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Message: [QUOTE="orangefan13, post: 1553493, member: 906"] Bonnaventure shot 19-44 with 10 threes with 11 minutes in the game left. That is 43% and 10 threes. That was a huge part of the story in this one. When you add the offesive boards to it tells even more. That being said. FG attempt differential. We were about tied again 2nd game in a row. This game they had 12 more FG attempts then us, but, We had 11 more free throw trips to the line for 2 shots 23 more freethrows so it was a push. When FG attempts are a wash its simple outshoot your opponents percentage wise adjusting for 3 point percentages as well. Nobody knows the deal with fg attempts pregame though and that is one of the fun things about basketball. I think it was a big positive that we drove the ball off the dribble in the second half I didn't know malachi had that in him in the halfcourt in the fullcourt yes but not the half. I was watching UNI play a few nights ago and they had a big white kid who drove the lane from the perimeter and got to the tin, its good to have a forward who can do that and Lydon pulled one off. Dajaun played a solid 5 mintues both halfs but we traded minutes and didn't go on runs. I don't know if it was a offensive thing or a defensive thing as much but, I forsee that Kaleb is going to have to play exclusively SG this year. Gbinije is going to run the offense with the ball out of his hands. Against 6'1 PG's, I forsee Gbinije taking them off the dribble and hitting those long two's in the lane being a focal point of his offense to get someone else guarding him and ease up his pg duties. I thought he would force doubles off from the perimeter but would rather see him just force taller defenders to play him more. Maybe that is where KJO can get some p, on days Gbinije is not finding those and he has to pass the ball off quicker. But I don't see that happening to often. I think it is Malachi eating Kalebs minutes early on and a big part of that is he is going to hit a few big shots early. I think Gbinije also has enough work playing PG defensively to spend much time at forward. I think On games when we are up KJO will get more of a loose opportunity to play then on games we are down. I see him being pure SG. He can still create assists out of SG though. Just a prediction though and I am not making to many of those. I am pleased we are driving the ball I wasn't sure if we were going to have to depend on more motion and hoping to get behind the defense. It is looking like we won't after today. Much different the last 10 minutes then the first 3 1/2 games. Sadly Lydon can't afford the foul trouble to attack the lane off the dribble more. Hes to key as a center. Can we please have a clone of him every recruiting class. The first two games, defensively this team has two holes on it one of the forward spots and at center. When we get a game where both forward spots play tough we will notice the positive difference and we get a game where our center does on top of it we notice it even more. [/QUOTE]

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