Shooting

[bga1]

Everyone discusses FT shooting with this team- and it's a problem. But this is overall a team of players that are not good shooters. Hoff is a great shooter, Devoe is good and Sampson pretty good for a big guy. Beyond that the rest are close range or dunk guys. The young guys have potential as better jump shooters but their minutes are too sporadic to really affect overall team shooting.

I really like this team. With the rebounding and just huge size along with the freak athleticism of Williams and Mbakwe they could go a long ways with what they have. But shooting of all types is a big hurdle.

 

[Son of a Badger]

I'm more upset about the team's lack of perimeter defense. It's almost disgusting. I just expect teams to just fire it up from 3 and make it every time.

 

[bga1]

I'm more upset about the team's lack of perimeter defense. It's almost disgusting. I just expect teams to just fire it up from 3 and make it every time.

The perimeter defense is lousy but fixable with effort and understanding. I think it will get fixed. It's tough to fix poor shooting. Shooters are recruited and seldom developed.

 

[gopherweirdo]

The perimeter defense is lousy but fixable with effort and understanding. I think it will get fixed. It's tough to fix poor shooting. Shooters are recruited and seldom developed.

I just wonder what will happen if B10 teams pack it in on us and force us to shoot from the outside. Blake and Devoe would have to carry the team then??

 

[josh087]

The perimeter defense is lousy but fixable with effort and understanding. I think it will get fixed.

The perimeter issue has a lot to do with the double teams in ths post, which has been discussed at length. However, one point that I have not seen often brought up is that in the non-conference when teams like Akron drop it down to the post, the post player will almost never even put the ball on the floor and attempt a post move. The whole reasoning behind doubling in the post is that you catch the post man off guard as he attempts his post move. The best time to double is right when the post player starts his dribble. Since for the most part the post players we have faced in the NC don't even want to attempt to score against our bigs, and a lot of times never even dribble, the double team is not needed. The mid-major teams are used to settling for threes, so they aren't even looking to score in the post. When the BT season rolls around, guys like JuJuan Johnson, Mike Tisdale, and Jon Leuer are going to look to score in the paint if they get the ball there. By default, this should make our double teams a bit more disruptive.

 

[MN1nAZ]

I just wonder what will happen if B10 teams pack it in on us and force us to shoot from the outside. Blake and Devoe would have to carry the team then??

Even if opponents pack the paint, Trevor, Colt and/or Mo should be able to wear most teams out and spend a good deal of time at the charity stripe.

 

[underground629]

Then we play a lineup of Devoe, Hoffarber, and Hollins and let them fly. Or else we can always have Nolen blow by his man and get fouled or else get it inside to Mbakwe to get fouled.

I just wonder what will happen if B10 teams pack it in on us and force us to shoot from the outside. Blake and Devoe would have to carry the team then??

 

[From the Barn]

Devoe and Blake will be enough to keep most teams from zoning. Heck, few teams will play a zone with only Blake out there.

 

[CentralGopher]

Our defense will improve when A. Al Nolen returns and B. teams don't decide to abandon the inside game in favor of all outside shooting.

 

[JGopher]

The perimeter issue has a lot to do with the double teams in ths post, which has been discussed at length. However, one point that I have not seen often brought up is that in the non-conference when teams like Akron drop it down to the post, the post player will almost never even put the ball on the floor and attempt a post move. The whole reasoning behind doubling in the post is that you catch the post man off guard as he attempts his post move. The best time to double is right when the post player starts his dribble. Since for the most part the post players we have faced in the NC don't even want to attempt to score against our bigs, and a lot of times never even dribble, the double team is not needed. The mid-major teams are used to settling for threes, so they aren't even looking to score in the post. When the BT season rolls around, guys like JuJuan Johnson, Mike Tisdale, and Jon Leuer are going to look to score in the paint if they get the ball there. By default, this should make our double teams a bit more disruptive.

That's it right there. The mid-majors rely on 3's to upset BCS teams in the nonconference schedule. There's no other way to win. The Big Ten is not going to back down on our bigs. Look at Rossiter from Siena- he was a non-factor when he played us, yet is 2nd in the country in rebounding and has 7 double-doubles. That was by design.