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[QUOTE="billsin01, post: 140628, member: 837"]
Yeah, I'm very interested to see us against top flight competition. There has been a good deal of attention paid to our rebounding struggles, and perhaps rightfully so. But I think an equal or greater concern against good opponents is that we've had a tendency to allow a good deal of penetration and, as a result, several teams have carved up the zone for full games or at least long chunks of games.

Consider:

NC State shot basically 58%, 50% from 3
PC -- 49% from the floor/46%% from 3/75% on 28 FTs
Tulane and Depaul both got to the line 20+ times and Bucknell struggled shooting but was getting open looks for the entire first half.

So no, I'm not suggesting this is a bad defensive team or that we're going to lose when we play a good opponent. But I would say that teams' ability to get into the teeth of this zone and either kick to open teammates for good looks or get to the FT line is [I]somewhat[/I] disconcerting.

It's nitpicking, of course, but it's worth noting when considering that we haven't played a bad schedule but it hasn't been a who's who of hoops teams either.
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