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[QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 5220729, member: 405"]
Sure, they were terrible from 3, but they only shot 22% overall.  We were obviously doing a lot of things right if they couldn't score inside the arc, either.

The only "open shots" were threes that were mostly outside their range, and were frequently contested.

They only scored 10 points on the fast break.  We got 23.
They only scored 11 points off turnovers. We had 21.
They only got 18 points in the paint.  We had 32.

They weren't driving past us for free layups.
They weren't outrunning us down the floor.
We got back on defense.

Our starting center played only 5 minutes.
Our other center, who was hurt most of last year had 9 points, 7 rebounds, a block and a steal in only 14 minutes.
Usually, smaller guys run circles around our centers in these types of games.

The only place they did well against us was offensive boards, but they only turned all those rebounds into 15 points.

Freeman was the weak link defensively, getting only 3 boards, and standing around several times when he should have been making a second effort.  Bell wasn't great, but wasn't terrible.

The other forwards - Petar, Davis and Lucas Taylor - did their part, getting 7, 6 and 5 rebounds in about 20 minutes each.
Starling got 5 boards from the guard spot in only 14 minutes.

I'm not sure that your expectations are reasonable at this point in the season, and I sure didn't see all the supposed breakdowns defensively that you did.

The numbers don't remotely back up your point of view, except for the offensive rebounds, and our secondary defense on those offensive put back attempts was not bad, since they got less than 1 point per extra possession.
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