23-24 Season

38 points at this point is pretty pizz poor.

 

I haven’t noticed #1 as much, but you’re definitely more attuned to hoops.

#2 has been extremely obvious all season. Aidoo can abuse weaker posts but is soft against anyone who will bang (or who can contest his height). Awaka has a higher ceiling but is inconsistent. We need to hope we don’t face a dominant big.

#3 has kinda been the issue since Grant Williams left, but Knecht and Zeigler are reasonably consistent, and we have a revolving door of potential #3 and #4 scoring options who sometimes go off. This could still bite us at some point, but it’s not something where I feel like “one bad matchup and we’re screwed” like #2

 

I don’t 100% agree with #1. It happens sometimes. Guard defense is usually pretty good imo. Gainey & Knecht are suspect especially when together.

100% agree about Aidoo.

we’ve had some big wins without Knecht going off but we need production from someone besides ZZ. At this point I’m convinced it won’t come from #25

 

Great, they're going to tease us a bit, like the Carolina game.

The fight is nice, though. I appreciate not packing it in.

 

Vescovi is just so bad shooting now, that it is a liability. And other teams know it.

 

6/29 from 3

 

Teams which spread us out have been able to take us off the dribble with regularity. Then, they kill us down low with our weak presence on the interior (I really wish Estrella had developed more this year. Or, we trusted him more, whatever.).

 

Before today, Santi was 36.3% (20/55) from 3 since Kentucky at Rupp. He's shot reasonably well, though not that frequently.

 

I don’t know what happened to him, but it would be really great if it would suddenly un-happen

 

Nobody’s done it enough that we don’t still have really good defensive numbers.

 

Is Estrella is a freshman?

 

Yes

 

We’ve missed some 3s by a mile

 

This feels so different.

 

23-2 when shooting at least 29% from deep.

1-6 when shooting less than 29%

 

I'm about at the point if I were an opposing coach I would run a triangle 2 on Knecht and ZZ and then watch the other three try to figure out what to do.

 

lol just have to laugh when Knecht is doing that

 

I am sure some teams will do this, or something similar.

 

We don’t have to shoot well. We have to not shoot like total trash.

 

Saved our worst performance for the year for the opening game of the SEC tournament.