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Message: [QUOTE="hoopsupstate, post: 5224354, member: 13"] When we play good guards we’re toast. Our perimeter defense is awful. How will we stop guards like the two we’ll face in our first ACC game at ND? Those two guys will score at will. Lampkin has to play off on the perimeter. Force bigs to shoot. He can’t defend players off the dribble. I want Red to explain our defensive philosophy. JJ is one of the poorest defenders I’ve seen with all the athletic ability he has. His footwork is worse than any high school player I ever coached. I’m not sure what his issue is. It’s unexplainable how bad he is in his defensive stance. He doesn’t slide his feet. He runs next to the player. He can’t stop anyone going right and he can’t go left. He made some big drives late and when he gets a step going right he blows by defenses. How can a kid with his size, strength, and explosiveness be that bad on defense? I can only surmise he’s not being held accountable in practice. Get the bricks out and do defensive slides all day. He seems like a great kid, but Red seems to coddle him. Taylor is very good defensively, but what the heck is that jumper? He should be throwing the shot put on the track team. All I can say is OUCH! I hope Chance comes back healthy because we really need his defense. I was shocked how LeMoyne‘s guards went around Carlos in the second half last night. They just took him in the lane and torched him. Theres no sugar coating this teams defensive play. There’s not a starter on this team that can consistently guard ACC players. They couldn’t guard LeMoyne. This team may have to play zone. That’s even scary. What‘s difficult to figure out is that we’re athletic enough, but just can’t defend. Coaching has to be questioned about their ability to coach defense. This is year two and it’s worse than last year. Bring Tony Bennett in as a consultant for one week and there would be a huge improvement. The wrong team won last night. LeMoyne deserved to win. They outplayed us most of the night. Our bigs just wore them down. Kudos to their coaching staff for the fight they put up. Kudos to SU for finding a way to grind out a game they could have easily lost. That might be the biggest thing to take away from SU is that they grinded out a win when they couldn’t shoot the entire night. That is encouraging. Red has a great teaching tool for this team on defense. Just watch the film. This makes the Colgate game even more interesting! [/QUOTE]

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