In Reply to: Re: Persective posted by Cachorro on January 11, 2026 at 13:31:30
good point about Dent. We bemoan his poor shooting this season - and it's clear and unarguable to this point - but we should also celebrate his development of far superior ball control and protection and improving defense. Get Clark back in there beside him giving us three ready to play guards and it's a start.
Tyler's just challenged with a lack of lateral quickness. Seems a terrific young man, very nice guy, works hard, always tries but as you have pointed out, he sits and our team's situation improves. Play ONE of him and Eric Dailey at a time and start with Dailey. Defense improves. Rebounding improves. Get Brown out there more minutes. Movement improves. Rebounding improves.
This team is just built wrong for a Mick Cronin team. They will do what they can and we will root for them but once Mara transferred out the writing was on the wall. (And his 22 minutes a game would help a lot but wouldn't answer all the needs.)
Hoping if Dent can maintain his improvement in ball security (far, far fewer turnovers as in 7 assists and zero TOs yesterday) and hopefully continuing to improve his defense, that will enable him to relax more and bring his shooting and FT shooting back also as the season goes along. It's not as if he hasn't done that before.