Team definitely needed this trip.
Not sure how comfortable I am with D'Angelo averaging 15 shots a game with the collective talent that we have.
Who else would you prefer taking shots? I'll take 9/22 from him all year. Hopefully we can get a lot more easier baskets with more pressure/depth and penetration, but I'll take a Harrison jumper in the half court over just about anyone.
Share the wealth is all I'm saying. If Orlando was on a lesser team, he'd be putting up monster numbers simply because of his versatility.
Moose's comparison of Dee to Russ Smith is starting to look eerie. Dee is skilled enough not just to be labeled as a gunner. So why is he gunning? Does the ball even leave his hands once he touches it?
This falls on Lavin and Whitesell.
You have more than one tool in the toolbox. Use them.
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was on a much lesser team at Monroe, and he averaged single digits. He's not an alpha scorer. His biggest contributions will be getting the ball off the glass and using his skill to move it around. He's a capable scorer, but we're in trouble if he has to carry the scoring load.
As for Harrison, how can we label him a gunner for yesterday if we didn't see the game? We WON. Twitter feeds said he willed us to victory. He's our best FT shooteer by a mile, he's got an airtight handle, he has good vision, he strains the defense everytime he touches the ball, and he makes things easier for everyone around him because of his offensive prowess. Maybe he was killing it off the dribble and spreading it around? We didn't see. He did what he needed to win us a close one.
He's not a monster scorer but he is a versatile playmaker.
My problem with Dee is that the other players may start to force shots because they don't think that they'll see the ball again. That is a serious problem which I thought with the addition of quality players, shooters and Whitesell we would have moved on from.
I'm not commenting on whether game situations warranted 22 shots. If they were 22 good looks within his range, then there's no complaining. However 9-22 is nothing to be thrilled about - in general it's a subpar shooting performance.
One quick point since I'm too lazy to look back at the the box scores of the trip BUT, they're playing 4 x 12 minute quarters so that's 20% more time/shots than a normal college game. They are also playing with a 24 second clock, so again more shots are being taken. How many shots per game is the team taking? What is Dlo's % of them compared to last year. Anyone want to figure that out the answers to those questions rather than looking at one game, or one number in isolation? I seem to remember 3 guys taking double digit shots in the first game.
Also to the couple of math and reality challenged posters 9/22 is 41% so he achieved your goal iof shooting 40-50%. To the other, you do realize that not a single guard in the Big East shot 50% last year? Only 5 shot over 45%. Mack, Woodall, Blue, Starks and Cadougan. Back to the first poster, so if he'd have made one more shot yesteday he'd have shot at a high enough percentage to have been ranked as the 5th best shooting SG in the BE last season, disgraceful. Just saying you might want to set more realistic goals.
