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[QUOTE="DCUNITED13, post: 5224441, member: 7985"]
Was impressed by Bell's play.   As someone pointed out a very quiet 20 points.  Also impressed by Freemans offensive game.  I wished we had gone though him every time in the first half when we were down.  However, this is a big change from JB to Red.  We play a different system.

Regarding our shooting.  This years Taylor has a worse release than last years Taylor.  We shot the ball poorly due to not having good penetration and kick out.   Bell and JJ had open looks when that happened late in the 2nd half.

Regarding our passing.  Carlos had 1 turnover but I saw a few passes that he caused the TO by not delivering the ball to the right location of the person on the pass or bounce.  He needs to get better delivering the ball.    Inside passing was good, wondering if we can get Freeman closer to Lampkin when both are on the court in the offensive set for an easy give an go in the lane.

Regarding our defense.  Part I  ==> After years of bitching about the ineffectiveness of our zone, I take it all back.  LOL   Perhaps it is having 5 players on the court that we did not see last year.    One thing that i did not see is (and can someone confirm for me) is Did We Play Zone Defense when opponent was inbounding under our basket?

Regarding our defense.  Part II ==>  What,  I guess we are like the Denver Nuggets of the 1980's  with Alex English and Dan Issel.  We will outscore you and damn the defense.  Not sure I can handle a full season of this.

Disappointed we did not score 90.  We had 81 with about 5 minutes to play and our offensive sets became nonsensical.  Not sure if it was due to JJ or Carlos.  We really need to tighten our offensive sets.  Could be we pulled Freeman due to defensive issues late in the game and impacted our flow.   We had open looks with Taylor from the 3 late in the game.  Bell should have been in that position instead.

GO CUSE
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