What is going on with Barro? No points against DePaul, subpar on Saturday, and now a 2-point, 4-rebound (if ESPN boxscore is right) performance against Nova? We need him to step up. That was troubling today.
The reason he was going on his scoring tear earlier and during mid-season was because the guards were looking for him when we would push it up the court. Now we haven't been doing that as much and he has been struggling in the half court sets.
All true but he has developed an amazing case of the butter ingers as well. Hard to score or rebound when everything bounces of your hands. Additionally he has scored alot in transition and we have not been getting those transition looks.
Quote from: drewm88 on February 19, 2007, 08:49:45 PM
What is going on with Barro? No points against DePaul, subpar on Saturday, and now a 2-point, 4-rebound (if ESPN boxscore is right) performance against Nova? We need him to step up. That was troubling today.
Ooze performed well when teams thought they could ignore him and focus defensively on James, Matthews & McNeal. When Barro started putting up numbers, the scouting reports showed that teams had to pay attention to him, which they did. Now Crean can adjust and give more opporunities for toe guards to penetrate once again--McNeal is a huge beneficiary of the attention that Ooze is now drawing.
Yup, ooze isn't getting as many points, but that's primarily because once he started getting regular double-doubles, teams figured out they needed to guard him. It's just another part of his game he needs to work on, and I think by next year (maybe by the NCAA tourney) the staff will have him ready with a few moves to score against tight defense.
As for fumbling passes, many of the passes he's been receiving the past couple games have been down near his ankles. It's not like he's receiving a ball right in his hands without any defenders around. Passing to him is getting trickier because of the defense against him, and again, he'll need to adjust.
Anyone in engineering:
Sum of the forces:
James+McNeal+Matthews=Win.
Take out one, replace with Lazar, Ooze can have a 20/10 game.
X+Y+Ooze=disaster because we haven't figured out how the offense works when Ooze is tightly guarded.