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Interesting - not sure why I have the opposite take on inbounds. I have memories of it leading to nothing or times especially at crucial moments where we have straight turned it over.I don't agree with the take that Jon is bad at inbounds plays AT ALL. I felt the success rate on those was incredibly high and was probably the most effective thing he did coaching-wise. 'Late response but there are many things Scheyer hasn’t coached well. I think a particular weakness of his are inbound plays and end of half/end of game situations. At the end of game today we looked clueless as what to do on offense. These weaknesses to me in discrete situations infers that he’s not strong tactically.
I also think Jon is slow to adjust to certain game plans like Zona sagging off Mitchell. Two other teams copied that exact formula in the games after and there was no counter to it. State did it again today and we got lucky Mitchell hit a couple 3s because otherwise it was quite effective. Maybe because it’s sticking with his guys to show that he trusts them? I don’t really know.
Last, I’m also starting to get concerned with player development. Obviously there have been some good successes in season like Lively last year but now I don’t know if that is frankly him just getting back from injury given how well he’s doing in the league. Our sophomores have been thoroughly disappointing. Not a single one is demonstrably better and/or more consistent than last year.
Obviously Scheyer has done well in other parts such as our over all defensive improvements but the three things I mention above are not small issues to be solved.
Fair post. The points in the first two paragraphs are very reasonable. I’ll have to chew on them a bit.
I think the questions around player development will be answered when Dereck Lively and potentially Jared McCain wind up being the only meaningful NBA contributors from Jon’s first two teams.
The end-of-half stuff I can agree with. And I'm not going go back and analyze an entire season's worth of inbounds plays, but I'm very convinced the results would back me up on the success rate.