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Ryan Dunn - Official Thread
I just finished reading it. Anyone who spends a lot of time on these boards wouldnāt be too surprised by the conclusions. Heās not completely against mid-range shots (some of his previous research suggests theyāre necessary against good teams), but this year weāre generating too many of them and not making enough of them. Not necessarily a death knell if you O-rebound and generate FTs, but we donāt do those either. All that combined with not enough 3 pt attempts gives us the 179th O.
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What did they say about our mid-range shots this year compared to past years?
God please no guard in-transfer next year if Bliss looks good in practice.
We need a 4 probably, but these constant one-year in-transfers who donāt move the needle are not as fun as when we get the player for four years.
I expect another nice step from IMACulate. I expect Rohde to bounce back to league average. I expect Elijah to play like a heralded freshman (flashes of brilliance but inconsistent). I expect Taine to improve a bit and heās already plenty playable. I hope Bond can push more to play at the 3. That plus Bliss is plenty. Harris can get DNPs until heās playable.
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So letās get one that moves the needle. Or be fine with next year as a rebuilding year (which as Iāve said, I am)
(My bad - I guess that part was about 4s. But sorta feel the same about not wanting a guard. Basically: sure fine, letās stand still, and not be that good, but I wonāt be joining in this āmaybe iMac and Rohde and Bliss will be an awesome trioā happy stuff. Maybe they will, but not next year, more likely than not.)
Random observation RE: BB. He is playing more minutes than Huff did in either his RS-FR or RS-SO seasons. It is really good experience for him getting those 15 a game and will be huge for next year. Heās also playing more than double the minute Jack played in his RS-FR campaign.
I think if all goes well, weād be in nice shape to have Blake play 25 next season and ARob play the other 15 and have a solid post rotation
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Great points. One thing I feel like - and bare with me because this is strictly the atJerome eye test talking here - is that BB is ahead of other bigs at this point in his career in terms of his positioning. He doesnāt look nearly as lost out there compared to early in the season and compared to bigs like Huff, Mamadi, etc. heās starting to react more which is like a light switch that flips on for our bigs but usually much further into their careers.
I need to go back and watch more tape to corroborate but thatās my gut feel. Maybe Iām wrong and yāall are seeing something different though.
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I agree. His feet are good on offense and defense; he gets into good spots on both sides, but on offense itās some combination of strength and savvy that he still needs to grow. I think itās also that he is the most agile big weāve had sinceā¦Mamadi?
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Tony once again confirming he is on LRA. Wonder if he follows recruiting
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Tonys weekly zoom with media
The other interesting point in there is that Davidson is similar as a motion offense that does a lot with off ball screens and cuts, but they consistently get more threes off. I would think it has some elements that would appeal to TB in the (unlikely) case that he would want to replace Blocker-Mover as the base continuity motion offense.
Rick Barnes basically copy-and-pasted the offense to Tennessee:
Though that also kinda shows the relative impact of scheme vs personnel; Tennesseeās personnel takes the same actions that Davidson runs and turns them into more mid-range and interior shots, but also crashes hard for offensive rebounds. That approach worked super well in 2018-19 when they had guys who were amazing in the midrange, but has been only solid since.
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Maybe we are a top-10 team, but just donāt know it? From todayās CBS sports College Basketball Rankings-
āafter UNCās loss at Georgia Tech, AP top-10 teams are now 25-29 on the road against unranked opponents this season. That represents a winning percentage of 46.3, which is 27.0 percentage points lower than the historical average in such matchups and 15.7 percentage points worse than the all-time worst win-rate in such matchups. So if it feels like top-10 teams are losing road games to unranked opponents more often than normal, itās because they are.ā
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