I'll say it again. It's not the offense as much as it is the fact that we are still missing certain parts of the offense. The biggest think we are missing is a low post scorer. A guy like Gathers that Lavin was trying to land was supposed to be in that mold. Now we are also without Sanchez which compounds the issue. The other thing we don't have a shooters beside D'Angelo. One last thing is that we haven't had Branch ie. a PG until now. He will be good at the PG spot, but is just getting his feet wet.
1) new PG
2). Very young team with limited shooters
3) no low-post scoring threat
All three things are surefire recipe for stalled offense. Why is there not as much motion in the offense as we'd like? Simple. Everybody besides D'Angelo is afraid to shoot. Nobody wants to come off a screen and shoot because they know they'll have to if the ball comes to them. Jakarr doesn't mind shooting but he has become very hesitant and lost his mojo a bit.
I think people complicate the issues. Lavin had success with this offense with Norm's guys because we had s lot of upperclassmen but we also had guys that could do the things we are missing now. It took adding JC players like hardy and brownlee to do it. We had several guys like hardy, Horne, brownlee and DJ who could hit shots and developed their game over 4 years. We could play hi-low with Burrell, Evans and Brownlee.
We might not have had as much overall talent but we had a few years of experience under our belts as well as added players to the mix like Lavin will undoubtedly do over next 2 years. Need our personnel to get experience over the next few and add some shooters and low post guys.