Miami Biorhythms -- Noon Start

[superrific]

I think it's fair to say that the biggest surprises this year were: 1) getting nothing from Cade; and 2) RJ going from ACC POY to one of the least efficient players in the league. He's got to have the most missed shots in the entire conference, or close to it. He's scoring 17 a game on 39% from the field, 31% from 3. Those are Caleb Love numbers.

We knew going into the season that we were going to struggle at the C position. But we've managed to cobble together enough decent play in the front court that we could easily be top 20 if RJ was last year's RJ and we were getting even 12-15 mpg from Cade with something like 38-39% from 3 point range (he shot 46% last year).

 

[Heelsandeers]

He was playing 20-25 minutes per game early on. He was giving us nothing, other than the Kansas game. He was making stupid plays, fouling too much, committing TOs, terrible shot selection. There's a reason his PT went down. In the 20 games following the American game, he had 3 assists against 17 TOs.

The issue wasn't going away from him after a slow start to the season. It was going completely away from him at a time when the alternatives weren't better. And arguably, they were worse. There is a fairly large middle ground between starter 25+ mins and 3 mins a half (or less)

The Drake at the 3 lineups were rating better than other lineups as early as January. And IIRC, the Withers/Lubin pairing was one of the few positive front court combos at the time

Only a few ways to get Drake at the 3 and HD didn't look to it until a full month later, only after getting absolutely blown out, and continuing to fumble around with the same small lineups again in the following game

 

[Calheel]

I think it's fair to say that the biggest surprises this year were: 1) getting nothing from Cade; and 2) RJ going from ACC POY to one of the least efficient players in the league. He's got to have the most missed shots in the entire conference, or close to it. He's scoring 17 a game on 39% from the field, 31% from 3. Those are Caleb Love numbers.

We knew going into the season that we were going to struggle at the C position. But we've managed to cobble together enough decent play in the front court that we could easily be top 20 if RJ was last year's RJ and we were getting even 12-15 mpg from Cade with something like 38-39% from 3 point range (he shot 46% last year).

The way Cade is shooting FTs this year makes it hard to believe that he was ever a good shooter. He looks so uncomfortable on the free throw line. Good 3FG% shooters (better than 40%) tend to be at least 80% from the foul line. Cade is barely over 50%. He has lost all confidence in his stroke. That air ball 3 against Miami looked like something I'd shoot in a game.