I think some are harder on Bane than deserved given he's the ONLY scoring threat on our team most games and every defense knows it. But certainly there's some truth to the fact that he's not as aggressive as he needs to be.
You're absolutely right on the rest of it. Samuel has improved but is still incredibly limited if he gets the ball more than 4 feet from the basket. The thought that some people have that he's a guy we can consistently run our offense through is very far fetched imo. Then you have RJ who is capable of scoring 30 but even more capable of going 4-15 with 4 turnovers.
At least those 3 are capable though and KS and RJ both are better than last year which gives you hope for the future. Outside of those 3 I also just see athletes who aren't great basketball players. Farabello has shown some promise but not enough to make a significant difference to this point.
We can all point the finger at Dixon for the many recruiting misses and defections that led us here as has been done ad nauseam already but you also have to give SOME level of credit to the coaches and players for figuring out how to win 4 of these first 9 B12 games despite the incredibly flawed makeup of this year's team.
agree that kevin is limited in his shooting range, but when you get him the ball in the right areas he can be very effective and i would rather see the frogs work to get the ball to kevin down low and force teams to respond to that than the screen high, try to drive in isolation and kick out to a stationary shooter which just isn't getting it done for the frogs.
skip accused my of cherry picking stats using the conference play numbers, but for me those are the telling numbers. these are the teams who know what you are going to run on offense, the scouting is more thorough than lamar or uc irvine and the game prep is more intense along with the level of competition.
frogs averaged 73 points a game in their 13 non-conference games and that number falls to 59 points a game in conference play.
this isn't a matter of a few players in a shooting slump, they need to maximize what they can get out of their knowns and hope some of these younger players start to play better though again i am supposed to be happy with the freshmen.