On D: What you will see is that when the ball goes up he bodies immediately and prevents the rebound from his man. Often this enables another player to rebound . Of course other times he is helping Creek, Hull and Jones whose man has gone around them and cannot body his big man. He also disrupts the point ( eg last game ) when they set picks on our guards and then has mucho grande ground to cover to get back to rebound. No body on the team , NOBODY, does this better

On O: He often begins the 1/2 court action with a screen away from the basket. if we shoot from there he is out of position. If we donot he is at least disruptive to their rebounders under the basket. He is a load to move and nobody moves him.

……………now if he could jump……….ball fake……..roll hard to the basket……..shoot the jumper….

IU has two groups of big men, slow and plodding (TP, Capo) and raw and uncoordinated (Bawa, Jobe). Even though Creek, Elston and Watford are over 6'7 or 6'8 their games aren't big men games. However, look at the rebounding stats, the top 5 rebounders in order are, Watford, Rivers, Elston, Creek and Jones. Thats also our best offensive team so far.

Why take out one of those guys and add TP, Jobe, or Capo? Neither of those three have shown the ability to rebound on a consistent basis and unless its a layup they haven't shown much on offense.

Anyway, a team's O and D FG, TO and Reb percentages are also effected by the strength of the opposition.

Getting a little geeky here. I'm scaring myself (lol).

http://www.insidethehall.com/2009/12/21/pick-to…