Bruno
PhD Student
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Loc: Brooklyn, NY
Reg: 11-21-04
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01-30-18 02:29 PM - Post#245151
Feels like in the league season Brown has continued to show the same strengths and weaknesses overall. So playing true to form this far.
Still getting to the line, still hitting from the line, still forcing turnovers, still forcing tempo and still defending the three pretty well. Pretty much everything you’d expect from a guard-focused team.
On the other side, still getting beat up inside, still giving up a high percentage of 2s (along the lines of a team whose strength isn’t inside), and not real efficient on either end.
The only thing they haven’t done as well in the league season has been to corral more defensive rebounds.
What’s been most pronounced in the wins vs. losses has been the inside play. In their two wins they got 45 and 30 pct of their scoring from their bigs (where I include Howard, Choh, DeWolf and I’ll even include Massey in that because they have been putting him exclusively at the 4). In the two losses those numbers have been 22 pct and 13 pct.
Even in the Dartmouth win, the Big Green’s comeback was led by points inside.
So I’m not a doctor or anything, and there’s noise in this data of course, but the level of big man productivity matters. We still need more of a fix for it.
That aside, you look at what they’re capable of individually, and you love it. For a young player, DeWolf is such an effective banger inside - and by the way he catches passes and finishes nicely. Choh is very active, and his ability to get to the rim with energy is strong. Howard has probably underperformed vs. what we expected, but you still know how smooth and crafty he is on the blocks and how he puts the ball in despite giving away several inches. And even Massey, all 6’4 of him, is the craftiest and savviest is the bunch, and gives a misdirection spark off the bench by being hard to guard. But as a group, it hasn’t been consistent enough. And I can’t help but wonder if Fuller, who is probably our most legitimate back-to-the-basket scorer, would make a difference or not. I don’t know.
I think given the roster Brown plays the right strategy. But they need a little more inside if they want to make the Ivy tournament.
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