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Boese was a strong positive factor in this game. If anything I was hoping he would get more looks. There are still guys on this team that do not understand the energy it takes to compete at the Pac 12 level. Boese isn't one of them. You can look at a game like this and blame the loss on free throw shooting. You wouldn't be wrong. You could blame it on not keeping UW off the offensive boards and you wouldn't be wrong. You could blame it on our half court offense getting to stagnant trying to force the ball inside in the second half and you wouldn't be wrong. No team in this league has much margin of error this season. I haven't seen Colorado, Stanford or ASU, but I don't think there is a really bad team in the conference.
Mikalas: Your vociferous negative takes on Boese's game makes me really wonder why we hired such a dummy in Kent, who continues to play him over such obviously better talent.In crunch time, I saw Boese left behind in the dust, off the dribble.
And during the run the cougs made when down 10, Boese did nothing. The cougs made that run with basically 4 players, despite Boese. Boese was just there along for the ride. About no crunch time rebounds. No crunch time points. No crunch time assist. No crunch time defense, as he got badly beat off the dribble about 2,3,4 times in crunch time.
No taking charges during crunch time.
The only thing Boese did during crunch time, was hustle, effort, passing ball.
What Boese ' s weaknesses, is he is SLOW, unathletic, SLOW lateral movement on defense, gets easily beat off dribble, has to be able to hit 3 point shots at least semi consistently to be useful.
Boese ' s strong points, is that he has high energy, motor, hustles, has heart, is all floorburn team, passes well, doesn't turn ball over.
He plays FUNDAMENTALLY SOUND, POSITIONAL, BENNETBALL LIKE DEFENSE.
What I mean by that. Is there are some players who play good defense because of skill, talent, athleticism, speed, quickness, etc.
Some like Boese don't have talent, athleticism, speed, quickness to play defense, so they try to compensate thru hustle, being in the right position, spot at the right time, not thru talent, athleticism, quickness, but thru KNOWLEDGE, ANTICIPATION, ETC.
Now altho Boese plays good help side, team, positional defense at times, thru his knowledge, anticipation, etc, he does not play good defense, gets beat off dribble in crunch time, by faster, quicker, more athletic, etc players.
And that's a liability.
It's not enough to play positional defense, while getting beat off dribble because of lack of athletic, speedy, quicker.
What makes Longrus, King better than Boese, is that they are quick, fast athletic enough to play good defense, and can play positional defense well, and not get beat off the dribble in crunch time.
A "few posters" and Coach Kent, right?Boese is a D11 player. He negatively affects the cougs efforts. He is not a reasonable alternative. I still cannot understand why a few posters would rathe the cougs lose as long as Boese gets to play.That is complete madness.
Boese is a D11 player. He negatively affects the cougs efforts. He is not a reasonable alternative. I still cannot understand why a few posters would rathe the cougs lose as long as Boese gets to play.That is complete madness.
Enter Brett Boese. His shooting potential has been needed. He's still one of the few players that has shown he can consistently knock down 3s.I have been puzzled by our half court offense too. I think there is no question that Kent has upgraded us in terms of speed and athleticism. We can really get up and down the court, but too many late poor shots against the shot clock. It seems to me that we don't really have any drop dead 3 point shooters. Que is close, but just doesn't get in the flow of the game enough to be dependable. Suggs King and Ike are all good enough to keep people honest, but not the type of guys that can spot up and knock down 3s on a regular basis. Also with a guy like Hawkinson you have to get him all the touches you can. Against UCLA we had great off the ball movement and showed some inside out game. Not so much against the Huskies. On the other hand our shooting percentage is the best in years and we put up 95 against the Dawgs
I wonder why we aren't able to pull in a few 4-year transfers looking for another spot or are we in that market? If the high school 4/5 stars aren't in sight then I think they have to use some of the available spots on JCs.Recruiting is spotty at best, offense is so 1990's, defense is pretty much horrible. Next years monster class is not happening. We loose recruit after recruit and settle for folks with potential but not a single 4 or 5 star in sight.
Time to clean out a few more players. Suspect we will add 1 or 2 in the late period.
I wonder why we aren't able to pull in a few 4-year transfers looking for another spot or are we in that market? If the high school 4/5 stars aren't in sight then I think they have to use some of the available spots on JCs.