His moves are slow and lack explosiveness, making him easy to defend. His best move is the quick baby hook but he's rarely used it this year and especially in conference play.
Basically BRE has the coordination of a high school bench warmer but the height of a D1 athlete. His top end 'speed' is fine for running the floor but he lacks quickness/explosiveness. Maybe more importantly his decision making is wretched. I wish there was a stat for it but EVERY time Bob puts the ball on the floor something bad happens. There literally should be a rule against dribbling the ball, and if he doesn't initiate a post move immediately it should be kicked out. He lacks a natural feel for the game, forcing too many shots and having an insanely high failure rate in doing so.
Defensively the lack of quickness and anticipation cramps our defense. We rely heavily on switching and closeouts and BRE is poor at both, on the first one that's being able to guard off the switch. His foot speed is so slow that it often throws our defense into a tailspin, the Mizzou game and 2nd half at Tech being prime examples.
This isn't some freshman we play because we need and think he will develop and come around. An unathletic, uncoordinated big is exactly what he is. That's not BREs fault as I think he's busted his ass to make himself better. The fault is with the coaches for playing someone ill-equipped to contribute at the Big 12 level that many minutes.
He will never "get that down". Why? If he was capable he would have already.
