LL in the past 2 game has had 3 legit passes in the PnR. He has buried all of them. Funny thing, he isn't good at turning passes to his ankles into pts.This team is not that bad!
All of you think LL is god and he cannot even face up and shoot a 10-foot jump shot, or show any threat of a shot. Is that his fault, or is there anyone coaching him to at least be a threat to shoot the ball? When he gets the ball out above the key, his defender goes and defends the lane and does not even bother with him. Bad Coaching
KJ Simpson is an All-Pac12 PG, and he has been completely figured out by defenses and has to do everything on his own. Where is a solid Pick and Roll game for him to work with, and where is a Chris Paul mid-range game that he can go to?
And while I agree that we get a Road TDS, he is the BEST pure shooter we have had in a very very long time, and we run ZERO plays for him to get a clean and open shot, once again he has to do it on his own, and on the road, he is super tentative. Our offensive plan is to treat everyone the same, and whoever has the open shot can take it, even if it is Clifford over Da Silva, which is dumb. Jaquez is UCLA's best player, and everyone knows it, and he takes the most shots, but not just on his own, he runs off multiple designed screens, so he can get a shot. Then, once defenses over-commit, others can get involved. But no, we run the same vanilla swing it around, try and dribble drive, then kick it out offense.
Then there is Allen sitting on the bench rotting away
Oh, and don't worry about helping them shoot a better FT percentage
And finally, why bother with getting some good Transfers Tad
Tad should not be fired, but he screwed up this season by about an 80%-20% margin over the players
This is the worst coaching job ever by Tad, and he likely knows it.
KJ is an all Pac-12 PG and he has been completely figured out - a dumber sentence has never been written. If he is all pac-12, doesn't that imply you can't "figure him out"? Or are you implying that that pac-12 is a dumpster fire of pgs, none of which are any good? Also, shouldn't an all pac-12 pg be able to get more than 1 pass to his 7-1 center on the PnR?
TDS outside of 1 or 2 outliers is 2 different players, home vs away. And they ran multiple sets to get him open, but surprisingly enough, Utah has watched tape and knows this. He had several open shots, and either didn't take them or didn't make them.
The real issue on this team, as it has been from the start, is a massive lack of leadership, both on and off the court. That is where everyone's angst, anger, disappointment should be. No one stepping up. Tad not fixing it.
Edit - we shot 92.3% fts tonight.
2nd edit - give up on QA - he's not it, will never be it, and will never play meaningful minutes for us this year, if ever. Accept it, it's a fact. Stop trying to make it a thing.
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