UFC and pride, I concur with your assessments after watching on the game on ESPN+.
We don’t have the mid range jump shots that Cohill used to make when he pull up from his drives towards to the basket. Our power forwards also had difficulties in scoring near the basket comparing to our guys from last year.
Let us be really, we played against a d3 team and we had trouble defending their outside shots. We also should not have given up 70+ points to this team.
As for Rush, I am encouraged that he finally broke out of his shooting slump. However, having said that, we need to point out that most if not all of his shots were uncontested. If you recall the first two games, he was unable to make those shots when he was well defended. We will find out if he has regained his shooting when we face other d1 competitions.
At this stage, we are not even close to last year’s team. We had 4 solid players (including Rush) in last years team.
Excluding Rush, who do we have for this year in comparison to the other 3? Langdon is pretty good, but he is not Cohill, Q or Perry. He can’t takeover the game like those guys when things are going well.
We need to make lots of progress for us to be competitive with the top 4 league teams let alone winning another league championship.
Just my thoughts….