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[QUOTE="Dick_in_MI, post: 159827, member: 225"]
I guess that's to be expected following the first loss of the season and especially expected from SU fans.
 
You can talk about Fab's impact, the old man vs zone discussion, why MCW didn't play, rebounding (an especially valid point of discussion) but in the end, shooting was the bottom line for the loss.
 
We shot 35% for the game. It's even worse than it sounds because we 1) missed a ton of gimme's, and 2) [U]we took 33% more attempts from the field than ND did[/U]. A hidden point is that they shot lights out from behind the arc but the fact is also that we sucked from behind the arc and took 40% more attempts than they did.
 
It all comes back to shooting.
 
If we had connected on a mere 5 additional baskets, we'd have won the game. That's 5 additional missed bunnies. 5 additional 12 footers, whatever. Additional 3's would have made the outcome even better.
 
5 additional 2 pointers would still have given us only a 43% average vs their 50% but we'd have won the game.
 
We had our shots. We had 13 more attempts than they did. We missed from all over the court; from behind the arc, from 12 feet, and from point blank range. You can microanalyze everything else but in the end this was the story IMHO
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