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That was certainly nice to see!

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Lots of guys played from the bench, in both halves. That was great to see.
Didn't seem like people were forcing shots. Griffin can certainly get buckets.

Our defense was pretty good. Big improvements. Those young centers look like deer out there. But at least they played hard. Anselem didn't play as well as one of his prior efforts. JBA throws himself around out there, but isn't really making plays. Today was Jesse's game up front. The forwards rebound pretty well. Quincy dominated the first half.

The team looked really good. BC isn't a terrible team, but we were a bad match up for them today, and if you lay off us on defense, well, we're going to score. A lot.

And Dolezaj, of course. If the announcers want to call him "one of the best passing big men in the country", I'm not going to argue. And it's good branding for him. Another stat stuffer.

The team really had better spacing with Buddy back. He opened up things for a lot of guys, particularly Joe.
Joe only took 1 truly terrible shot this afternoon, and JB took him out when he air balled it from 30 feet. Kudos, coach.

I'm starting to like this team. We hopefully play consistently over the next 3 games, which if we play well, we should win.

Then two ranked teams, UNC and Fla State. We might get to 7-1 before we hit that rough patch. That would be really nice for a change. Let's Go Orange!
 
There is no stud, number one guy, in the top 7 rotation, but there are no number 4 or 5 guys either. Everyone plays like a 2 or 3 level guy which is pretty good. Everyone can dribble (without doing it off of their foot), pass, and CATCH THE BALL - which is why the offense is watchable again after 4 brutal years.

Lots of guys played from the bench, in both halves. That was great to see.
Didn't seem like people were forcing shots. Griffin can certainly get buckets.

Our defense was pretty good. Big improvements. Those young centers look like deer out there. But at least they played hard. Anselem didn't play as well as one of his prior efforts. JBA throws himself around out there, but isn't really making plays. Today was Jesse's game up front. The forwards rebound pretty well. Quincy dominated the first half.

The team looked really good. BC isn't a terrible team, but they were a bad match up for us today, and if you lay off us on defense, well we're going to score. A lot.

And Dolezaj, of course. If the announcers want to call him "one of the best passing big men in the country", I'm not going to argue. And it's good branding for him. Another stat stuffer.

The team really had better spacing with Buddy back. He opened up things for a lot of guys, particularly Joe.
Joe only took 1 truly terrible shot this afternoon, and JB took him out when he air balled it from 30 feet. Kudos, coach.

I'm starting to like this team. We hopefully play consistently over the next 3 games, which if we play well, we should win.

Then two ranked teams, UNC and Fla State. We might get to 7-1 before we hit that rough patch. That would be really nice for a change. Let's go Orange!
 
There is no stud, number one guy, in the top 7 rotation, but there are no number 4 or 5 guys either. Everyone plays like a 2 or 3 level guy which is pretty good. Everyone can dribble (without doing it off of their foot), pass, and CATCH THE BALL - which is why the offense is watchable again after 4 brutal years.


Good observation. Most of the new guys have pretty good hands. A bunch of them know how to put it in the bucket, too.

Bobby Braswell can't seem to buy a shot, but he got a couple more rebounds out there today, and played some decent defense.

When this team shares the ball and moves without the ball on offense, we can be pretty good.
 

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