He looks fine to me. My problem is his usage and lack of touches. We need to get Daniss off the ball more. I envisioned a split more similar to Jenkins and Clayton last year. That is still my hope for the remainder of the season.
Dingle has played 42 minutes in 2 games, has taken 21 shots, a shot every 2 minutes. He is shooting 9-21, not great, certainly not horrible; 3-9 from 3, again, not great, not horrible.
But in those 42 minutes, he has zero, as in 0, nada, assists. He has 1 rebound. So far he doesn’t appear to move with purpose off the ball and plays very little defense. He looks to me like a player whose muscle memory is to play with the ball or wait until he gets it to do his thing. Not necessarily his fault, maybe that’s the way he has always been utilized, I don’t know.
BTW, between Dingle and Alleyne, they played 40 minutes total against Michigan, were 7-23 from the floor, 4-12 from 3, with not an assist and 1 rebound between them. Not winning stats to say the least.
Ledlum and Jenkins, who according to you played “hero ball” played 49 minutes and took 19 shots between them. Neither played well, no question, but my point is, the only person on this team IMO, who is not getting enough shots is Soriano, who took only 8 and I believe at least 3 of those were off offensive rebounds.
The bottom line is, SJU, played and coached a terrible game but they lost the game on the defensive end, while not playing very cohesively on offense either. They let Burnett and McDaniel each dominate a half with bad, no help, no rotation defense and that was that. You move on and hopefully improve.
We post about Barkley weekly and he only played two years.
