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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 862523, member: 289"] - Last week Trevor Cooney said that if we began the Villanova game the way we began the High Point game, we’d be down 20 at halftime. We did and he was almost right. We found ourselves down 7-25 and were embarrassing ourselves on national TV. We hadn’t played a game in a week but neither had the Wildcats. Jay Wright came out in a full court press and his players responded with 9 minutes of an intensity we just couldn’t match- at start not at the start. - We must have the worst 1 second defense in the country. Teams score with that much left on the shot clock an incredible number of times, even on in-bounds plays like the one we saw today. Of course we rarely score in that situation because we don’t take up the whole shot clock. I think our problem on defense is that we are afraid to foul and give them a new shot clock with so little time left so we prefer to assume that they hurray the shot that it will miss. Too often, it doesn’t. - CJ Fair continues to turn the ball over. He had 5 of our 12 turnovers and now has 40 in 12 games after having 63 in 40 games last year. He gets double-teamed a lot and he hasn’t learned to pass effectively out of the double team. Jimmy Satalin said on the radio that CJ seems to be getting the ball too far from the basket and has to dribble through defenders to get within shooting range. He needs to post up more. Preston Shumpert was a jump-shooter by trade and I recall that in his senior year he was learning to post up smaller defenders, (and that’s mostly what Villanova had). CJ needs to learn how to do that. - This whole thing about issuing flagrant fouls and interrupting games to watch the video has gotten out of hand. The Villanova player bodied up on Grant and then flopped when Grant tried to fend him off while holding onto the ball. It was a terrible call as foul but then to call it a “flagrant” foul and consider throwing Grant out over it was ridiculous. [/QUOTE]

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