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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 1547643, member: 289"] - I realize that Lehigh was a step above- probably more than one- LeMoyne and Southern Florida. But I thought this was a high scoring, uptempo SU team. We got 52 shots off and scored 57 points. Last year, when everything was slow and ugly, we got off 57 shots a game and scored 68 points a game. - JB emphasized that the three point shot is key to this team: “we don’t have another option. That’s the best option for us -- that shot." But I’m still not comfortable with 65% of shots being the three pointer. How many teams have we beaten over the years that tried to beat us with the three pointer and failed because we could keep going inside and scoring while they would start missing at some point and fall behind. Now we are that team. - If we are going to jack up 34 three pointers, we need to hit more than 11 of them to justify it, even if it is you “best option”. Our outside game should set up an inside game, or at least open up lanes to the basket for people who know how to move with the ball. - We also used to be able to foul out big men by going to a big-time inside scorer. Tim Kempton had three fouls at halftime- and three at the end of the game. Kempton had 12 points and 8 rebounds in that second half. - Kempton scored 16 points in the game primarily because he got to the line 13 times. The guy who should be our big-time inside scorer, DaJuan Coleman,. Picked up 4 fouls in 13 minutes and had 2 points and 2 rebounds. His back-up, Chinoso Obokoh, never scored and fouled out in 15 minutes. Neither has any clue about how to positon themselves on defense, which prevents them from contributing anything on offense. We are the definition of a donut team. - 13 assists and 17 turnovers. A perimeter oriented game should produce more assists and fewer turnovers, with more missed shots being the downside. There is lot of work to do before this can be a good team- and they need to get good in a hurry. [/QUOTE]

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