Manhattan – The Kansas state basketball team learned of the hard on Sunday, what life looks like without Coleman Hawkins on the ground.
With Hawkins, their attacker of everything that is sidelined by a knee injury, the Wildcats fought powerfully at the two ends of the ground against an Arizona State team that they had already beaten on the road , falling 66-54 to the Sun Devils de Bramlage Coliseum.
It was the third consecutive defeat for K-State (13-14, 7-9 Big 12), which saw its thin hopes for an NCAA tournament during the offer. The fact of not having the versatile Hawkins of 6 feet 10 inches leading the traffic on the offensive and the defense proved to be too much overcome.
“I had the impression that we had to change what we were running in order to ensure that the other team would put two on the ball,” said K-State coach Jerome Tang, who went to A smaller alignment with the CJ Jones back -up leader to take Hawkins’ place. “We tried to put things that looked good about the film and that looked good in practice, but I had the impression that our guys were shooting photos that were not in rhythm.
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“They were good shots. They were open plans, but we had learned from where we are going to get our photos, and how we will get them, and then it was a little change. It was just difficult to Turn is quite fast, and it’s not on our players. “
Tang said Hawkins’ immediate prognosis is not good. He injured his knee last Monday during the defeat of the Wildcats 74-69 at UTAH.
“He is not close, as far as I understand,” said Tang. “When Luke (Sauber, team coach) said and (the doctor) tells me, I know him.
“Until then, I continue every day as if we don’t have it.”
Hawkins is unlikely to play on Wednesday when the Wildcats will go to Orlando to face the center of Florida.
Hawkins, which raised an average of 11.7 points, 6.4 rebounds and 4.8 assists in a team in the conference game, is often used as a facilitator in the attack position. But against a larger range from Arizona State, the Wildcats had trouble obtaining clean looks on the basket without its interior presence.
“It was a kind of enormous adjustment. We are generally playing out of the post, and we have played a good game from the position lately,” said Jones, who finished with 10 points during his first Big departure 12. “So, just trying to understand how the four guards will work in the future and see what is the next thing we are going to do.”
Stronger David N’Hessan, who fueled with Hawkins in advance, accepted.
“A large part of our offense takes place in Coleman, so it was definitely an adjustment,” said N’Guessan, who has always found a way to score 20 points and take 13 rebounds. “But he is injured at the moment, so we have to find another way to put more points on the table.”
Defensively, Hawkins is closest that the Wildcats have a rim protector with almost two shots blocked per game.
“It provides so much that you do not see on the statistics sheet,” said Tang. “Organize guys, talk through things, invent things with its length by obtaining deviations.
“We only had seven deviations in the first half, and part of this is that we are so few there, so that’s something I have to look at.”
Arne Green is based in Salina and covers the sports of the Kansas State University for the Gannett network. It can be reached at granted@gannett.com or on x (formerly twitter) at @arnegreen.
This article originally appeared on Topeka Capital-Journal: Kansas state basketball is missing Coleman Hawkins against Arizona State
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