The Hoosiers bullshit worked because Brown and Wade could generate offense in one on one matchups late in the shot clock after 25 seconds of useless passing and running around. It's why he was so successful with Angel too.
I have only watched a little this year but my guess is these freshmen just need to put their heads down and get to the rim.
It's so early for this but as good as Pack has been he doesn't show signs that he's either able to do this or he knows exactly when he's needed to go to the rim. Selton absolutely could look like someone who can and will breakdown a defense when he needs to, but this game was an outlier so we'll see. Rudi also looked game for putting his head down and getting to the basket. I'll have to see more before I can determine that this was more the ball moving to create these opportunities or them doing it themselves. In this game they seemed to get a lot from the baseline even Bradford created that space by flashing to the elbow. This makes me think that this is more of a factor of the offense than their ability to break down someone 1-on-1 but we'll see.
The game changer as far as shot creation is Bradford. He's the first reliable, back to the basket shot maker oscar has had here. Gip had some jyc qualities to his game that created opportunities, and Dean could back someone up if he had a size advantage, like against Brady Manek, but Davion seems to be the first guy we've had who is always available who we can dump it down to in a pinch. The most promising thing about him is that 5 games into his college career his very good hands are already apparent. As I'm sure you know any big man who can move and who has good hands can absolutely take over a college game if needed. I'm worried about his fitness level, especially with Ez on crutches, and I'm also worried about how susceptible he will be up getting pulled out defensively in a 5 out situation, but he might end up being the best player in this class.
It didn't work but I did like that oscar offense for defensed him late against Milwaukee because he recognized that they would pull him away from the lane on defense, so oscar put Antonio in so they could switch every screen. Again it didn't work, they pretty much scored at will late. Ez can stay on the floor in these situations, but he isn't nearly as reliable on the offensive end as Davion is.