1. Bad shooting can be contagious, and the whole team currently has it.
2a. Their spacing isn't helping. First of all, anytime they face a zone-based defense, they need to load up the offense with shooters. At all times there need to be at least two 3-point shooters to spread that zone out. By doing so that opens up the inside for Murphy and others. But their spacing is poor. They are not spread far enough outside and the passing is slow, ball movement is continually halted by someone not willing to keep the ball moving. The ball receivers should be in the holes, instead, they are often lined up straight against the defenders. No one is breaking to the open spots with any consistency.
2b. While IW is probably a guy you want to play against straight up man D, when you need outside shooting, he should be on the bench (until he proves he can shoot). Meanwhile, they should be using Gabe, Coffey, McBrayer and Stull as guys who can drain the deep shot.
3. They try too hard to block shots instead of just box out. This is especially true, but not limited to, Omersa. They need to stay on their feet and position their body instead of just getting juked into the air.
4. For his relative size, IW does not move his feet well on D or on O. He stands straight up on D and so his feet are slow, and he gets beat to the hole often. If his knees were bent and he was shuffling, he could start to make some steals. He's rarely up in anyone's grill, and they either go around him or over him.
5. Our guys hold onto the ball too long when driving/shooting. This is particularly true for Coffey and IW. At least the former forces fouls, but he'd finish more if he were shooting on the way up instead of on the way down. IW is jumping out of control and getting blocked.
6. I haven't seen the reasons why, yet, Stull isn't getting more playing time. He at least looks fundamentally sound. They need fundamentally sound players on the floor, because other than Kalscheur and sometimes Murphy/Oturu/Hurt, it's not clear there are any.
7. Instead, it's a squad of "athletes", and I'm getting concerned at the simple mistakes that they make. That said, they are a squad of talented athletes. Whether they put this together or not will determine whether they make a run in the B1G and head into the top 25 or fall off to the bottom. The general talent is there and it's deep; but it's not clear if the pieces fit and if they are optimizing their talents.