Bench Scoring

[79Warrior]

Our bench scoring was absolutey horrible. Zero points until Cubes hit a three well into the second half.

[chapman]

As I posted in the other thread, the bench players are not entirely to blame.  Part of the problem is the lack of agressive play/lack of talent from the bench players; the other part is the unstructured offense just encouraging the Big Four to press too hard and not involve their teammates.  We lack talent, but there's no reason shooters like Acker and Cubillan and a slasher like Butler should get 5 shots in 51 minutes while McNeal takes 23 in 33 minutes.  You're not going to win games going 4 deep against 12 deep.  If it means McNeal and the other three actually stop and run an offense instead of going for the 1 on 5 break, then it's for the better.  Even though they're one dimensional, there's no reason we shouldn't expect at least one, if not two bench players to hit double figures on any given night.  Instead of 8% of the shots, they need to be involved in the offense, maybe taking 20% of shots.  You can't take a team seriously when there are only two players who are going to legitimately shoot the ball on the floor once a couple of bench players come in, meaning it's time to involve the bench players, and it's time they shoulder some of the load draw some attention away from the Big Four.

[strobl2]

Someone needs to step it up off the bench. Cubie came in and hit that nice three but other than that the bench was pretty much silent. I think if butler, fulce, Cubillan and acker contribute then we will be a much better team. Jerel, Wesley, Lazar, and Dominic will be much better if the other team has someone else to worry about then just them.

[texaswarrior74]

During the second half they showed a graphic on the TV broadcast about bench scoring, at that point it was 41-0 in favor of Dayton!