He at times tries to do too much and spends a bit much time jawing at the opponent too. That can lead to a player getting in their own head which sets up for failure vs. thuggy teams like Iowa that send out ringers.
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He at times tries to do too much and spends a bit much time jawing at the opponent too. That can lead to a player getting in their own head which sets up for failure vs. thuggy teams like Iowa that send out ringers.
I agree, criticism toward Haliburton is almost completely unwarranted.
Last season he had a usage rate of 9.2% in 33.2 minutes/game over 35 regular season games. He's at 20.8% in 35.3 MPG to start this season. Anyone that thought he would maintain the same scoring efficiency and turnover rate as last year was dreaming.
He's been pretty dang impressive to start the year and is the engine that drives this team. If Conditt keeps improving quickly like he has and some better team shooting can spread the defenses out more then we can have a real fun Big 12 season.
Is it fair to say he's at times careless with the ball and a jump pass is a high risk situation?
Ripping and being critical are 2 separate things. A scout's report on Haliburton from that UMKC game would mention the things that are being said on this board.
I'll preface this by writing that I didn't see the game myself, and SIAP, but I have to wonder if our relative struggles against UMKC (not a bad team in their own right, it appears) are due to Hali having his worst game of the season so far, at least based on assist to turnover ratio (7- 6, I think?)
It is fairly surprising that he would have 6 turnovers against a team from the WAC, but if nothing else I would rather have him have that kind of game in the non-conference season in a "buy" game instead of in Big 12 play.
Well good thing is no one is "ripping" him. And since when are future/current NBA players above criticism? Some of you on here need a safe space version of CF where nothing critical is ever said about anyone or anything.
They were a very physical team, (almost a half-court defense version of WV in that they would foul on pretty much every possession.) Bodying Haliburton up is definitely going to be a strategy for teams going forward.
And now to say something positive on Haliburton. The play set that has him post up his player, and as he backs down said player, Solo sets a pick is going to eat teams alive this year. Brand new ball screen motion close to basket. (Will be even better with Conditt as the lob pass will be a little easier.) Haliburton draws the weakside defense to the ball and nobody is there to help with the roller.
The last few games, Prohm played Tyrese off the ball occasionally and ran set plays for him. While I think its tough to take the ball out of his hands, he's our best offensive player and there are going to be times we have to get creative to get him his shots. Prohm did similar with Monte, he freed him up for his almost automatic baseline jumper pretty often. I'm not saying we do this every trip but it'll be necessary when we NEED a bucket.
Another factor is, Tyrese seems to shoot best from 3 when shooting from the corners, gotta find ways to get him those shots with his feet set. When we are struggling, we should be running plays to get him these types of shots. We can still play through him, even if he plays off the ball.
3 of his TOs were unforced - stepping on the out of bounds line
2 were from driving into traffic and getting the ball stolen
the others were from crazy passes
Yes. Well, I think so. I mean, hopefully she is still in the crawl space when I get home.
Oh calm down, I was half joking. Tyrese has fallen a little too in love with the hook- and jump-passes.
But until we start making shots and figure out how to play defense, the only way we’re going to beat anyone half-decent is for Tyrese to go all Russell Westbrook.
