Mens - Loyola @ RC - Tuesday 2/11 7pm ESPN+

[spider23]

Agree about Dusan. He is what is known as a "ball stopper". He seems to play hard, and can score it at times, but he is not going to swing the ball quickly. For being such a "fluid" offense supposedly, we don't pop the ball around. Watching other college games, it seems everyone moves it much quicker than our team?

 

[spider23]

Hopefully no other school with overly healthy NIL coffers think the same thing

You never know, but Walz seems like a lifer - seems loyal and could see him not wanting to start over. And maybe the other school doesn't have easy access to a golf course. But yes if an SEC school thinks he could help, doesn't seem like 80s and PQ would pony up.

 

[8legs1dream]

You never know, but Walz seems like a lifer - seems loyal and could see him not wanting to start over. And maybe the other school doesn't have easy access to a golf course. But yes if an SEC school thinks he could help, doesn't seem like 80s and PQ would pony up.

If you dangled 500 grand in front of me I could be convinced to become a Rutgers or South Carolina fan 🙃

 

[fan2011]

Dusan is very efficient when he can get to the line. He is shooting like 90% for free throws. He is not efficient when he is taking 3s, like many on the team this year.

Even though we did not win, I was happy to see the number of 3fg attempts drop.

 

[CarolinaSpider]

and I want to give credit to the guards. we know Tyne and B Artis have had some struggles offensively. they were both very good last night on that end.

I just wish Tyne would dribble less and pass more, but biggest of all is stop dribbling to the corners or sidelines and getting trapped. I think Ced had the same problem and then simply learned to reverse his dribble then create a better opportunity for an open pass or shot or drive.

 

[MrTbone]

we've gone away from a straight man defense. we're switching, or handing off on the perimeter with or without screens. it's almost a zone, but it's still man. and it's back to the old problem we had on defense, where we need smart guys to play together a long time to get it. there are too many communications mistakes being made on the switches. the problem is we're unlikely to have a core playing together for 3 years to perfect it.

This is absolutely mind-boggling to me. It seems pretty plain to me that we are not great playing this defense for any number of reasons. Last year we largely played straight man with guards who weren’t any bigger, why switch back to this?

I guess we’re perhaps less athletic this season but man, it is just painful watching the defense.

 

[spiderman]

I agree with this about his defense but also think his offense is overrated. He has 15 assists TOTAL for the entire year (and thats consistent for career numbers). His ATR is awful. You aren't really helping all that much on offense if all you do is score 13-14 really inefficient points (42% overall and 28% from 3). I also don't like that he has been the "best" player on a team that is awful for three years running. I'd suspect that his shortcomings are part of the problem. I'd give AP all the minutes he can handle over Dusan because he does literally everything else except shoot two's equal to (like 3's) or better than Dusan and he looks like more of the kind of guy who could succeed in our offense once he figures it out (and hits a few shots). I no his shooting has been awful, but I think there is hope that could get better - - Dusan is what he is and it's not going to change!

advanced metrics show Dusan with a 57.7% True Shooting % which takes into account 2 pointers, 3 pointers, and free throws.
that's only behind Roche, Walz and Beagle.

he doesn't have many assists so it doesn't look like he's creating offense, but he's #1 on the team in Offfensive Box Score Plus/Minus ... which means we score more when he's on the floor.

In Overall Box Score Plus/Minus, Dusan's 3rd behind only Hunt and Walz.

 

[SFspidur]

Dusan is expected to play on Saturday.

 

[Spiders4ever]

Hopefully no other school with overly healthy NIL coffers think the same thing

They do.

 

[Dudeness]

r we getting any "you are so fvcking stupid" out of Mooney on the sidelines?

1000% yes.