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[QUOTE="DCUNITED13, post: 5603944, member: 7985"]
I believe this game demonstrates how much we have missed Donnie Freeman in the lineup.  We have no consistent scoring threat on the inside and looking at this game we do not feed the ball to the post as a set play.   Difference between mid-majors and P4 is that generally guard play may be even but Big Men at P4 level have more skills on offence.  We do not have that in White and Kyle.  (I like them both by the way).

We had to drop down as Kyle was not able to get the interior shut down.  White was taken away from the post requiring a drop down from one of our 3 guards leaving 3 point shooters open or limited pressure.  This was an extreme game where matchups really hurt us.

We can say all we want about making FT, but being a fan from 80s on, FT will not get better this season.  I think we should shoot for 365th place in FT and win 22 games.

Again, we are missing a big piece of our lineup in Donnie.   Maybe he is not a shut down defender, but having at 6'10" Power Forward assisting the center and having White instead of Anthony guarding someone on the outside is a huge difference.   We will continue to have problems stopping teams on defense until Freeman is back 3-4 games.   I do hope we get him back next week.

Another concern I have is that outside of our JJ, Nate & Nate, we do not have players that played major minutes last year.  (including William Kyle).   We may see a drop in performance as these players hit a wall due to extensive playing time.  It take a while to get used to the full season routine and many time we saw drop in performance come late January/early February.

Lets get back to full strength by Clemson and see what happens.  I would love to get to the NCSt. game with a nice winning streak.

GO CUSE
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