Everything evolves around making some open shots

[Vols8086]

Barnes is a defensive coach, that’s what he wants, so far it has produced quite a few wins and this year it’s doing the same...would I like to see us be better offensively? Sure. Would making some changes come at the expense of some defense? Maybe. Iowa is much like us, but reverse, elite offense but horrendous defense...they also have 4 losses...much of our fan base seems to be fixated on offense while dismissing the fact we have an elite defense.

Our fan base is fixated on finding a solution to the weakness on this team. Which in this case is the offense. I haven't seen anybody dismiss our defense or act like our defense is an issue. I would imagine Iowa fans are discussing fixing their weakness as well. That's kinda how this works.

 

[cncchris33]

Fulk has also been playing hurt majority of the year, not sure how that has impacted things. Again, not saying some criticism isn’t fair or that we couldn’t be better, but I do think that if we take care of the ball and shoot free throws well (things we normally do) that our offense is going to be good enough on most nights to win us a lot more games than we lose.

We have the #1 defense but #71 offense, Iowa is 13-4 and has the #1 offense and #117 defense, maybe their board is campaigning for them do make major defensive changes? And I have seen quite a few posters claiming Barnes ditch the motion offense, which would be a wholesale change IMO.

Were they intelligent posters?

And when I suggest being open to changes, I don't mean totally scrapping the motion offense from the playbook for eternity. But if you know it isn't working for this particular group of players, then maybe you find something that suits this group better. Then go out and recruit players who fit that motion offense and bring it back if it is the preferred option.

 

[bleedingTNorange]

Were they intelligent posters?

And when I suggest being open to changes, I don't mean totally scrapping the motion offense from the playbook for eternity. But if you know it isn't working for this particular group of players, then maybe you find something that suits this group better. Then go out and recruit players who fit that motion offense and bring it back if it is the preferred option.

I guess I just want to see more, prior to last nights game the offense was trending up and we were just outside the Top 50 nationally in offensive efficiency...we laid an absolute offensive dud last night which looked horrible, if that continues to be the trend ok, but imo I’ve not seen enough to demand philosophical changes offensively.

Again, if we had done the things this team usually does last night (free throws and take care of the ball), we win a game we were favored by 3 in by double digits and have a solid offensive showing...even with the ugly shooting percentages.