vs. Buffalo (1/27)

[BleedOrange]

With Wol, the capabilities are there, but I believe that he loses focus.

I'm wondering if Simon isn't tough enough on these guys sometimes.

[hammb]

Wol’s defensive effort was awful as was his defense against Toledo in which he didnt pick up the shooter on the game winning three. Thomas if healthy will be right back in the mix sooner than later.

His defense is so up and down and it's so frustrating. He's a good athlete and he's got length. Just seems to have no idea how to use those tools.

And he's our only real offensive threat outside of Campbell so we really can't afford to take him off the floor.

Wol's ball handling skills are very suspect, and that's being nice. Whenever he drives to the hoop or just dribbles the ball, it is a new adventure in tension.

I guess we see that quite a bit differently.

No, he's not setting up shop at the arc and breaking guys down off the dribble with a single quick move. He's 6'9.

He's routinely shown the ability to turn the corner when getting the ball on the move, get downhill and finish near the rim. He's shooting over 60% from 2, over 40% from 3. He's averaging right at 1 TO & 1 A per game. His 1 TOpg ranks him as the lowest of all regulars except Thomas (who's barely played of late) and Ruffin (who is basically just a spot up shooter).

Defensively, he's all over the map, but for a 6'9 scorer I've got zero issues with his handles. If he handled the ball like Cooper Flagg at his size, he'd be at Duke too.

[Hammer]

We get destroyed by good three point shooting teams. Obviously something has to change defensively but Wol has to be on the floor. He’s the only good three point shooter we have. My biggest knock on our coaching staff thus far in their tenure is the lack of three point shooters. In today’s game it is a must. You cannot count on the refs calling fouls when you drive to the hoop. Our opponents pack the lane and dare us to shoot and we can’t. We can talk about defense all we want but it’s a proven fact that if you score more points than your opponent you win. Our scoring philosophy is drive the ball and that’s all we have in our bag. When we get hammered and refs swallow their whistles we don’t have any other tricks.

[mbenecke]

...it’s a proven fact that if you score more points than your opponent you win.

Says who???