"1 Shot Brandon"

[4RunningRam]

This is insane. How in the world does our starting shooting guard and our best shooter and the leagues best 3 point shooter....only get ONE shot the entire game? Makes zero sense. We only hit four 3 pointers all game and guys like Joey struggled from the outside...and yet we can only get Brandon ONE shot the entire game? Prior to today the fewest shots for B in a game on the year was 5.

You get this man 8-12 shots in a game and you're going to get 15-18 points. Period. Why Shaka doesnt seem to grasp this yet is beyond me. After the first 30 minutes of very little production from the outside, one would think Coach might have whispered something in a timeout along the lines of "get Brandon the ball" or lets run play ____ to get Brandon open on the wing".

Joey takes 13 shots, but Brandon only squeezes off one. There's a problem with that.

 

[Blackmagic804]

I said this in another post but our offense is designed to run through Larry, I'm almost willing to bet that we don't have a set play for our guards. Maybe a curl from an out of bounds play but that's about it. BRozz usually scores in transition or if Saintil or Kirll are in the game they might kick it back out. I have seen in numerous games Brandon being open, waving his arms calling for the ball but he does not get it. But Shaka's the coach and this is Larry and Joey's team eveyone else must buy into the plan.

 

[Natty]

I agree somewhat, but I also think Brandon could do a better job of creating his own shot. He played 24 minutes and only attempted 1 shot...not all of that his on his teammates.

0 free throw attempts with that. I'd like to see Brandon use his quickness to get in the lane a bit more instead of depending on the long ball (over half of his shots on the season are from long range, 123 of 202).

Joey took 9 shots tonight inside the arch to Brandon's 0, and Brandon (according to ESPN.com's measurements...) has 4 inches on Joey.

 

[Blackmagic804]

I agree somewhat, but I also think Brandon could do a better job of creating his own shot. He played 24 minutes and only attempted 1 shot...not all of that his on his teammates.

0 free throw attempts with that. I'd like to see Brandon use his quickness to get in the lane a bit more instead of depending on the long ball (over half of his shots on the season are from long range, 123 of 202).

Joey took 9 shots tonight inside the arch to Brandon's 0, and Brandon (according to ESPN.com's measurements...) has 4 inches on Joey.

I agree but if you "buy into the plan" you feed the ball to inside there is not much creating your own shot in this offensive plan unless the shot clock is running out. Out of those 9 shots Joey took inside maybe 5 were blocked and no foul was called so IMHO that's not so smart basketball pretty much "undocumented" turnovers. I think we all will agree that Brandon, Ed nor Bradford have the green light on the offensive end as Joey and Larry.

 

[4RunningRam]

I agree somewhat, but I also think Brandon could do a better job of creating his own shot. He played 24 minutes and only attempted 1 shot...not all of that his on his teammates.

I disagree. I think a role of the point guard is to get the ball into the hands of the team's best shooter.

The starting "shooting" guard should not have 1 shot attempt to the point guards 10 misses, esp when our pt guard's no longer a guy like Maynor who you can expect to shoulder the brunt of the scoring load.

 

[major ram]

I agree somewhat, but I also think Brandon could do a better job of creating his own shot. He played 24 minutes and only attempted 1 shot...not all of that his on his teammates.

I disagree. I think a role of the point guard is to get the ball into the hands of the team's best shooter.

The starting "shooting" guard should not have 1 shot attempt to the point guards 10 misses, esp when our pt guard's no longer a guy like Maynor who you can expect to shoulder the brunt of the scoring load.

How in the world did Norwood and the search staff miss this guy when we were looking for a coach????

 

[4RunningRam]

I agree somewhat, but I also think Brandon could do a better job of creating his own shot. He played 24 minutes and only attempted 1 shot...not all of that his on his teammates.

I disagree. I think a role of the point guard is to get the ball into the hands of the team's best shooter.

The starting "shooting" guard should not have 1 shot attempt to the point guards 10 misses, esp when our pt guard's no longer a guy like Maynor who you can expect to shoulder the brunt of the scoring load.

How in the world did Norwood and the search staff miss this guy when we were looking for a coach????

