I rarely have asked for public help with any of my teams, but I'm at a loss with this one after two games ending in losses to teams that as best I can tell, should be run out of the gym by my squad. This is the best team I've had in an otherwise unremarkable career at Northwestern, and I'm officially pushing the panic button after two games. Any sort of assistance folks are interesting in providing would be fantastic. It's always good to get an extra set of eyes looking at something as I am heretofore baffled with the team's performance.

Northwestern, Allen:

http://www.whatifsports.com/hd/TeamProfile/Ratings.aspx?tid=7025

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Thanks, dalt.

Here are a few quick thoughts.

Alexander is a little slow and no PER for my liking at PF, he may be better at C.

I might consider starting McIllwain, Vanhouten and Hord.

I would give Barnes some distro, his great ATH/SPD/BH/PA should make him a scoring threat (maybe even put him at -1 if he starts taking too many 3s).

Agree w/ hbmerlin's frontcourt ideas. Have Alexander backup the 5 and Grady the 4. I'd put Lindgren at the first backup for the 1 and 2.

Your team is committing far too many TOs to be competitive. Some of this is from having Vanhouten play SF, but it looks like your distro is too heavily reliant on about 3 guys. I have found for the flex to be effective, your shots have to be spread out more evenly among the starters and your top 1-2 bench guys.

Thanks for the thoughts, guys. Turned it around last night, but now face four ranked teams in a row. Worst schedule ever.