There's nothing to massage. Those stats were without Biz on the floor.
Fact still remains that we're giving up a lot of 3pt attempts because our guard's are sinking in more to help Cody. We didn't have the sink that much in with Fat Al because he held his own but didn't contest anything. But Cody is smallish for a C so that's what we've been doing to compensate for it. I said it earlier in the year and I'm saying it now with a bigger sample size. Touché.
I think you're confusing cause with effect. It's not exactly them "sinking in to help". It's the way we play with Cody. This is a usual, everyday possession with the starters.
There isn't anything wrong with Zeller meeting the ball handler so high. His mobility allows us to put some pressure on the offense, not just lay back in a conservative scheme where Al drops back and hopes for the best.
I like putting pressure on the rim runner and making him catch the ball with a wing already in his face. If you watch such possessions closely, opposing bigs frequently get into trouble when catching the ball and having to put it on the floor/attempt a lay-up around Batum/Lee/Kemba. If the guard (in this case Reggie Jackson) swings the ball, our wings are good enough to close out on and return home on the recipient (in this case it could have been Morris) while the ball is in the air.
It would be even better if we had MKG on the court, the expert weak-side fly-in wing.
