It was the same story both years.

Posted on: March 24, 2025 at 17:35:17 CT

Score quite a few points with skilled scorers being on their game. Not necessarily a great system, but he's good at getting players and they have produced in 2 of the years.

The defense has been good at times, but not because it's necessarily a good defense, but it has been good at being an opportunistic defense. At no point this year, would I say were were a good dig in and defend defense. But we were good at producing turnovers and creating chaos. I compared us to Steph Curry defense the other day.

The turnovers really dried up, our constant switching got us out of position, and using the big to trap out high can get you beat real quick....I HATE that tactic. It was a constant problem under Kwanzo.

I have also argued that the O & the D go hand in hand. Obviously, when we are creating turnovers, we were good in transition and got a lot of easy points. BUT, it also seems pretty evident that when guys like Grill or Bates were really cooking from the outside, that that gave us an energy on defense and it self-propagated.


We must do a few things:
1. Keep and develop the talent we have, and yes, there is talent there.
2. We MUST plug some holes in the portal, starting with 2 high scoring (and hopefully efficient) wings. a Center would be nice, but 2 wings is do or die.
3. We must find a way to generate some scoring outside of turnovers or some guys just being hot shooters. We won't always have this kind of depth to just rely on somebody being hot and late in the year, nobody was hot despite that depth.
4. We must change the D. I do not like switching 100% if your height & defensive ability is not pretty uniform, BUT the bigger problem is our understanding of help defense. We leave guys way too much and abandon lanes like crazy. That has to stop.