(12-15-2019, 03:24 PM)GK3 Wrote:(12-15-2019, 01:22 PM)teejers1 Wrote:(12-15-2019, 06:21 AM)OutsiderFan Wrote: Watched a good amount of this game. I'll bet 60 of Stanford's 78 points came in the paint or on fouls in the paint. Outside of White's three 3pt FGs, only Wills made another, which means Jones and Terry were 0-fer. DaSilva just toyed with SJSU inside and did whatever he wanted against man and zone defenses. Though Jones and Terry had terrible shooting games, it was clearly obvious they and DaSilva are Stanford's best players.
White did go 3/4 from 3pt line but also led the team in turnovers with 4 in only 18 minutes played. He can't be allowed to play PG, and brings nothing on defense, but certainly can provide 3pt production. Davis also had a pretty invisible game. I can't figure out if Wills isn't assertive enough or he knows his limitations and plays within them, but he can defend and is a decent athlete. Delaire can be trusted to do some good things, and Keefe is limited but seems to have a decent head for the game.
I don't know what Kisunas is doing. I would push my starters over giving him minutes. So basically Haase has 8 players who can contribute in some sort of meaningful way:
: Terry, DaSilva, Jones, Davis, Wills, Delaire, White, Keefe
When you look at minutes played, those eight guys got the most minutes. So this makes sense. You'd love to have 9-10 guys who can play, but it is not at all uncommon for college teams to have 8-man rotations. Biggest weakness for this team is lack of any real shot blocking presence.
Will be interesting to see how this team does against what looks like a pretty good USF team. Probably need a win there to get Maples filled for the big Kansas tilt on ABC in two weeks.
Agree that White had far too many TOs yesterday (and a couple were bad - early pick up of dribble; needless long pass into traffic), though I disagree with one of the travel calls.
But I think his D is a tad better than CW in these parts. Is he as good a defender as Wills, Davis and Terry? No. But there is a lot of room between that level and bad defense.
Yes, it would be nice to have good shot blocker/rim protector. On the other hand this team does NOT give teams too many good looks and they are often forced to take far less than optimum shots. In a way this helps offset the shot blocker issue. While we do not have the typical inside big man who can block shots and protect the rim, ODS is tending to to make other teams wish they had a smaller quicker guy to handle ODS. ODS seems to have finally figured out most guys trying to defend him can't. Some interesting contrasts between this team and many of Stanford' better teams in the past.
I've noticed that Stanford will often double team the opposing big man in the low post. That obviously has a risk associated with it. But, so far at least, it's proved to be pretty successful, forcing the opposing big to pass it out to someone along the perimeter. Stanford's players are generally quick enough to get at least a token hand in the face of the shooter. I can only assume that we'll double Kansas' 7 foot monster and have to hope that Kansas has an off-shooting night.