fast, quick, spread the floor, don't clog up the lane, can press, active, can switch man to man
yes, a bit vulnerable inside, so what, remember 2022?
just confounding IMO, my bet is this line-up has played all of about 10 minutes if that all year.
should be out there situationally 3 or 4 minutes each half.
breaking 'myths' again
1) we don't have good 3 pt shooters. WRONG. !!! Tsohonis, Silva, Thompson, Jones AJ last year. all high 37/38% ish shooters before coming to long beach or in case of Jones/AJ last year. . until this year a 3 pt shooting train wreck.!
we don't shoot the 3 well, because we don't get enough open looks, and guys would take some horrid ones especially earlier in the season
can guarantee Lewis lights it up in practice, he's rushed in games.
2) We don't have a proven pt guard. WRONG AGAIN! Thompson may not be Caspar, but the guys was a 5 assist, 2:1 TO ratio, 40% shooting proven pt guard before coming to thd Beach
get this, he's started...... 3 games!!! lol. one of those he lit up SB. some coaching decision there! notice vs. Bakersfield all his drives were mostly left side with no space in the middle left for him.
3) Monson simply has not been able to teach and adapt this team for it's talents. He's uber mind-set of pound inside has left LT a shell of a player. Yeah, we need some inside plays for him, but the flow is to try to cram it inside with teh lane clogged, or pinch post AT or Tsohonis with the lane already clogged. Our entire offense is predictated on clogging the lane, no wonder all year Messiah has been a footnote, lol no wonder LT has struggled. Beach swings teh ball around to, get this, post up up LT, after failing to post up LT. jeez. no wonder we don't get open 3s, LT's not the greatest passer, and he's the first option.
one of the biggest head-scratchers of this year was Monson's inability to recognize what the offense needed to be for Thompson, and the limitations of Silva. it's not a recruiting failure for both. It's an abject failure to recognize what to do with who you recruited, and inability to maximize what they can do. they've struggled like crazy, and both were proven 3 pt % shooters! nuts
defense. yikes. this love affair with 'playing uptempo' is just more Monson formula speak. play and develop solid defense first, then uptempo can come. instead, it contributed to 3 pt jack-ups on offense. from game one, Monson never developed decent man defense. Guys simply give too much space on their off ball guys, and we don't rotate either after trapping man or zone. all year. and that's with a team with length that is now routinely being faked into the proverbial popcorn popper as the run out to the arc.
it's been just a terrible coaching/teaching job this year, horrific, especicially with all the experience and returnees.
nothing to do with recruiting. Monson has totally screwed this year up with his fixation and fixated decisions (#1 was the continued forcing of Silva as a 25 minute guy starting), and he doesn't know how to fix it, is pretty obvious.
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