'I don't know if your mind ever turns off when you do this for a living,' Lloyd said Thursday, after the Wildcats wrapped up pre-Christmas play at 12-1 with a 93-68 win over Morgan State. 'But I'm definitely gonna kick…
Bruce Pascoe For Arizona coach Tommy Lloyd, a four-day Christmas break is about visiting family, relaxing and what he calls a list of"things to chew on.""I don't know if your mind ever turns off when you do this for a living," Lloyd said Thursday, after the Wildcats wrapped up pre-Christmas play at 12-1 with a 93-68 win over Morgan State."But I'm definitely gonna kick back a little bit.
Their offense is second to none...Not only are the Wildcats scoring more points per 100 possessions than anyone in Division I, but they’re also leading the nation in 2-point field-goal percentage and overall"effective" field goal percentage at 60%. In raw stats, Arizona scores the second-most points per game, behind only James Madison .
Tubelis not only leads the Wildcats in scoring and is second in rebounding to Ballo but also, at 6-foot-10 forward leads Arizona in steals with 14. Many of those turn into dunks on the other end, most vividly the one he swiped away from Morgan State’s Isaiah Burke on Thursday. Other strategies such as ball-screen coverage decisions can affect a defense’s perimeter performance, too.
Overall, Lloyd said the Wildcats have a"lot of room for growth" defensively, especially after they figure out exactly how they want to allocate their resources on that end of the floor. In just his second game of the season after the NCAA held him out for three early games, Ramey had 12 points against San Diego State while hitting 5 of 5 3-pointers.
And, while averaging the eighth most assists per game in the country, junior point guard Kerr Kriisa hit six 3-pointers against Utah Tech and Montana State. He posted his second career triple-double against Southern. In Arizona's bigger games, the story has been much different. The Wildcats' reserves, including Henderson, averaged just 12.3 points over three Maui Invitational games. They scored just seven at Utah and zero against Tennessee.
"At some point, you’ve got to go for it," Lloyd said."To see the young guys come along because we're gonna need them. I’ve been continuing to say that and I think they're getting a little bit closer." Then the Wildcats went out and, among other examples, took 27 trips to the free-throw line against a hard-nosed team from Tennessee on Dec. 17, their biggest win of the season so far.
Kriisa said he picked up the technical against the Bobcats for complaining"in the heat of the moment" about Larsson not getting a call, and apologetically described Lloyd’s firm message to the Wildcats afterward.
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