I’m curious to see what Juzang adds to the offense, particularly from 3. Missing Hill is a huge. We haven’t looked good, but having Mick Cronin rather than Steve Alford keeps me calmer!
On a side note, it was nice to see George Zidek’s son playing for the Waves and reuniting the son of a Bruin champion with Lorenzo Romar. I wish them well.
I’m curious to see what Juzang adds to the offense, particularly from 3. Missing Hill is a huge. We haven’t looked good, but having Mick Cronin rather than Steve Alford keeps me calmer!
On a side note, it was nice to see George Zidek’s son playing for the Waves and reuniting the son of a Bruin champion with Lorenzo Romar. I wish them well.
On paper, having Juzang in the rotation (and with Bernard currently starting I would assume Juzang was going to be in the starting lineup) would give the team a more consistent outside threat to utilize. That said, the Bruins seem to have trouble utilizing the other consistent outside threat they have on the team in Kyman, and they don't seem to be running any action for anyone on offense.
Right now I'm thinking the offensive issues are more systemic rather than personnel-based.
We will see. In the 2nd half, we fed Riley fairly effectively. If we get it inside to Hill or Riley and have some guys knocking down 3s when they kick it back out, it should open up the court and help spacing. It’s early and I look forward to being at full strength and hopefully avoid COVID.
The inside out with Riley is really effective because Riley is such a good offensive threat, but the guys outside are gonna have to be more consistent when the ball comes back to them and knock down 3s or at least take a couple steps in and hit some midrange shots to keep teams from doubling Riley or denying the entry in the first place. I can also see Riley distributing to Smith or Bernard for immediate drives to the rim. There's too much listless ball movement around the perimeter right now.
Hill isn't great in the post, so I don't know that you can do the same thing with him that they are with Riley. Where Hill excels is on the boards, as he's an excellent rebounder and got so many of his points last year cleaning up on shot attempts and making free throws (he was surprisingly good at the line last year).
Honestly, we had so many open looks from deep in this game that just regressing back to the mean would be a huge boon to the offense. I'd expect shooting to get better as the season progresses.
Dmitri, I don’t think either Hill or Riley are consistent in the post. Both have had some good games there. Riley has better footwork, but can struggle against taller players. Hill has shown a decent jump hook with either hand, but sometimes gets called for traveling. But having both available gives us more of a chance along with 10 fouls. Hill is a better rebounder and defender with more athleticism.
Yeah, I think that's fair. I think Riley is good enough in the post that you can run a legitimate inside-out game, while with Hill he works better getting dirty points, for lack of a better descriptor. But I'm a big proponent of what Hill brings on the defensive end being a major factor in the team's success.
I’m curious to see what Juzang adds to the offense, particularly from 3. Missing Hill is a huge. We haven’t looked good, but having Mick Cronin rather than Steve Alford keeps me calmer!
On a side note, it was nice to see George Zidek’s son playing for the Waves and reuniting the son of a Bruin champion with Lorenzo Romar. I wish them well.
On paper, having Juzang in the rotation (and with Bernard currently starting I would assume Juzang was going to be in the starting lineup) would give the team a more consistent outside threat to utilize. That said, the Bruins seem to have trouble utilizing the other consistent outside threat they have on the team in Kyman, and they don't seem to be running any action for anyone on offense.
Right now I'm thinking the offensive issues are more systemic rather than personnel-based.
We will see. In the 2nd half, we fed Riley fairly effectively. If we get it inside to Hill or Riley and have some guys knocking down 3s when they kick it back out, it should open up the court and help spacing. It’s early and I look forward to being at full strength and hopefully avoid COVID.
The inside out with Riley is really effective because Riley is such a good offensive threat, but the guys outside are gonna have to be more consistent when the ball comes back to them and knock down 3s or at least take a couple steps in and hit some midrange shots to keep teams from doubling Riley or denying the entry in the first place. I can also see Riley distributing to Smith or Bernard for immediate drives to the rim. There's too much listless ball movement around the perimeter right now.
Hill isn't great in the post, so I don't know that you can do the same thing with him that they are with Riley. Where Hill excels is on the boards, as he's an excellent rebounder and got so many of his points last year cleaning up on shot attempts and making free throws (he was surprisingly good at the line last year).
Honestly, we had so many open looks from deep in this game that just regressing back to the mean would be a huge boon to the offense. I'd expect shooting to get better as the season progresses.
Dmitri, I don’t think either Hill or Riley are consistent in the post. Both have had some good games there. Riley has better footwork, but can struggle against taller players. Hill has shown a decent jump hook with either hand, but sometimes gets called for traveling. But having both available gives us more of a chance along with 10 fouls. Hill is a better rebounder and defender with more athleticism.
Yeah, I think that's fair. I think Riley is good enough in the post that you can run a legitimate inside-out game, while with Hill he works better getting dirty points, for lack of a better descriptor. But I'm a big proponent of what Hill brings on the defensive end being a major factor in the team's success.
Cool that Don gave Big George a shout out today. I think Jan hit more 3s today than George did in his entire career.
Steve Alfraud would have lost this game and made excuses such as he can't play for the players.