I was pleased with the effort last night. We continue to turn the ball over far too much, and if we don’t value the basketball more in the weeks ahead we’re going to drop some games against lesser competition. For whatever reason, we often choose to make the harder pass instead of the easy one and throw the ball away. I think the best example was Cade coming down with a rebound last, seeing Chaz a few feet away from him, and then deciding to throw it across the court to ZZ and it goes out of bounds.
I like the balance we showed on offense last night, but I’m still a bit concerned about the overall effectiveness of the offense. I think Chaz will figure it out, but we have too many guys being passive on offense. We need to bottle up some of Dubar’s swagger and give it to everyone else.
Igor is too skilled to be passing up some of the open 3’s he is getting at the top of the key. He made his very first 3 of the game early in the 1st half and then didn’t shoot another 3 the rest of the game. He turned down several fairly open shots. And if Machack is really so hurt that he can’t be an effective perimeter shooter, than maybe we need to sit him to get healthy. We’re playing 4 on 5 when he’s out there and it’s making the rest of the offense struggle at times because they are sagging off him and clogging the paint making it impossible to attack the rim.
All of these are things we can improve upon thankfully, but we need to get healthy. Mashack is hurt and Cade is clearly not as effective with that shoulder injury. He missed a dunk last night because of the shoulder.
