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[QUOTE="Niastri, post: 5581714, member: 722"]
This place is a hard place to hang out after a three game losing streak.

After being encouraged by the team performance against Houston, I was less happy about Kansas. I wonder how much was fatigue and Freeman's absence, but we have those collapses all too frequently where we give up a run and turn a close game into a big loss. At 6:02 in the second half, we were down 50-52, and it looked like we might manage to come back from a devastating loss the night before and win. We didn't score again until 2:44, to narrow the deficit to 53-63... The game was lost in those three minutes of let down.

At half time against Iowa State, we were down  34-35.  We lost the first four minutes of the second half 20-4. A close game turned into a blowout. Fatigue and Freeman being injured don't make that happen, there are systemic issues of some sort.

I don't think it's the roster or conditioning.

There was a lot to be happy about within the individual games, but more bad than good.

I think we'll be much better later in the season for the quality 5 halves of basketball we played  against top teams. We need to figure out how not to give up those big runs in critical games.

I think we have the bodies to "almost" beat top 25 teams when we don't have Freeman. I really hope he's able to come back this year.
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