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Message: [QUOTE="orangefan13, post: 145198, member: 906"] My two cents... This team needed to play better defense, not so much uptempo defense. We needed to stop their penetration a dribble or two earlier, cause some ball fakes, trap some more, cause longer passes, and get one hand out more when guarding. [B]We did absolutely very little of those things in the second half. And all 5 of those things are good for 6-12 points a game. [/B][B]Which leaves me as concerned as I have been with teams hurting us this year from the free throw line where they are averaging 4 more points a game then they usually do lately.[/B] [U][B][SIZE=5]That a total of about 30 points minimum. [/SIZE][/B][/U] On a plus though we did outrebound MU and on the offensive end as well ;). Of course hard not to outrebound on the ofensive end when you get hit on the arm and bodied without calls as much as we did (and the rebounding stats probably showed that story). [B]Thank God we made our free throws in that reguard.[/B] [B]THis year we are hearing the announcers say good ball fakes help beat the zone. Dissagree[/B] I think short quick passes without having to use ballfakes are more dangerous. Just my two cents though. [B]Building that confidence that the zone isn't tough enough to push you around its perimeters more. We didn't get that done.[/B] Of course good shooting is always a culprit to, and we need to be more valiant about the opposition cheating. [B]Pushing off with offhands, setting illegal screens, illegal boxing out screens in the paint and cheating with our bigs in the middle. 3 seconds becoming 8. Things like that matter Big Time[/B]. Especially to the oppositions confidence. Can't allow cheating and cheating is allowed through momentum. [B]Have to battle verbally about those things as a player but never get frustrated thats the coaches and fans job instead.[/B] [B]We won Im not upset but thats a long laundry list that adds up to about 35 points for us above. If you think those things don't matter then once someone plays basketball like MU did for two halfs against us we aren't going to be that good and could get a wake up call. And it will be on the defense more then the offense keeping it a close game.[/B] [B]IMO I hope our guys got a semi wakeup call about how underating the need for defense in 20 point leads against MU at halftime. [U]MU had us outscored by 15 points in the second half at one point. [/U][/B][U][B]That translates to a 30 point loss with two good halfs if we don't take that seriously backing up the stats I put out above.[/B][/U] [U][B]MU put up 47 second half points thats wayyyyy to many.[/B][/U] [/QUOTE]

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