Any of our athletes can slash, if they set their mind to it. You just go ... you just work at it. Too much we exclude it from our options. (Now finishing with a basket was our too frequent disappointment.) However, letting inadequate attacks on the basket continue all season is a coaching shirk. When driving-in is properly practiced, you get fouled frequently. Getting foul shots (gotta make a high %) yields points, getting fouls called can hamper or eliminate the other team's best players. In our games box scores, it's 90% of the time that the opponent has a guy shooting 10 FTs. This team is/was harmed by what they didn't try to do. (They did not learn to use the glass to dampen their inside shots. They rolled it on the rim or clanged it on the rim. The blocker always fronts between shooter and rim.) Standing outside, bouncing it chest high emboldens the defense, gives them time to align their "prevent". Coaches should have transformed that out of their "style". It was a "I don't know what to do" signal - a back-off style.
The most valuable slashing occurs by many without the ball. That's what gets defenders colliding, stumble-chasing.
I hope these new stars coming in increase our energy, our "go-for-it" attitude. White doesn't seem a "go-for-it" coach.
Anyway, if the new stars are just the additions we're missing, then it will show by putting on a more varied attack, a more balanced attack. Always movement with a planned IQ purpose. We're all looking forward to it.
BTW, how are the newcomers at defensive play? Better overall BBall-IQ would help the good players we have.
So, Grow Gators ! Grow coaches !