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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 159022, member: 27"]
Losing Melo accentuates our weaknesses; defensive rebounding and half court offense.  Cooley was a man among boys tonight, Christmas and Keita are not ready to play big boy basketball yet and made a decent inside player look really good.  When he played last week against Drummond, he had his shot blocked 8 or 10 times and was awful.  The same thing would have happened had Melo made the road trip.
 
Disappointed with the offense.  Some panic, lots of forced shots, little patience, no one willing to set picks or run plays.  Lots of one on one, over dribbling and stupidity out there.  Thought we were a smarter team than this.  Everyone contributed.
 
While I am disappointed with the offense, I am really disappointed with the defense.  Worst effort of the season by far.  Yes, everything ND threw up there seemed to go in, no talent guys who cannot shoot were dead eyes, etc.  but to me, the lack of interior defense and help was horrific.  Credit to ND for doing a good job attacking the zone.  But everyone on the team and Keita and Christmas in particular have to show up, man up and at least try to get rebounds.  I got physically sick watching Keita hide under the basket away from Cooley everytime there was a chance to get a rebound.  Hope both of these guys watch this film and decide they are going to compete the rest of the season.
 
Was this our last conference game ever in South Bend?  I think so.  I do not believe I will miss the place.
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