Thought this deserved further discussion! How about Dominguez with a couple easy shots inside the 3 point line, as well as driving in and finding the open man. He only shot 4 three's and 3 two's along with 3 assists, including the lob to Vinson.

A nice adjustment to people playing suffocating defense on him up top. I think we can see a lot of teams giving him the lane to dribble, especially playing high on screens. It'll be interesting to see his all around game continue to grow!

I do think there's a lot of things that worked in this game that won't necessarily work later so I hesitate to draw too many conclusions. Texas sucks on defense, the only SEC team worse than them defensively is Oklahoma.

But Dominguez expanding his game is good to see because teams have to shift their defense to account for him. Get a team out of their defensive routine and things should open up if you can take advantage and move the ball quickly.

I was wondering about that. I don't think he became a European pro just standing behind the arc (maybe he did), so I expect as he gets more comfortable we may see other aspects of his game.


I think some of that also may just come with increased team chemistry. Guys will figure out what lineups they need to step up and do a little more in. We have some lineups that just seem real passive, like they're all waiting for somebody else to do something. It seems that way to me anyways.

bobinator said:

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I do think there's a lot of things that worked in this game that won't necessarily work later so I hesitate to draw too many conclusions. Texas sucks on defense, the only SEC team worse than them defensively is Oklahoma.

But Dominguez expanding his game is good to see because teams have to shift their defense to account for him. Get a team out of their defensive routine and things should open up if you can take advantage and move the ball quickly.

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I don't think he was trying to open up his game. They were trying to cover him to prevent 3 pt shots. So he was taking what they were giving him.

Hell, he is 6'6". Needs to shoot way more 2's when it's there, versus passing. Be our Luka.

Problem with his twos is they he's not athletic at all so he struggles to get shots up around the basket in most games.

He is like the one player I'd give a yellow light in the midrange though just to draw bigger defenders away from the basket.