Last season, the Red Raiders were led heavily by two players, Andre Emmett and Kasib Powell. After an exhibition game in which four Raiders scored double digits, it may look like Texas Tech's offense will be a little more difficult to stop.
But distribution of points is not something head coach Bob Knight worries about.
"Scorers are gonna score," he said after a 100-61 win over EA Sports All-Stars. "Balanced scoring is immaterial if you win. I've never classified basketball as an equal opportunity."
Whether the scoring will remain balanced is yet to be seen, but Emmett led the way with 17 points and four rebounds; Emmett was selected as the preseason favorite to win Big 12 Conference Player of the Year by the coaches.
With seven new players on this year's squad, Knight said he has some figuring out to do for Tech this year. He was glad to see the younger players play well in Wednesday's game, but the hard part will be deciding who he plans to redshirt.
The General said he learned his lesson about redshirting players in 1978.
A year after winning a national title, he realized he lost two star players that would have been able to stick around another year if he had redshirted them. Then, a year after a national title he could have competed for possibly another.
One player Knight is glad he redshirted last season is Tanner Ogden. Ogden had eight points on the night and hustled to save balls from going out of bounds.
"Tanner is stronger than he was last year," Knight said. "Instead of having three years left he has four."
The defense shut down the All-Stars on a consistent basis. That was one aspect of the game Knight said he was happy to be that way. The All-Stars' scoring was balanced with 30 in the first half and 31 in the second.
The Raiders had 17 steals on the night, which led to fast break points, and All-Stars' coach Price Johnson said it didn't matter how his team played Tech would have won the game because of how well the Raiders looked on the floor.
"Every player on that team played good tonight," he said. "We knew exactly coming in that that's what you expect from a Bobby Knight team. If we had played our best game, it still would have been hard to win (Wednesday). (Tech) played very hard."
Knight was happy with his team's performance, too, but most importantly he got to do the things he wanted to with his lineups.
"We wanted to play everybody, and we were able to do that," he said. "I think win or lose we would have played everybody like we did because we got these new kids and that's the first time that they played in front of people...so it was important that we get to play everybody. And the outcome was pretty good."
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But distribution of points is not something head coach Bob Knight worries about.
"Scorers are gonna score," he said after a 100-61 win over EA Sports All-Stars. "Balanced scoring is immaterial if you win. I've never classified basketball as an equal opportunity."
Whether the scoring will remain balanced is yet to be seen, but Emmett led the way with 17 points and four rebounds; Emmett was selected as the preseason favorite to win Big 12 Conference Player of the Year by the coaches.
With seven new players on this year's squad, Knight said he has some figuring out to do for Tech this year. He was glad to see the younger players play well in Wednesday's game, but the hard part will be deciding who he plans to redshirt.
The General said he learned his lesson about redshirting players in 1978.
A year after winning a national title, he realized he lost two star players that would have been able to stick around another year if he had redshirted them. Then, a year after a national title he could have competed for possibly another.
One player Knight is glad he redshirted last season is Tanner Ogden. Ogden had eight points on the night and hustled to save balls from going out of bounds.
"Tanner is stronger than he was last year," Knight said. "Instead of having three years left he has four."
The defense shut down the All-Stars on a consistent basis. That was one aspect of the game Knight said he was happy to be that way. The All-Stars' scoring was balanced with 30 in the first half and 31 in the second.
The Raiders had 17 steals on the night, which led to fast break points, and All-Stars' coach Price Johnson said it didn't matter how his team played Tech would have won the game because of how well the Raiders looked on the floor.
"Every player on that team played good tonight," he said. "We knew exactly coming in that that's what you expect from a Bobby Knight team. If we had played our best game, it still would have been hard to win (Wednesday). (Tech) played very hard."
Knight was happy with his team's performance, too, but most importantly he got to do the things he wanted to with his lineups.
"We wanted to play everybody, and we were able to do that," he said. "I think win or lose we would have played everybody like we did because we got these new kids and that's the first time that they played in front of people...so it was important that we get to play everybody. And the outcome was pretty good."
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