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[QUOTE="General20, post: 5240974, member: 724"]
Agreed. They didn't single anybody out.  To me that would mean they attacked Bell no matter who he was guarding. But they did the opposite, they ran their offense through Farmer early no matter who was guarding him, and Gillette late (same situation).

Bell was guarding Farmer because he is our best wing defenser.  Now, you can say Bell isn't  good enough to be our best, and I wouldn't argue with that.  This isnt a good defensive team.  But Bell got the hardest job and stuck with it because when Taylor took over he got fouled out in under 20 minutes by the same guy.

We do need Bell to hit shots. Precisely because we need to shoot well and score a lot most games because our D isn't good. This game was interesting in many ways to me.  In some ways it was our best game and in others our worst. Going to double OT with Youngstown St is bad, but the defensive rotations were undeniably better, unfortuthey  found ways to score anyway.  In the end what interested me most was that this team did have another gear they went to in both OTs (a couple fade away 3s and a couple unearned free throws cut the lead in the first OT but they were a level above).  This is good, they need to have a another gear now that they are up against better competition. Let's see if they can sustain it.
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