After being an Omari Moore-centric offense last season, San José State will have a new way of scoring this season.
In the Spartans’ 72-64 win over the University of California, Irvine on Tuesday, four players scored in double digits — Trey Anderson (19 points), Tibet Görener (17 points), Myron Amey Jr. (12 points) and Alvaro Cardenas (11 points).
SJSU head coach Tim Miles said this season, scoring will be more by committee rather than having a single player take majority of the team’s shots.
“This is going to be a balanced team,” Miles said. “It’ll be good for us to understand how we have to adjust. And it'd be good for me to understand schematically.”
A big question for the Spartans coming into this season was if they could replace the production of Moore, who averaged 17.4 points per game last season.
Anderson looks to be taking Moore’s spot at small forward, but the scoring will be spread around the court this season.
“I know that the guys need me to score it and you need to be more aggressive,” Anderson said. “I think it was just my mindset coming into the game. I need to do more. I need to be here for my guys.”
The Spartans were missing two of their projected top scorers on Tuesday. Sophomore guard Garrett Anderson and junior forward Robert Vaihola are out with injuries, but are on track to return later this season.
“I think what's fun to see is integrating some of those newer players into the system,” Miles said. “They accept tough coaching, and I believe in them and you could see that translates into winning basketball and that permeates into these younger guys too.”
