J.D. McKell

BYU fan. Eye doctor. other stuff.

[J.D. McKell @TrueBlueEyeDoc]

@conservmillen It is a different Gospel than what you believe, but it doesn't make us not Christian! Protestants and Catholics also believe differently than each other, as does each sect of Christianity, but they're still Christian 🤷🏼‍♂️

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@jsnshep

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@GBSHansO 22 for me!

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@BYUSportsNation

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@SethDavisHoops It's like a Picasso painting: college basketball is beautiful in its own way, even extremely valuable and successful, but it sure is messed up 😂

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@BYUGuy87 AND offensive coach... Their sets are so fluid and the ball moves so well, including their ability to utilize screens properly...

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@Elijah_Bryant3 Add to that it's just not beautiful basketball, watch a team like Utah State that has offensive schemes that shares the ball, moves the ball, has cuts and screens that get people open, it's just so much more fun to watch, nobody can deny that! Us last year was even way better 🤷🏼‍♂️

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@Elijah_Bryant3 @AJ_Dybantsa You can argue against what I'm saying, but you're defending decisions didn't even allow us to lead for more than 22 seconds, let alone losing us the game! And that isn't just offense, it's also terrible ability to play screen defense, too. We need better schemes, period.

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@Elijah_Bryant3 I get playing through him, yet ONLY playing through #3 lead to playing losing basketball when it mattered most. It's exactly what Texas wanted. Play through #3 while others cut and screen for each other! Also screen for him more often with a shooting threat! ...

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@Elijah_Bryant3 @AJ_Dybantsa I don't disagree that more schemes can create indecision. I'm arguing for different schemes, not more. In regards to more options, there's no way having another option like a skilled/physical 7-footer that can make a 3-footer consistently wouldn't have helped.

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@Elijah_Bryant3 @AJ_Dybantsa And I think not having a skilled big man in the post really hurt for spacing, especially with no threat to score down low; teams could easily double off of big-man screens cuz our bigs couldn't do squat with the ball once they got it, & lobs didn't work the 2nd part of the year.

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@Elijah_Bryant3 @AJ_Dybantsa It's the offensive and defensive scheme and a lack of a skilled/physical big man that was our downfall this game, even this season. No ability to utilize screens properly on O, and poor pick-n-roll screen defense. Defer to AJ on O, no movement, no fluidity, no confusion created.

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@Elijah_Bryant3 @AJ_Dybantsa Umm it was still a problem when those three played together... Our defense was just as bad with Richie, and sure, our offense was better, but not enough ball movement and poor screen usage the entire year. Our shooters couldn't consistently make anything outside of those 3.

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@PotterColton It was more the system than anything else... Injuries certainly contributed, but we've had poor defensive schemes each year so far, and this year the offense was to defer to AJ and sometimes Rob or Ritchie, creating a lack of empowering players to shoot confidently.

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@cougjazzstan @PostJimmer Agreed, I really was afraid we would waste AJ's year because of people talking about us like what happened with LSU and Ben Simmons or KSU and Beasley. I was hoping it wouldn't happen to us, but in the back of my head I was worried it would somehow, and it came to fruition

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@cougjazzstan @PostJimmer I bet their numbers at practice are incredible and sufficient for shooting well, just had tons of mental pressure on them in games to make or get benched, except Moo and Rob cuz of the other things they did (defense for Moo, ball-handling for Rob).

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@cougjazzstan @PostJimmer I think we have good shooters... I think Moo is a good shooter, I think Kostic is a good shooter, I think Mrus is a good shooter, same with Rob Wright. They just didn't get empowered to shoot with confidence. No rhythm, yanked immediately if you miss. It's partly systemic.

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@For3JT Please tell the coaches they need to learn how to utilize screens on offense and defend screens better on defense. It's because of those two deficiencies that we couldn't get open in-rhythm 3s for our role players, and why our defense sucked much of the latter half of the year.

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@tlacomb On top of that, terrible defensive scheme for most of the season, too, and why the freak can we not recruit an actually skilled and physical 7-footer to BYU with Burgess on the staff? It's ridiculous.

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@tlacomb Actually, they took a 21-20 lead after that funky start. Maybe the team just wasn't that great this year. Poor offensive scheme - only deferring to AJ (or sometimes Rob), essentially zero ball movement, and not empowering shooters to be confident in shooting. It's bad coaching.