Portal Recruiting and Roster Updates

Chairman of the Board said:
Shoot better than 39% overall would be a start. That is the product of crazy fade away jumpers and dumb shots.
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Yes, I agree that his overall FG% was poor, I think he shot lower in 2 pt range than from 3. Maybe I am wrong, but I would describe him as a good shooter based on his 3 pt numbers but not a great playmaker based his poor numbers inside the arc. Shooting seems to be a strength in my judgment but shot selection and trying to create for himself inside the arc are weaknesses.
 
InChristAlone said:
Yes, I agree that his overall FG% was poor, I think he shot lower in 2 pt range than from 3. Maybe I am wrong, but I would describe him as a good shooter based on his 3 pt numbers but not a great playmaker based his poor numbers inside the arc. Shooting seems to be a strength in my judgment but shot selection and trying to create for himself inside the arc are weaknesses.
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I agree that conference play is most important, but his season shooting average, including NIT play, is significantly lower.
 
zone2poke said:
I agree that conference play is most important, but his season shooting average, including NIT play, is significantly lower.
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He actually went 5-10 from 3 in the 2 NIT games, 3-5 against Davidson and 2-5 against Wichita State. The last 4 conference games of the regular season he was 13-27 from 3. He really struggled in the Big 12 tournament (1-9 in 2 games) but I am encouraged by the fact that his 3 point shooting numbers improved throughout the year against stiffer competition and that he finished pretty strong. He went just 9-32 from 3 in non-conference at the beginning of the year.

Would be interesting to see what he could do off the ball as a spot up shooter. We would lose some height defensively playing him at the 2 but if we bring in a long PG, Clary could guard the 1 and the PG could guard the 2.
 
Also keep in mind Clary was dealing with a shoulder injury all non-conference. He didn’t even play in the pre-season due to the injury. Go back and watch tape and you’ll see he’s wearing a bandage on the shoulder. Later in the year it’s only KT tape. Then the end of the year he was finally healthy.
 
InChristAlone said:
Yes, I agree that his overall FG% was poor, I think he shot lower in 2 pt range than from 3. Maybe I am wrong, but I would describe him as a good shooter based on his 3 pt numbers but not a great playmaker based his poor numbers inside the arc. Shooting seems to be a strength in my judgment but shot selection and trying to create for himself inside the arc are weaknesses.
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He thinks he's a shooter in that he is taking these really difficult shots early in the shot clock and he's not good at it, but he didn't stop doing it.

Aside from shooting, he also dribbled away 15-20 seconds off of way too many possessions without anything productive happening. I agree that he might be better off the ball if he can spot up.
 
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Chairman of the Board said:
He thinks he's a shooter in that he is taking these really difficult shots early in the shot clock and he's not good at it, but he didn't stop doing it.

Aside from shooting, he also dribbled away 15-20 seconds off of way too possessions without anything productive happening. I agree that he might be better off the ball if he can spot up.
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His job as a point guard is to run an offense that works together to get high percentage shots. I didn't always see that, and judging from Coach's reactions to his play, I wasn't the only one.
 
I don't recall Lutz ever talking about culture. I hope that he has spent some time thinking through the core values of his program and will have some basic standards required of the guys that he will bring in. I thought that whenever he was hired that he was a no nonsense guy that would steer the ship. That didn't seem to happen last year. I think maybe he overestimated his ability to take some talented guys and make them mesh and that backfired. We need to get the right guys from the jump.

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I think (ok, hope. really, really hope) that all of Clary's numbers will improve with better players (? - again, hope) coming in. Think of all the wild driving misses he accumulated because the lane was packed; having only a couple of other streaky options led to entire defenses collapsing inside. If we can spread defenses out with several other high percentage scorers, even if they're 8-12 ppg guys, Clary should get much better looks.
 
InChristAlone said:
I don't recall Lutz ever talking about culture. I hope that he has spent some time thinking through the core values of his program and will have some basic standards required of the guys that he will bring in. I thought that whenever he was hired that he was a no nonsense guy that would steer the ship. That didn't seem to happen last year. I think maybe he overestimated his ability to take some talented guys and make them mesh and that backfired. We need to get the right guys from the jump.

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Good read. Dusty May started out wanting to emulate Bob Knight but patterned his demeanor after Brad Stevens. Good choice. Also interesting stuff about whether a team has the personnel to be a switching defense.

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“When we turn the ball over or miss a shot, we never look over to the sideline and see one of the coaches throwing a fit,” Cadeau said. “They’re just all calm because they understand that we understand the mistakes that we made. There’s really no reason to react crazily.”

“We’re fortunate because we are learning that you don’t have to be a d— to be successful,” Boynton said, “You don’t have to demean your players. You can find joy in the work, and then it makes the joy and the success of that work much more impactful.”
 
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