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[QUOTE="suttree, post: 1615005, member: 710"]
This entire thread captures a great deal of my frustration with watching the game last night--and really, most of the season.  It's like Tom Crean is controlling us remotely.  Our offense is either painfully torpid or devolves into freelancing when the players panic or feel rushed--and you're absolutely correct about the disparity in physicality.  Another bewildering issue:  our picks seem to accomplish almost nothing, whereas it seems that our opponents routinely rub our guys off successfully.  Some of that has to do with being anchored in the zone vs. MTM freedoms, but there are lots of teams that manage to set picks just fine against man D.  This way-overextended D we've seen from Clemson, SJU, and others is going to continue until we force/get some hand check calls and/or (preferably) have someone besides G (and sometimes MR) who can blow past his guy and force the chaos and opportunities that come from switches.  Clemson seemed well prepared not to go for our up-fakes.  The book on us must be easy and obvious by now.

I usually like agreeing with fellow counsel JOC, but I'm unhappy this time about joining him in seeing a low basketball IQ in our current team makeup.  Can't get over how KJ has failed to progress, and even regressed in some senses; he looks utterly terrified out there and plays hot potato or just goes east-west for the most part.  I'm hoping that an improved Lydon/Howard/Richardson group, plus Battle and Moyer, will give us the snap that we seem to lack so dreadfully this year.  It's been utterly brutal to watch so many stretches of game so far.
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