Most of the 3s in that stretch were pretty decent shots. The turnovers would be unfathomably bad for a high school team
Castillo shooting is never a good shot at this point.
And after the first two or three didn't go down, have some situational awareness and drive the ball.
We scored 4 effing points in the last 9 minutes of this basketball game.
Good shot, bad shot, whatever - that's a colossally poor performance by the coaches and the players. It's just so completely inept.
I don't know what you expect anyone to do other than blow up the roster
That's just it, blowing up the roster might lead to the same issues. I think they can make this work with the guys graduating and just a couple of other transfers. I think a lot of the returning pieces are good, but need less usage. Could you imagine how frustrated by #myguy DNG if we had to rely on him to produce as a freshman or sophomore on this roster? I think we've seen enough from guys like Hausen, Mobi, Ugo, CJ, and Castillo to see that they are high major players, particularly with another year of development. I know that Castillo was putrid last night, and has been the worst 3 point shooter in D1 basketball since the Wichita State game, 0-17 since then, but he was 6-10 from three the two games he played before that, and despite the struggles, he isn't scared and doesn't back down, and I think that's really important for a young guard. I also want Dug back, but wouldn't be crushed if he didn't come back. He's mever going to be anything close to Markquis, but he can be a really good energy guy if he buys into the culture of a program. If he were to come back for a second year, I think that would be a good sign of maturity from him.
That being said, the big flaw here is all of these guys would need to return next year in a support role, that means, the coaches would have to go 5 for 5 in finding starters that fit well together.
I don't think they're bad recruiters - most of the players on this team had other good offers.
I think they completely whiffed on roster construction this year (and didn't exactly set the world on fire last year, either).
And, subsequently, because these puzzle pieces don't fit together, they don't have any answers on how to fix it.
yeah fair to say they are good salespeople but I consider roster construction/player fit/player retention to be part of recruiting. Like I don't see any of these guys being a primary scorer on any high-major tournament team.
I wonder about their evaluation. Are they considering how these transfers will fit into their culture and play together, or are they just getting guys with shiny offers? They struck oil in 2022, but the last two transfer classes have been a disaster. I don't care much about the offers of this class, but it's filled with role players, and no dawgs. The best player is a career role player.
