Official SMU/Tulane thread

[SMUer]

I hate to dog on the kid because he's clearly giving it his all but Samarrippas has maxed out his upside. You aren't going to get anything more out of him and he was a marginal D1 player to begin with. Put in Ryan Manuel, live with his ups and downs and pray his ball handling/body control continues to improve. You're exactly right, having someone who is a threat to drive will absolutely get Nyakundi more open looks, which if shooting is the only thing he is proficient at, you might as well exploit fully. At this point, I'd keep Clinkscales and Patsevich as foul-trouble/emergency reserves only. They've shown me nothing in games. Mix-and-match Williams with Cunningham, Jones and Smith until you find a combo that begins to work sufficiently well enough to give us an inside presence. At this point our offense consists of passing around the arc until time runs out and we jack up a prayer long-two or three. We should be constantly distributing the ball inside and outside, that's the freaking point of the Princeton, to slow things down and open up looks/lanes.