Sure but not having access to Warley or Bliss or Rohde meant any dude with PG next to his name was gonna play a lot. Especially one who played a season of high level hoops already.
Glad he did. And I’m not saying Sanchez wouldn’t have figured it out eventually… I do highly doubt it would have happened that fast without the back.
I still think a healthy Bliss is our best PG. Sadly as Hav has said we will probably only see the evidence at Pitt or Villanova next year.
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Yeah, I agree with all of this - the goal isn’t going to be that the person is perfect with every decision - it’s that they realize when it’s a bad one and there’s a better option as quickly as possible.
Would Sanchez have realized he could play Ames more without Rohde’s injury? Impossible to say, right? Maybe that Coppin St. game where they didn’t pressure and ran matchup zone all game was all he needed to see the light of day.
Personally, I don’t find it very plausible that we go from 10 to 36 mins with just one game in-between if there wasn’t some malleability on the Ames point built into his thought process already - especially given that he’s already been pretty open to shifting things around with Sharma playing, Taine not, Power starting but playing so few, etc.
I guess my main point is that I think there’s reason to be encouraged both by what Sachez is seeing (what’s good to him and what isn’t) and how quickly he’s willing to shift toward that.
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I think when Ronchez said we’d play PG by committee, he meant he’d literally have to put the entire committee on the floor at once. If it takes Ames + Rohde to add up to 1 point guard, then so be it, we’re playing a two-man point guard.
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It seems to me based on all the time I’ve spent breaking down the tape that the primary way in which the new offense is better than the old offense is that the new offense tries to go towards the basket whereas the old offense tried to go away from it.
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To my eye, we seem to be less like automatons seeking perfect execution and more like ballers looking to exploit opportunities.
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As a personal challenge, Tony implemented an offense designed to avoid scoring to give the other team a chance - sorta like turning up the difficulty on a video game.
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We are taking a lot of mid-range 2s still (mostly at the cost of shots at the rim), which doesn’t worry me yet, but is certainly something to notice. It’s not clear to me where our rim pressure will come from, but it will need to come from somewhere. Though BYU and Creighton had excellent offenses last season without taking a lot of shots at the rim, mostly by taking half their shots from 3.
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The main thing I like about Sanchez and this offense is the amount of guys with the green light to shoot and the freedom they have to take that shot. Takes the pressure off
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Seeing this made me look at Creighton’s numbers some more. They still shot almost 60% on 2’s which was 3rd best in the country. Guessing that’s the Kalk effect lol
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