Rambler303 wrote:
Ryan was huge this weekend, was excellent to see him round back into form. He is an important part of the rotation and we will need that scoring to advance.
Teams that play against LU are really tortured when Ryan is putting up 14+ points in a game. When he's seeing the ball go through the net: (1) He's sneaky and often scores daggers late in the shot clock, (2) he's a very competent 3-pt shooter so he opens up space for everyone else, and (3) he draws fouls when he's scoring because the other team has to turn up the pressure and he's very good at getting defenders in the air or in poor defending position.
In my opinion, he could have a big first Tourney weekend for us. Unlike Valley Teams that know us well, unsuspecting, over-confident Power 6 teams risk waking up to his potential after he's given us a lift of 10 or more. As they wake up to Ryan, then Norris, Kennedy, and Hall tend to find themselves with more time and space-- the two things that bring players up a level are more time and space.