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TITLETOWN - A Decade Long Celebration Of The Greatest Achievement In College Athletics History => Kansas State Basketball is hard => Topic started by: ManBearPig on February 01, 2014, 01:35:31 PM
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Our bigs are terrible at finishing around the rim. :flush:
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wanna trade bigs with OSU?
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Gipson is awesome. Would not trade.
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Gipson is awesome. Would not trade.
And he's really our only big
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Gip was pretty good today, and our ability to finish in the paint was the main reason we were in the game. In fact, I'd say oscar is doing an excellent job trying to make his offense work by scoring inside especially given our inconsistency in making jumpers and our continued frequent turnovers.
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We were 27-46 today on 2pt shots, and very few were jump shots from 12 feet and out
Gip went 10-18 against a team that at one point late in the 2nd half today was holding NBA draft pick 1 and 2 to 4-20 FGs
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Cats had 11 turnovers today. Really not that bad, but made some at very bad times.
Absence of a defensive inside enforcer is what hurts. When someone like Staten beats his primary defender, there's no shot blocker waiting for him.
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Yeah, we only have two bigs. Gip, who is pretty good, and DJamer who is DJamer. Our other guys (Nino) are just forced to do "big things" from time to time.
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Gipson was a disaster in the first half, I'm sorry. Much better in the second.
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Gip is our only big. He's going to get tired around the rim.
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It's my hope we play Gip with Hurt next year. I have a feeling, Weber won't do that.
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It's my hope we play Gip with Hurt next year.
Why?
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Cats had 11 turnovers today. Really not that bad, but made some at very bad times.
Absence of a defensive inside enforcer is what hurts. When someone like Staten beats his primary defender, there's no shot blocker waiting for him.
WE actually had 14 TOs today (and WV 10). Yeah, we had no answer for the high ball screen they kept doing. Foster finally started trying to force Staten to go left because he is a blur going to the hole with his right.... but WV still was trying to screen so Staten could go right. Hedging with Gip doesn't work most times with someone that quick, so Gip had to stay back and just wait for Foster or whoever to go around the screen.
Jevon and Will really did not do a good job in taking away the right hand drive to the hole. Sometimes you are overplaying the right side and he still is just gonna get past you.... but I thought the first 2/3 of the game we did a poor job.
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It's my hope we play Gip with Hurt next year.
Why?
Bigger around the rim that way and better matchups sizewise for Gip who sometimes struggles defensively against bigger 5s.
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It's my hope we play Gip with Hurt next year.
Why?
Bigger around the rim that way and better matchups sizewise for Gip who sometimes struggles defensively against bigger 5s.
Hey, thanks for the insight Captain Obvious.
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Our eFG% defense has been really good considering we don't have a real rim protector. In just league games we hold opponents to 32.9% from 3 and league leading 44.3% on 2PT shots. Our block% on 2PT attempts is 10% as well, #4 in the league. Plus we are rebounding good enough to have a slight advantage in OR% which is the most important rebound stat to look at.
The real problem with this team on defense has little to do with the bigs; we've fallen from #2 in the league in TO% forced (21.6%) and #1 in steals (11.0%) to #8 in TOs forced (15.6%) and #10 in steals (6.2%). Granted, part of that could be our guards taking less chances because they know they don't have a rim protector behind them, but more than that I think its younger defenders like Foster, Thomas, and Westicles not being as solid in oscar's help defense scheme resulting in offenses being able to move the ball better. We haven't made up for it enough even with that excellent eFG% defense, especially since we turn it over on offense at a higher clip as well (17.3% last year, 18.1% this year).
A key to #bruceketball is winning the TO% battle and so far in league games we are -2.5% in TO% which is also a major contributor to these close conference road losses. We need to play at least even or gain a slight advantage the rest of Big 12 play to get to 10 or 11 wins.