Still comes down to Shooters

[ibahawkeye]

Can't win with 3 non shooters on the floor... Early in the year Clemmons shot well and Pete and Uthoff were so hot it seemed like we had the shooters finally. But were back to reality.

Compile that with teams daring both Peter and Uthoff to put it on the floor as you know help will be there sagging off from Mike and Clommons defenders. Also Uthoff and Petes biggest weakness is their handling so that makes it more difficult for them.

These are the adjustments were seeing along with lack of bench play (except tonight).

 

[HiltonHeadHawk]

Agree. The only reason we came back and why we were deadly early on was Baer and Uhl being able to extend defenses and leave openings for Jok/Uthoff. When you have Baer Uthoff Jok Uhl on the court with a PG it is a much better O. Our comeback tonight was pretty much because we spread the floor with Baer.

I think Fran tightened up the bench about mid season and it was a mistake.

 

[99hawks]

Couldn't agree more with this thread. The slide started when Fran decided to try to run the starters for 40 minutes each and everyone started looking for just two guys to shoot the ball.

Besides shooters we need guys who will play tighter D too and foul when needed. This team could be good again.

 

[Hawkalum2002]

Couldn't agree more with this thread. The slide started when Fran decided to try to run the starters for 40 minutes each and everyone started looking for just two guys to shoot the ball.

Besides shooters we need guys who will play tighter D too and foul when needed. This team could be good again.

Actually, the slide started when we won a few games handily and gave the bench the last ten minutes of the game a few times in a row. It's weird how that happened because the starters appeared to get tired legs in the aftermath even though they'd played less minutes. Ideally they should've been fresh for when we needed 40 minutes. It reminds me of a baseball team clinching the playoffs early, so sitting guys the last week before the playoffs and they get out of sync.

 

[99hawks]

Most would agree the slide started after Penn St game at Iowa City. Not disagreeing about starters looking tired around that time which led to some bench play towards the end of those last few decent wins. Doesn't that suggest the starters were being driven too hard/ran out of energy even before the losses started piling up?