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Message: [QUOTE="CuseTroop, post: 229014, member: 47"] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Calibri] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Calibri]DG- I understand that you have only lost two games, but ive seen games where you were down, and you sort of unleashed the guards if you will. You have this ridiculous bevy of athletes, your point, your 2, your 3, your 4 really, and you go back to MSG against Vtech and Stanford you pressed, or even fast forward to the garden against cincy and you nearly came back and won the game with your press. Have you given thought, as teams try to slow you down and take you out of your transistion game, have you thought about turning up the pressure earlier in the game?[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Calibri]JB- well, Our press has been good at times, as you point out. There were two or three other games that we tried to use it ND is one that comes to mind and they scored 28 points on lay ups, attacking our press. So I think the press can be a weapon, but you have to be careful, if your playing a really good ball handling team that wants to get pressed I think that can hurt ya. For example florida, a good pressing team. They didn’t press us because they know we are pretty good against pressure. I think it really depends on the situation, I think we can press, its not our strength. And the other thing I would say, 24 of the games we won people held the ball against us, including good teams :Lville, cincy, gtown. We were able to win 24 of those types of games. So I think we can win half court, as well as we can win full court. The one advantage we have had all year, weve been getting out rebounded by about 2 ½ boards a game, but we have forced 6 more turnovers a game. So we hope we can continue to do that. That would help us in terms of how many possessions you have. Theres no question this hurts our team a little bit, but were gonna try to overcome it with everyone else playing a little bit better. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Calibri]DG- philosophically I’ve heard coaches say ‘we take it one game at at time, we have ashville’ but you’re a human, you look ahead at the possibles, you have Kstate, really good rebounding team, Martins a former huggins assistant, they nearly beat you at your place when you didn’t have fab melo, is that in your mind? [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Calibri] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Calibri]JB- Well, your right, they almost beat us, but they didn’t beat us. And WVs coming back just a few weeks from beating Kstate. I don’t go that much by comparative scores, and I’m really not thinking about beating Kstate, because we need to think about what were doing next game. But I’m confident that this team can rebound enough, and do enough to take care of what we need to. Your right, we have been outrebounded a lot this year, but we’ve won 31 games. So it hasent been an issue. Could it be an issue? It could be. If we don’t force those turn overs, and we get outrebounded, then that will be a problem. But im hopeful that wont happen [/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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