Well, I think Rose has some blame for this. Most of the season who did he have starting and playing most minutes in the post? Worthington. He should have been developing the others and letting them play. But, here’s the catch. The weave offense has no post play involved. Even if the post players got the ball and took one dribble and passed back outside we would get a lot more easy drives to the basket and open outside shots. The offense is one dimensional and teams at half time take advantage of this if they have good coaches and the players to do it with and Pepperdine did.
The fact is, every team in the WCC can match up with us and over-power us in the paint. It’s hard to believe that our post players haven’t gotten better with at least a drop step and baby hook finger roll. Or, an up and under. And, simple things like blocking out so the refs don’t call the fouls for swatting at a player tipping in a missed shot.
We live by the 3 and die by the 3. It’s pretty simple and it happens when we get winded at ends of games. Haws is real good in the first half of games. But, has no stamina for the end of games. He has to sit on defensive plays.