This is the response of someone who has zero to add to a basketball conversation and wants to derail a thread with personal attacks. Mature.

Here's a tip. You could take issue with my points by providing some of your own instead. Nobody likes a smart a$$.

 

[major ram]

Here are my points
-maybe NU focued on BROzz and kept him from getting the ball where he likes to get it...called a tendency...
-maybe BRozz had an off night
-JRod had to penetrate because NO ONE ELSE WAS
-maybe BRozz shoudl have driven more...he is bigger than Joey
-I didnt see anything to support your insinuation that BRozz was being passed over in the shot selection
-NU plays tough half court defense...B ROz tends to disappear in these type games
-Every one wanted us to hammer it inside, we did and unfortunately we had a lot of good shots rim out...it happens
Want me to go on? I felt the above were pretty obvious making your diatribe worthy of criticism

 

[Mistachill]

The pg can't be held responsible for everyone's shot total. Maybe Joey had to take so many shots because the two guards couldn't free themselves for open looks. Remember, VCU wasn't on the court by themselves. There was another team on the court playing defense trying to stop us.

Some of you guys think we're so good and so talent we control everything that happens on the court. Can you give the other team a little credit every now and then?

 

[major ram]

PS you are correct no one likes a smart ass...

 

[G-Man]

I agree somewhat, but I also think Brandon could do a better job of creating his own shot. He played 24 minutes and only attempted 1 shot...not all of that his on his teammates.

I disagree. I think a role of the point guard is to get the ball into the hands of the team's best shooter.

The starting "shooting" guard should not have 1 shot attempt to the point guards 10 misses, esp when our pt guard's no longer a guy like Maynor who you can expect to shoulder the brunt of the scoring load.

I think that there's probably truth to what both of you are saying...and yes, the defense was exceptional. Bottom line, it's not good if Brandon only gets 1 shot.

 

[RamboRowdy]

I disagree. I think a role of the point guard is to get the ball into the hands of the team's best shooter.

The starting "shooting" guard should not have 1 shot attempt to the point guards 10 misses, esp when our pt guard's no longer a guy like Maynor who you can expect to shoulder the brunt of the scoring load.

How in the world did Norwood and the search staff miss this guy when we were looking for a coach????

This is the response of someone who has zero to add to a basketball conversation and wants to derail a thread with personal attacks. Mature.

Here's a tip. You could take issue with my points by providing some of your own instead. Nobody likes a smart a$$.

Ok I get it (Shaka would not approve though)

 

[BradRamFan]

Absolutely no midrange game.

Absolutely no ability to develop our own shot.

We can shoot the 3, we can hit the inside dunk.

Lose either one of those and the opposition knows exactly the type of basket we can make....makes defending that basket pretty easy.

 

[VRam]

I think it's time to start Nixon. We need someone who can beat his man off the dribble, get in the lane. Nixon has really improved his shooting and he's finishing well at the rim. He creates separation from the defender. His defense is great.

 

[fmrick]

Man, reading this thread you'd think we were 5-13, not 13-5.

We lost this game because the other team played better than we did. They play very good defense, they forced us to play their style of play, they could have cared less about our press, and they forced us to do exactly what we try to do to other teams- Lose our cool under pressure. We were frustrated much of the game. You could see it on our players faces.

Did I day they were pretty darn good? Or that, in the times we have gone up there to play I'd never seen the crowd so into the game? Or that they are pretty darn good? Props to NU for the upgrade of the facility. Still not the best, but much better.

Move on. Our season is not over, but the plan just got a little harder. We still had a chance at first. Now we don't. Not unless NU totally falls apart, which after what I saw yesterday is not likely to happen. We have to stop finger pointing and name calling on these boards. The players read this crap and the last thing we need is to get something into a players head that causes them to question them self, the team, or the coach. Brandon did not get shots because they played stellar defense and frustrated him and the other guys. We took the shot that were available. My guess is they said- "Let Larry have is 20, that is not going to beat us". In my opinion what actually beat us was us missing a lot of very easy shots, rushing too many shots, and not controlling the tempo.

So move on. Now we need to win a lot of games if we want to play one fewer on the way to the Tournament Championship. Four games in March, in this conference, is going to be pretty hard.