If there was an Attitude All-Big Ten, he would have won that in a landslide. We were able to confirm that through a source very close to him that would know back in May. And then this past week at the Big Ten media day, we heard IU head coach Archie Miller say this in reference to a question about McRoberts being named a team captain of the Hoosiers. You know what I mean? I really mean that. The guy never complains.
I think just in the off-season, in talking to him, watching him work, he wants to get better.
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Does it sound like Miller is describing a player that is bitter about not being offered a scholarship? Winning Plays, or McFloorBurn if you prefer, strikes again. Better yet, you can just call him Captain. Whatever esteem you already held McRoberts in, and surely it was high, has to now go up a notch or two.
Or if it does, the team still comes first. He just grinds away every day at the game he learned to love again. No, a scholarship at this level is percent about merit, and again, there is no question whether McRoberts deserves it. When you start 17 games and are voted captain by your teammates, there is really no debating whether it is merited.
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No, the second year leader of the Hoosiers gets paid that kind of money to win basketball games. He gets paid that kind of money to recognize and utilize the unique talents of a guy like McRoberts. And he gets paid that money to figure out how to keep him going — despite not getting a scholarship, although that was probably the easy part.
Miller also gets paid that kind of money to go out and find diamonds in the rough like Fitzner — a guy that looked like an afterthought in May — and now appears to be on track to play a big role on this team. With a unique ability to stretch the floor at 6-foot, he might even make a push to start. This may or may not be a surprise to you, but the Memphis Grizzlies are a good defensive team. They have the 7th-best defensive rating in the NBA For all of the things they do well defensively, however, the Grizzlies have an obvious weak link.
Surrounded by plus-defenders or average at worst in the starting lineup, Z-Bo is the player that defenses will draw out and try to exploit. The rest of his measurements illustrate why he struggles so much on defense, however.
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These two teams started players opposite Randolph that left him in a mismatch where his defensive deficiencies could be spotlighted for all to see. First, Randolph was tasked with defending Shane Battier, traditionally more of a 3-and-D perimeter player playing for a small-ball Heat team, and then he had to guard walking mismatch Thaddeus Young who had an uncommon combination of speed and bulk.
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Young scored 18 points on 17 shots in 27 minutes, and it looked he was having the time of his life attacking Randolph from the perimeter. With rare agility for someone of his size and enough ball-handling and shooting skills to operate from the perimeter, Young was too much for Z-Bo to contend with in that matchup. Depending on the matchup, Randolph can usually score more on his mismatched defender more than they do on him. While Battier dropped three first-quarter threes on Randolph, he was completely overmatched on the other end as Randolph went 8-of-8 from the field for 17 points.
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The first two are rare examples of perimeter-oriented forwards that have the capacity to guard bulkier players through their strength and length respectively, while switching the defensive assignment of Randolph and a center tends to work well because Randolph has the bulk and the effort if not the height to muck it up with many centers. Not every situation is a mismatch that necessitates a switch or a substitution.
No matter what the Grizzlies do short of taking him off the court , there will always be ways to prey on Randolph anyway. The easiest way to abuse Randolph is by forcing him out to the perimeter.
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It was visible above, in the way that mismatched or small-ball 4s could score on him. However, ways to force Randolph from the paint go beyond unusual matchups like Shane Battier or Thaddeus Young. Pit any big man with range to feet or more of which there are many at the power forward position against Z-Bo, and things become difficult for him.
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It can be Chris Bosh, or it can be Draymond Green. By scheme but also by nature, Randolph gravitates toward the rim. It puts him in good position to offer help defense, but more than anything, he likes to rebound.
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Of course, the most exploitable way to get Randolph out on the perimeter and then go at him directly is the pick-and-roll. The Grizzlies like to drop Randolph back against pick-and-rolls as a way to limit the impact of his lack of agility, and instead give Randolph more of a cushion against oncoming ball-handlers. However, fast ball-handlers with a head of steam can keep going and get by him.