Agree with you here, Lovell. It's kind of odd too since Rose's style of play is supposed to be more of a free-flowing transition type offense, but unless we're on a fast break our passes, especially to Trent, were always the same, which made us very easy to scout. Trent always got the ball with his back to basket posted up. It usually came from a little spin pass from Cummard or Murdock. Trent would than back down a bit and do some weird looking hook.
UNLV saw this and noticed Trent has a hard time making that weird looking hook from anything further than 5 feet from the basket. Since they are considerably smaller than Trent, their answer for defending him was to simply move Trent further from the basket. They did this by pressuring our guards at half court. Since our guards stunk they picked up their dribble too early and were caught at half court and then had to pass to JT or Lee who were now past the arc. To help Lee and JT, Trent shifted out further too, putting him out of his range. He can't make baskets further than 8 feet out. It was a very ingenious plan by UNLV.
What's frustrating is not only were our players unable to adjust and get out of their routine, but Rose failed to come up with a counter take. As much as I like Rose he stinks at making adjustments during games. I don't know if he just doesn't see it or if he just can't put together plans to counter other teams' onslaughts. Whatever the reason it's a major reason we lost games this season and I think our biggest obstacle to success.[/quote]
If this is true, it may be more important to fix this than whether Trent stays or not. It appears that adjustments need to be made to get past UNLV and the first game of the Ncaa's. At this point the other post players are not at Trent's level but if the system were to improve they may become much better.
I would also say again that the team needs a take charge guy like Danny Ainge. A lot of you have written about quarterbacks that have "it". That's what the BB team needs. He may be on the team now if one of them steps up next year.
