You know, I try to watch our opponents play to gauge their potential play against us. Its been challenging for me to see how our opponents will play us. For example, VT played really poorly against WVU and they got their shorts handed to them - but WVU played in-your-face M2M and pressured them. We don't, and rarely, ever do this against opponents, only when we're down. This limits our D to force turnovers and get into our opponents heads. What we have done well in the past is execute the 2-3 zone well, but this year our 2-3 is not at the level it has been and it allows opponents to find the weaknesses/gaps and then adjust to them.
GT isn't a great shooting team, but Georges-Hunt is pretty darn good at driving and finishing at the rim. If our guards can keep him from driving into the paint we can limit their offense. I think we can rebound with them but I do think that Rak may get into foul trouble here as GT is aggressive here (Cox and Mitchell seem to crash the boards from what I've seen). As the 2-3 will often do, it will make our opponents take a bunch of outside shots and if we can face guard jump shots and don't allow them to hit 3PTers with any regularity we can defend them well. I think Rak should get his points and even get their inside players into foul trouble, which would benefit us on the boards as they will less likely be as aggressive.
Okay. That's my synopsis. And as I said from the first two sentences I'm just shooting snot outta the nose - you guys are better at analyzing the opposition but I'm trying to get a feel for this sort of analysis. Why? Because its fun, yo!
