SWC75
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- Uglyball. That was last year’s national championship game all over again. We played the Connecticut role, doing just enough to build up a lead. They were Butler, clanking everything in sight- until they suddenly decided to get hot in the last 6 minutes, hitting 5 treys after going 0 for 16 and making the final minutes more nervous than they needed to be.
- JB complained we must have had ten fast breaks that came to nothing. The primary problem was not sharing the ball. Players tried to drive through the defense themselves to score rather than hit an open teammate.
- It’s going to matter that we have no effective inside scoring. We have two ways to score in the half-court set: jump shots or drives to the basket. Most of the drives end up in wild lay-ups or floaters. We have some guys who can make those kinds of shots but nobody is going to make a high percentage of them. The big men are strictly dish and dunk guys and only Melo seems to have good hands.
- Marshall is one of the nation’s top rebounding teams but we shouldn’t get waxed 33-46 by anybody. C.J. Fair took the night off with 1 rebounds in 20 minutes and was 0 for 4 from the field.
- JB complained we must have had ten fast breaks that came to nothing. The primary problem was not sharing the ball. Players tried to drive through the defense themselves to score rather than hit an open teammate.
- It’s going to matter that we have no effective inside scoring. We have two ways to score in the half-court set: jump shots or drives to the basket. Most of the drives end up in wild lay-ups or floaters. We have some guys who can make those kinds of shots but nobody is going to make a high percentage of them. The big men are strictly dish and dunk guys and only Melo seems to have good hands.
- Marshall is one of the nation’s top rebounding teams but we shouldn’t get waxed 33-46 by anybody. C.J. Fair took the night off with 1 rebounds in 20 minutes and was 0 for 4 from the field.
