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[QUOTE="Oakland, post: 3703810, member: 590"]
In the second half of the Pitt game, SU was playing very poorly with individual players making mistake after mistake and the team broke down as a whole.

The Virginia game was much different.  That was a systemic mauling of the team and the coaching strategy.  I am sure our players made mistakes but I wouldn't bother to focus on those - that is not the main reason for what happened on Monday.  Sam Hauser made lots of 3pters and he made them from all 5 positions on the 3pt arc, and the rest of their outside shooters hit on 39% of their shots - that was not on Buddy or Joe (or the center, as JB might say).  And that was while they were slicing up our internal defense for what had to be a record number of alley-oops against us (ouch!) - I'm sure a healthy Sid would have helped but I doubt he would have changed much as he can only be in one place at a time.

The good news is that, unless we play Gonzaga, we probably won't be outclassed like that again this season.
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