Jordan Brenner
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But it is something that worried me, and we've seen it
they, yes, have made a commitment to get in the paint more.
I don't think they've said, like, don't shoot threes if you're open or you have the shot.
I still think they want them to take open shots.
That's what I'm seeing.
It's just what they're running and what it's generating, the first option is trying to get something at the rim, I think.
Now, it's bully ball with a twist, right?
Because they're still...
four or five out.
They're still using their centers largely as passers and facilitators from the high post.
And they really do a beautiful job of constantly cutting, screening, moving off the ball.
The number of backdoor cuts they get per game is like... Oh, yeah.
Like, it's... Like, they get more in a game sometimes than I feel like we saw, like, out of some Coach K teams an entire year, right?
Like, it's a very different...
It's a very different style.
I think, and you kind of heard, I forget which interview this was that Shire did, but when he was talking a little bit, and they talked about this during the game against Pittsburgh, about Isaiah Evans' shot selection, right?
I think they want guys taking the right threes.
And I do think they're willing to live with a lot of misses from three if it's the right three.
I think it's got to be frustrating to coach Isaiah Evans a little bit because...