Jennings gets MRI on sore foot, will miss at least one game

that simple. Or sometimes the simplicity is of a different nature. :)

In my only-sometimes-humble opinion, we’re shooting terrible because were getting mediocre shots. I have 2 hypotheses for why the shots are mediocre.

1. Skiles runs a mediocre offense. Great coach on defense; not so great on offense.

2. We don’t consistently have aggressive ball movement., and I don’t see Jennings creating that kind of ball movement. As much as I like his potential, as much as I think it’s reasonable that he has to grow on the job, I suspect that he’s currently so-so at running our offense. (I think Dooling and Boykins are worse.). I would love to see what happens to all our bad shooters IF we had a savvy, great-vision, creative PG. No idea how that might happen. Except for a trade that would likely be costly.

3. Ooh, there’s a third. On that other list, a couple weeks back a Hoosier poster named Epicurus suggested that decades of observing hoops had led him to think that teams that worked very hard on defense suffered at the other end of the court. Could be.

You cordially suggested “simplicity” as a yardstick. My simplicity is that it’s easier to “blame” one very young and somewhat head-strong point guard who seems to lack all-court vision than it is to blame a whole roster of veteran shooters who are shooting nowhere near their career norms.

If our roster had a real PG we might settle this. But we don’t.