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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 1938031, member: 40"]
General, you are the undisputed king of writing post-game summaries!  I love reading your insight / analysis.

One thing I'm scratching my head a bit about is your assessment of White--in particular, his defensive capabilities up top [I'm not going to get into it about the ball handling].  I actually paid a lot of attention to our zone up top yesterday, because we had several new guys and stuff to pay attention to: 
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[*]Gillon, who is undersized
[*]Battle, who was playing in his first collegiate game
[*]White, who was new
[*]Howard, who has size but who didn't excel defensively last year
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When you watched the top of the zone, I thought it yielded some interesting data.  Now, no defense is going to be impregnable.  And sometimes guys ware going to hit shots even if our player is in position to challenge the release, so I don't fault those kind of plays.  What is more worrisome IMO is when the zone slides late, or when guys are out of position, or worst of all when we give up wide open uncontested jumpers.  Would love to watch the game a second time, but my impression was that White gave up several wide open looks on his side.  Battle was athletic, but showed raw potential for zone.  And neither Howard / Gillon gave up too many looks [surprising].  I'm left with the same impression of White that I had watching his game film from Nebraska last summer, in that he is slow to move his feet and will struggle up top limiting penetrations and making his slides.  It isn't for want of athleticism, either--I think he's fine.  He just isn't wired to use his athleticism defensively the way that, say, Battle is.  White seems much more reactive defensively, which makes him a step "slower" than Battle in terms of making his reads and moving his feet.
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