SWC75
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- We let two opportunities to get unexpected wins slip away and now we’ve let a game we expected to win slip way. If this continues, we won’t be expecting any wins at all.
- Clemson won this game because we had no interior defense at ll. Every time the ball got into the paint or to the baseline, a lay-up or dunk was virtually automatic. Clemson had 40 points in the paint to our 18 and was 20 for 35 ((.571) on two point shots to our 11 for 28. (.392) And next we face Brice Johnson, who just had a 39 point 23 rebound game against Florida State. He could easily to9p those figures against us from what I saw tonight.
- In the first half, our offense was at its dismal worse: nothing but ring-around-the Rosie, with the ball never penetrating the arc unless someone made a separate drive late in the shot clock. We shot 10 for 33 overall and 4 for 156 from the three point line, which was easily guarded because Clemson didn’t have to worry about anything else. They just guarded us the way you would guard a team who needed a three pointer to tie in the finals seconds: everyone at the arc, each guy finding a man and making sure he was guarded.
- Which is ironic because we faced the exact situation at the end of regulation. Not only did we not foul to put them on the line, (which everybody was talking about on the post- game call in show), but we trapped, leaving a guy open for the tying three pointer. Why would you try to force a turnover as the risk of an open shot when it’s 61-58 with five seconds left?!?
- DaJuan Coleman in three ACC games: 45 minutes played 3 for 7 from the field with no free throw attempts. 6 points, 8 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 steals and block with 4 turnovers and 11 fouls committed. Opposing centers and forward s are 30 for 55 on two point shots, (virtually all of which would have been in the paint and 20 for 26 from the foul line. We’ve been outscore din the paint in these games 62-104.
- Tyler Lydon hit a three late in the game but was 1 for 6 from the field and often reluctant to shoot, (which means he’s less likely to make it when he does). We have to get him more involved in the offense and that’s hard to do when he just camps out in the corner. He’s attempted 13 shots in 98 minutes in ACC play.
- Kaleb Joseph played 5 minutes, had a rebound but no assists and was 0 for 2 from the field. No progress at all.
- For all our problems if Trevor Cooney’s three pointer at the end had fallen, we win. And if his three pointer with 9:48 had counted, we’d have won in regulation. We inbounded with 2 seconds on the shot clock. Cooney got the ball and, if the referee was to be believed, he was fouled I the first second and got the shot off in the second second. That seems amazing. Isn’t there some rule in the NBA that a shot with a second left doesn’t count unless it’s a tip-in because you can’t catch and shoot in that time?
- We are a team with no center and no true point guard who is dependent on the three point shot, which becomes relatively easy to guard if you know that’s all the other team is going to do, other than drive to the basket from beyond the arc, which gives the other team time to collapse on the driver.
- But we could open up more offensive possibilities if we would do things like running a high post offense with Tyler Lydon or using the full court press proactively. (I’m not big on switching to a man-for –man because if you are playing the zone poorly it’s probably because you are not moving very well and I doubt that a defense that requires you to move even more is the answer. But surely the zone can be adjusted to cut off what the other team is having success with, or at least make it more difficult. ) But we don’t do some things just because we don’t do them: we don’t believe in them so we don’t teach that here of they aren’t available to us. The great coaches like Popovich of Belichick don’t just obtain players for the way they’d like to play: they can also adjust their strategy to what ty have available. And in college ball where you don’t always have elite athletes at every potion and the roster changes every year, there are always going to be flaws on every team that you have to work around. You really nee3d the whole playbook to do that. “We don’t do it because we don’t do it” doesn’t get it done.
- Clemson won this game because we had no interior defense at ll. Every time the ball got into the paint or to the baseline, a lay-up or dunk was virtually automatic. Clemson had 40 points in the paint to our 18 and was 20 for 35 ((.571) on two point shots to our 11 for 28. (.392) And next we face Brice Johnson, who just had a 39 point 23 rebound game against Florida State. He could easily to9p those figures against us from what I saw tonight.
- In the first half, our offense was at its dismal worse: nothing but ring-around-the Rosie, with the ball never penetrating the arc unless someone made a separate drive late in the shot clock. We shot 10 for 33 overall and 4 for 156 from the three point line, which was easily guarded because Clemson didn’t have to worry about anything else. They just guarded us the way you would guard a team who needed a three pointer to tie in the finals seconds: everyone at the arc, each guy finding a man and making sure he was guarded.
- Which is ironic because we faced the exact situation at the end of regulation. Not only did we not foul to put them on the line, (which everybody was talking about on the post- game call in show), but we trapped, leaving a guy open for the tying three pointer. Why would you try to force a turnover as the risk of an open shot when it’s 61-58 with five seconds left?!?
- DaJuan Coleman in three ACC games: 45 minutes played 3 for 7 from the field with no free throw attempts. 6 points, 8 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 steals and block with 4 turnovers and 11 fouls committed. Opposing centers and forward s are 30 for 55 on two point shots, (virtually all of which would have been in the paint and 20 for 26 from the foul line. We’ve been outscore din the paint in these games 62-104.
- Tyler Lydon hit a three late in the game but was 1 for 6 from the field and often reluctant to shoot, (which means he’s less likely to make it when he does). We have to get him more involved in the offense and that’s hard to do when he just camps out in the corner. He’s attempted 13 shots in 98 minutes in ACC play.
- Kaleb Joseph played 5 minutes, had a rebound but no assists and was 0 for 2 from the field. No progress at all.
- For all our problems if Trevor Cooney’s three pointer at the end had fallen, we win. And if his three pointer with 9:48 had counted, we’d have won in regulation. We inbounded with 2 seconds on the shot clock. Cooney got the ball and, if the referee was to be believed, he was fouled I the first second and got the shot off in the second second. That seems amazing. Isn’t there some rule in the NBA that a shot with a second left doesn’t count unless it’s a tip-in because you can’t catch and shoot in that time?
- We are a team with no center and no true point guard who is dependent on the three point shot, which becomes relatively easy to guard if you know that’s all the other team is going to do, other than drive to the basket from beyond the arc, which gives the other team time to collapse on the driver.
- But we could open up more offensive possibilities if we would do things like running a high post offense with Tyler Lydon or using the full court press proactively. (I’m not big on switching to a man-for –man because if you are playing the zone poorly it’s probably because you are not moving very well and I doubt that a defense that requires you to move even more is the answer. But surely the zone can be adjusted to cut off what the other team is having success with, or at least make it more difficult. ) But we don’t do some things just because we don’t do them: we don’t believe in them so we don’t teach that here of they aren’t available to us. The great coaches like Popovich of Belichick don’t just obtain players for the way they’d like to play: they can also adjust their strategy to what ty have available. And in college ball where you don’t always have elite athletes at every potion and the roster changes every year, there are always going to be flaws on every team that you have to work around. You really nee3d the whole playbook to do that. “We don’t do it because we don’t do it” doesn’t get it done.
