• Hi Guest, want to participate in the discussions, keep track of read/unread posts and more? Create your free account and increase the benefits of your WyoNation.com experience today!

Now we get to really see how good Shyatt & staff are...

McPeachy

Well-known member
It became painfully obvious that the MWC has figured out how to defend us.

Teams are going to zone the shit out of us, and if we stay cold, and force shots, it potentially could be a rough February.

I especially thought that when we played SDSU at home, we should have taken a page out of Bucky's book - and sent Riley & Josh driving to the basket every play.

I have confidence, and I certainly think Shyatt realizes - it is time to make a change, and that change is healthy, smart, and good.
 
although not our style, go to the hole get the teams in foul trouble and get to the line, esp if the 3's not working, we have to understand that 2's score points as well. I'm thinking Josh and Larry are going to have a monster game against Nevada this weekend and we frustrate the Wolf Pack, the CSU game now that's another story, with LE, how are our students gonna razz him and Jelly Donut, JJ Avila...CSU is dangerous hands down
 
My biggest concern I have right now with our Offense is the shooting mindset. By no means am I saying we need to jack up ill-advised shots, but I have always thought that if we have an open shot (SHOT CLOCK ASIDE), that we take it! Seems like we pass on decent looks in hopes of getting a better shot. When suddenly we are ten feet farther away with 4 seconds left now.

Grabau
Adams
McManeman
Gorski (his shot takes FOREVER btw)
Hankerson

need to shoot when open. So many dang pump fakes. Shoot the rock guys.
 
Against USU, something I noticed, a lot of the time we didn't do our usual rotating and handing the ball off/passing that we normally do. The guys did pass, but they didn't move much from where they were when they got the ball. So I don't think that helped much either.
 
McPeachy said:
It became painfully obvious that the MWC has figured out how to defend us.
Truer words rarely spoken on this forum.

Shyatt is going to have to realize that sometimes you can't just wait till 10 seconds remain on the shot clock before you take a shot.

I'm reminded of the time (maybe '98?) when I stopped in to watch a basketball practice in the late fall before a football game. I still remember McClain grabbing the ball out of Brett McFall's hands and kicking it up into the stands SCREAMING something to the effect "You were open, why didn't you take the shot". Things settled down, and everybody laughed about it.

Shyatt: Let 'em shoot if they are open, no matter when. Are you listening? No charge. You're welcome.
 
Stay with the slow down offense where we use up the clock or get a little more up tempo? Even with our record we need to do something a little different.
 
I agree with Mcpeaches - I say we channel our inner Primeval Steve and drive the ball to the hoop and hope for a layup or foul.
 
PCB said:
Stay with the slow down offense where we use up the clock or get a little more up tempo? Even with our record we need to do something a little different.

Simply put...shoot when open.
 
djm19 said:
My biggest concern I have right now with our Offense is the shooting mindset. By no means am I saying we need to jack up ill-advised shots, but I have always thought that if we have an open shot (SHOT CLOCK ASIDE), that we take it! Seems like we pass on decent looks in hopes of getting a better shot. When suddenly we are ten feet farther away with 4 seconds left now.

Grabau
Adams
McManeman
Gorski (his shot takes FOREVER btw)
Hankerson

need to shoot when open. So many dang pump fakes. Shoot the rock guys.
Not trying to be a dick or anything, but even the announcers (as bad as they were) mentioned than Gorski is a pure shooter and gets his shots off fast.

The rest I completely agree. Wyoming seems to pass on a wide open shot 50% of the time. Put the shot up when open and play solid D. Slowing down the offensive tempo and not looking for a shot until there are less than 10 seconds remaining just leads to problems.

Go Pokes!!
 
JimmyDimes said:
djm19 said:
My biggest concern I have right now with our Offense is the shooting mindset. By no means am I saying we need to jack up ill-advised shots, but I have always thought that if we have an open shot (SHOT CLOCK ASIDE), that we take it! Seems like we pass on decent looks in hopes of getting a better shot. When suddenly we are ten feet farther away with 4 seconds left now.

