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Re: Kentucky Wesleyan Basketball
My only complaint on Bezold is that he is reluctant almost to the point of refusal to shoot the ball when he's around the basket. I imagine it's a product of being only 6'3" and not being comfortable trying to score down low, not to mention getting a few blocked back in his face early in the season. The staff needs to work with him on going up strong with the ball down there, as more often than not he would be able to at least draw a foul, if not score.
How about some props for Cameron Seaton? Kid hardly played the first half of the year. Then the last two games he's come in off the bench and provided the spark to really get us going. Those three 3's in a row he hit last night were absolutely huge, especially with our 3 top guards not shooting well.
On a side note - anyone know what's up with Cameron Cartwright? Wasn't dressed for the second straight game, and was noticeably limping.
Last night the first half was pretty darned ugly. I don't know when you're ever going to see Bell, Goetz and Dixon go 0-13 in a half again. But it wasn't just them, Mayot had a couple of layups rim out, as did Arisha if I'm remembering right. I didn't think we were taking bad shots at all, they just weren't falling. Had we shot our normal percentage in that half we probably would have been up more like 40-19 at the half, but you're going to have games like that sometimes. I AM concerned about our free throw shooting. Until the last 2-3 games we were pretty automatic at the line except for Mayot. Now we've got guys like Goetz and Bell that are struggling there. I'm not sure if it's a focus thing, or if they're not practicing free throws as much or what, but they need to figure that out as the last thing we need is to lose close games because we can't hit free throws this year.
After the game Cooper made mention that subjectively the goal for this year is to make the conference tournament (with hopes of making some noise once they get there). I received some backlash on here for stating that I felt that is an attainable target a few weeks ago. Well, at this point we're 4-2 in the conference. We've got 14 more conference games to go. Granted, we do still have to play the top teams, but I do still feel like we've got a good chance to land in that top 8 at the end of the conference season. I don't feel like saying it out loud puts undue pressure on the team. If we make it there, we make it. If not, we fell a little short. Not the end of the world! It does give them a target to shoot for, which is never a bad thing.
My only complaint on Bezold is that he is reluctant almost to the point of refusal to shoot the ball when he's around the basket. I imagine it's a product of being only 6'3" and not being comfortable trying to score down low, not to mention getting a few blocked back in his face early in the season. The staff needs to work with him on going up strong with the ball down there, as more often than not he would be able to at least draw a foul, if not score.
How about some props for Cameron Seaton? Kid hardly played the first half of the year. Then the last two games he's come in off the bench and provided the spark to really get us going. Those three 3's in a row he hit last night were absolutely huge, especially with our 3 top guards not shooting well.
On a side note - anyone know what's up with Cameron Cartwright? Wasn't dressed for the second straight game, and was noticeably limping.
Last night the first half was pretty darned ugly. I don't know when you're ever going to see Bell, Goetz and Dixon go 0-13 in a half again. But it wasn't just them, Mayot had a couple of layups rim out, as did Arisha if I'm remembering right. I didn't think we were taking bad shots at all, they just weren't falling. Had we shot our normal percentage in that half we probably would have been up more like 40-19 at the half, but you're going to have games like that sometimes. I AM concerned about our free throw shooting. Until the last 2-3 games we were pretty automatic at the line except for Mayot. Now we've got guys like Goetz and Bell that are struggling there. I'm not sure if it's a focus thing, or if they're not practicing free throws as much or what, but they need to figure that out as the last thing we need is to lose close games because we can't hit free throws this year.
After the game Cooper made mention that subjectively the goal for this year is to make the conference tournament (with hopes of making some noise once they get there). I received some backlash on here for stating that I felt that is an attainable target a few weeks ago. Well, at this point we're 4-2 in the conference. We've got 14 more conference games to go. Granted, we do still have to play the top teams, but I do still feel like we've got a good chance to land in that top 8 at the end of the conference season. I don't feel like saying it out loud puts undue pressure on the team. If we make it there, we make it. If not, we fell a little short. Not the end of the world! It does give them a target to shoot for, which is never a bad thing.
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