Jive36
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St. Louis thoughts
Mini Rivalry?
This is a budding rivalry for the Bonnies due mostly to the A10 schedule makers. The last 3 seasons the SLU game has been the final game of the regular season and last year the rematch happened in the A10 final. Each of those regular season games a spot for the double bye has been on the line. In 2018 the Bonnies had the bye locked up but SLU could have gotten into a tie with SJU had they won the final game. Last year, 2019, was similar to this year in the winner had poll position on getting the double bye. And this year the Bonnies are in win and you’re in territory while SLU needs to win and the Friday games to break in their favor.
SLU Lineup/Key matchups
Its that time we all overreact to the A10 awards buzz and for SLU, Goodwin and French seem to be locks to make an all A10 team. Goodwin might have lost his first team status to a surging UMass team led by Tre Mitchell. But the real question is where does Javonte Perkins belong? I had him in a tight race with Ibi Watson, but over the last half of February Perkins has pulled way ahead and might have replaced French as SLU’s best chance to get a second all conference player.
Does Perkins play too many minutes to be 6th man of the year? He hasn’t started a game yet this season but has become the straw that stirs the SLU drink. French and Goodwin will get theirs in the paint and off offensive rebounds, but Perkins adds some shooting and can take over games.
SLU starts a jumbo package – Whenever Goodwin, French and Bell are on the floor together, combined weight of those three according to Kenpom is 715lbs hence jumbo package. That group almost outweighs our entire starting lineup. That is not to say these guys are slow plodding overweight guys (Bell maybe), quite the opposite they are dudes that must live in the weight room.
I don’t know how we matchup with that lineup. Winston will get eaten alive by either Bell or French in the post. I think you have to put OO on Bell to try to prevent foul trouble. Maybe we go zone against the jumbo package to keep help close by anytime French or Bell get it in the paint.
When Perkins comes in that usually means French is moved to the 5 and Bell sits. I think against this line up I would want to put Welch on Perkins and Winston/Bobby on Goodwin. Perkins would have a small height advantage but Welch isn’t afraid of guys that size. A lineup with Perkins and Jacobs or Weaver probably has enough shooting that zone would give SLU open shots. Event though SLU isn’t a great shooting team the way this season is going those shots will be dropping Saturday night.
Hack-a-Hasahn
French is only shooting 30% from the charity stripe in conference play. I honestly think the biggest error Schmidt has ever made with Bonas is not going to Hack-a-Hasahn earlier in the title game last year. I would go to this strategy anytime we are SLU is in the bonus and they go on a run or if we are down multiple possessions with under 5 to play. I called it Hack-a-Hasahn but Goodwin is only a 57% free throw shooter in conference play, so we can also go after him. However, Goodwin has games where he is locked in from the line. SLU has learned to counter this by being very aggressive getting offensive boards off missed free throws. Because both French and Goodwin are poor shooters and they are such key players for SLU they can’t sub both out at the end of games or just avoid passing them the ball because then you are playing 3 on 5. SLU does go offense defense with French some at the end of games to get him out in obvious intentional foul situations which is why I would go to the strategy early and often.
Additional thoughts to come, hopefully - SLU points off offensive rebounds and Bonnies on offense.
Mini Rivalry?
This is a budding rivalry for the Bonnies due mostly to the A10 schedule makers. The last 3 seasons the SLU game has been the final game of the regular season and last year the rematch happened in the A10 final. Each of those regular season games a spot for the double bye has been on the line. In 2018 the Bonnies had the bye locked up but SLU could have gotten into a tie with SJU had they won the final game. Last year, 2019, was similar to this year in the winner had poll position on getting the double bye. And this year the Bonnies are in win and you’re in territory while SLU needs to win and the Friday games to break in their favor.
SLU Lineup/Key matchups
Its that time we all overreact to the A10 awards buzz and for SLU, Goodwin and French seem to be locks to make an all A10 team. Goodwin might have lost his first team status to a surging UMass team led by Tre Mitchell. But the real question is where does Javonte Perkins belong? I had him in a tight race with Ibi Watson, but over the last half of February Perkins has pulled way ahead and might have replaced French as SLU’s best chance to get a second all conference player.
Does Perkins play too many minutes to be 6th man of the year? He hasn’t started a game yet this season but has become the straw that stirs the SLU drink. French and Goodwin will get theirs in the paint and off offensive rebounds, but Perkins adds some shooting and can take over games.
SLU starts a jumbo package – Whenever Goodwin, French and Bell are on the floor together, combined weight of those three according to Kenpom is 715lbs hence jumbo package. That group almost outweighs our entire starting lineup. That is not to say these guys are slow plodding overweight guys (Bell maybe), quite the opposite they are dudes that must live in the weight room.
I don’t know how we matchup with that lineup. Winston will get eaten alive by either Bell or French in the post. I think you have to put OO on Bell to try to prevent foul trouble. Maybe we go zone against the jumbo package to keep help close by anytime French or Bell get it in the paint.
When Perkins comes in that usually means French is moved to the 5 and Bell sits. I think against this line up I would want to put Welch on Perkins and Winston/Bobby on Goodwin. Perkins would have a small height advantage but Welch isn’t afraid of guys that size. A lineup with Perkins and Jacobs or Weaver probably has enough shooting that zone would give SLU open shots. Event though SLU isn’t a great shooting team the way this season is going those shots will be dropping Saturday night.
Hack-a-Hasahn
French is only shooting 30% from the charity stripe in conference play. I honestly think the biggest error Schmidt has ever made with Bonas is not going to Hack-a-Hasahn earlier in the title game last year. I would go to this strategy anytime we are SLU is in the bonus and they go on a run or if we are down multiple possessions with under 5 to play. I called it Hack-a-Hasahn but Goodwin is only a 57% free throw shooter in conference play, so we can also go after him. However, Goodwin has games where he is locked in from the line. SLU has learned to counter this by being very aggressive getting offensive boards off missed free throws. Because both French and Goodwin are poor shooters and they are such key players for SLU they can’t sub both out at the end of games or just avoid passing them the ball because then you are playing 3 on 5. SLU does go offense defense with French some at the end of games to get him out in obvious intentional foul situations which is why I would go to the strategy early and often.
Additional thoughts to come, hopefully - SLU points off offensive rebounds and Bonnies on offense.
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