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[QUOTE="PeteCalvin, post: 5250278, member: 439"]
Just a couple things that stuck in my craw last night:

1.  Why no zone?  It was clear that Williams was going to back our guys down and score at will.  We needed to mix it up a bit.  I agree with whoever said we should have seen the Highlander at least once.

2.  Red stuck with his “back up” line up way too long in the critical point of the game.  He should know better that to do that in a must win game. By the time he brought Lamp, JJ, and Donnie (?) back in, we were down double digits and cooked.  JB doesn’t do that.  Ever!

3.  Where was the help defense on those isolation plays?  They burned us over and over, and yet we did nothing.

4.  Lampkin had two solid baseline drives to the hoop for what should have been layups, and he allowed himself to get stripped both times.  That can’t happen when you’re that big and strong.  Don’t bring the ball down!  Same thing happened to Petar.

5.  That stretch where we gave up the two three pointers in a row to McMillan was the turning point.  Horrible defense.  We never quite got back in it after that.

6.  Too many freshman mistakes by Donnie and Choppa at critical junctures.  Donnie had some stupid fouls. Begs the question why we don’t have Davis playing in a game that seemed tailor made for him.  Big body against big bodies.  Williams isn’t bullying him.

Red’s got a lot to figure out.  Only real positive  is that we didn’t get blown out and the overall defense did seem to improve.  Definitely some things we can build on for the season, but we needed to win one of these games to help avoid the bubble.
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