Game Thread [2023-24] Louisville

[aiw]

ken pom saved

 

[aiw]

56/50/56

 

[CK86]

That free throw shooting was horrific.

 

[aiw]

Was Ryan Young in a summer league game?

 

[rome8180]

POOISVILLE

After this performance, I have downgraded them to SHITISVILLE (pronounced Shitty-ville).

 

[Pantone287]

Watching now and was just struck by how much watching Power play defense is like watching a generic opponent in a bad basketball movie play "defense".

 

[physicsfactor]

He is so clueless on that end. Do they make him practice defense?

 

[dukebluedevils05]

Yeah, his defense was soooo bad.

 

[physicsfactor]

Now it’s only a matter of Spencer Hubbard getting up a shot

And it was glorious

 

[childress22]

Watching now and was just struck by how much watching Power play defense is like watching a generic opponent in a bad basketball movie play "defense".

For whatever reason, my son and I decided to watch "The Pistol" this week, and your comment is spot-on.

 

[rome8180]

His defensive footwork is the real glaring issue for me.

 

[childress22]

His defensive footwork is the real glaring issue for me.

I think it's a combo of the footwork itself and the reaction time. If his "oh, I need to rotate to that guy" thoughts came a bit faster, that would mitigate things.

 

[childress22]

Duke's relative rank does quantify a couple of things about this team that aren't bad, going forward: We don't play particularly better at home than elsewhere, and we don't play worse (relative to expectation) against better teams than worse teams.

 

[childress22]

Wild, but unsurprising, how many Big 12 teams play much better than expected against inferior teams, but not better teams (e.g., Houston, Baylor, Iowa State, and BYU).

 

[physicsfactor]

Wild, but unsurprising, how many Big 12 teams play much better than expected against inferior teams, but not better teams (e.g., Houston, Baylor, Iowa State, and BYU).

Brad Brownell was correct. Also, wrong thread.

 

[childress22]

Oops, my bad.

 

[rome8180]

His defensive footwork is the real glaring issue for me.

I think it's a combo of the footwork itself and the reaction time. If his "oh, I need to rotate to that guy" thoughts came a bit faster, that would mitigate things.

See, I feel his rotations have improved a bit over the year. It's when he's iso'd on an island that he has no chance because his defensive prep is terrible. He gets down in a stance, but he doesn't know what to do with his feet to make sure he can change directions quickly. He also consistently misreads which direction his man is going to take on his drive.

 

[childress22]

He also consistently misreads which direction his man is going to take on his drive.

Yeah, it's possible I'm confounding some of this with reaction time. Maybe he quickly starts wrong reactions all the time, and then has to belatedly switch to the right reaction. Some of that is 1-on-1, some of that still happens off the ball, too.

 

[rome8180]

And I may be overindexing to what I saw in the 2nd half of yesterday's game. Louisville iso'd him several times when he was out there. They got something good out of it every time because he got blown by, which created a difficult help situation for Flip or someone else.

 

[rome8180]

Man, if Stewart didn't have the weakest hands ever, he'd be the GOAT rebounder. Can we get him hand augmentation surgery? I'm thinking he just has tiny hands.