Where are we? We are on the losing side of the proverbial chess match. As the season goes on our opponents have a lot of information to analyze and can figure us out. We have been playing at a pretty high level for most of the year, and mostly due to our new piece in Wieskamp. He is a very very good player and a team has to game plan for him. However, he has been starting all year, so by this time of the year other coaches know what we are. We haven't done anything new since we started going zone, and being since we have some fundamental flaws that have been talked about at nauseum on this board and others, opponents are exploiting that.
Its the same way with any sport. Why do the Patriots do so well in the NFL? Because they change, morph, and scheme to exploit their opponent. Its like a boxer you can never get a clean shot on. Opponents at college level and above are just too good and too smart to let you do the same thing over and over again. That is what is going on here. Look at the teams that are playing well at the end of the season. Penn St, Maryland, Illinois, Rutgers, etc., all teams that have a lot of talent and had a big ceiling because they just played so bad at the beginning of the season.
We don't have a high ceiling play with this team this way. We can't be slow and not have a player to beat someone off the dribble and try to out score the opponent and not play defense. No way will that work. As my son says about Clash Royale, the meta has changed. We don't have anyone new that we haven't seen coming off the bench, so we have to work with what we have.
For me, the two most athletic players on the wing that can break down a defense are Moss and Dailey. Dailey impressed me with some moves against OSU, and with consistency he could help us out a lot. Moss is a really really good shooter, but I don't know if don't need him to go to hole more. The length of those two if they are engaged on defense can help us too. So I would like to see us in a matchup zone with Moss, Dailey, Wieskamp/Baer, Cook/Garza/Kriener, and Jbo. Conner is a liability because he cant drive or shoot, and Dailey should get his minutes. That would give us a couple of guys who could beat man to man with a big inside to finish and Jbo there for the kickout. Moss is the key to this team though because he is the only one who can do both.
I dont know, that is my armchair coaching.
