Not a knock on Samson, Ball or much improved Hassan, but it’s quite discernible that our secondary unit this year is not as strong and experienced as last year with veterans like Joey, Hassan, Alleyene and Clingan in both offense and defense.
I posted yesterday the weak link is our second unit.
I would double Diarra , everyone on the unit depends on him to create even Johnson . We need a secondary creator.to take the pressure off him .
Plus someone to make shots ,
With Castle at full strength Ball can hopefully step into that role but he is not creator. yet.
We certainly could have used Allyne . He could create his own shot plus take some me pressure off Diarra as he had a decent handle . Right know he can only use 8 in tight games . That’s more starter minutes than a coach typically likes.
We can attack on perimeter D because Clingan will only get better as a rim protector. So your 6’5” and you beat Cam big deal . Karaban might not have lift but he is much stronger than last year.
The only thing about the first 5 that concerns me is minutes .
If Clingan shoot‘s FT in the 60% Im not very concerned . He will score a lot of points plus with 4 options at crunch time there is no reason for him to be on the line .