Grabau
Adams
McManeman
Gorski (his shot takes FOREVER btw)
Hankerson

need to shoot when open. So many dang pump fakes. Shoot the rock guys.
Not trying to be a dick or anything, but even the announcers (as bad as they were) mentioned than Gorski is a pure shooter and gets his shots off fast.

The rest I completely agree. Wyoming seems to pass on a wide open shot 50% of the time. Put the shot up when open and play solid D. Slowing down the offensive tempo and not looking for a shot until there are less than 10 seconds remaining just leads to problems.

Go Pokes!!

Yeah, maybe in person, watching him get blocked three times didn't help my perception. Just seemed like the release took forever.
 
JimmyDimes said:
djm19 said:
My biggest concern I have right now with our Offense is the shooting mindset. By no means am I saying we need to jack up ill-advised shots, but I have always thought that if we have an open shot (SHOT CLOCK ASIDE), that we take it! Seems like we pass on decent looks in hopes of getting a better shot. When suddenly we are ten feet farther away with 4 seconds left now.

Grabau
Adams
McManeman
Gorski (his shot takes FOREVER btw)
Hankerson

need to shoot when open. So many dang pump fakes. Shoot the rock guys.
Not trying to be a dick or anything, but even the announcers (as bad as they were) mentioned than Gorski is a pure shooter and gets his shots off fast.

The rest I completely agree. Wyoming seems to pass on a wide open shot 50% of the time. Put the shot up when open and play solid D. Slowing down the offensive tempo and not looking for a shot until there are less than 10 seconds remaining just leads to problems.

Go Pokes!!


I agree with you about Gorski. I was just about to post this. When Gorski decides to shoot his release on his shot is actually fast. The one shot he hit the other night he caught and let it go in a split second.
 
fromolwyoming said:
Against USU, something I noticed, a lot of the time we didn't do our usual rotating and handing the ball off/passing that we normally do. The guys did pass, but they didn't move much from where they were when they got the ball. So I don't think that helped much either.
That was because USU was in a zone defense, a 1-3-1. We run that motion offense against man to man defense.
 
djm19 said:
PCB said:
Stay with the slow down offense where we use up the clock or get a little more up tempo? Even with our record we need to do something a little different.

Simply put...shoot when open.

always been my exact thoughts, in high school i was coached put up a good shot, but shoot if open, after all you can't win if you don't score the basketball, especially in this type of offense
 
Unless the refs are calling the fouls, Josh and Riley pinballing to the bucket is just suicide. The bigs underneath will eat their lunch.

I'd rather see both of them with the drive to the pull-up jumper.

WW
 
djm19 said:
Simply put...shoot when open.

This. I think this is actually part of the problem with our offense. The guys seem to pass up a few open shots waiting for the shot clock to be under 10, and by the time they actually get an open shot, they're often rushing it. Adams, Grabau, Gorski, and Herndon I think would all benefit from being allowed to take the open shot, even if it's only 10 seconds in.

One way or another, we've got to figure out a way to open up the offense and get Nance free.

GO POKES!
 
WilyWapiti said:
Unless the refs are calling the fouls, Josh and Riley pinballing to the bucket is just suicide. The bigs underneath will eat their lunch.

I'd rather see both of them with the drive to the pull-up jumper.

WW

I agree with this - and the refs were not calling any fouls on them (Utah St.) Tuesday night. That's why Josh had such a rough night.
 
WYCowboy said:
WilyWapiti said:
Unless the refs are calling the fouls, Josh and Riley pinballing to the bucket is just suicide. The bigs underneath will eat their lunch.

I'd rather see both of them with the drive to the pull-up jumper.

WW

I agree with this - and the refs were not calling any fouls on them (Utah St.) Tuesday night. That's why Josh had such a rough night.

home cookin sucks sometimes....lol
 

Latest posts

Back
Top