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Message: [QUOTE="swish7, post: 4531813, member: 486"] Probably just torturing myself, but UM just wrestled this away from us. So frustrating![ATTACH type="full" alt="1673964270137.png"]224216[/ATTACH] In 38 seconds, from 8:33 to 7:55 an 8 point leads is whittled to 3. [LIST=1] [*]Chris Bell foul leads to 2 UM FTs [*]Girard turnover leads to a UM layup [*]Justin Taylor foul leads to 1 UM FT [/LIST] From 7:55 to 6:56 we toy around w a 3-4 point lead At 6:38, a UM offensive rebound lets them close it to 1. For the next couple minutes, we we trade buckets, until at 3:54 a Mintz turnover leads to UM getting 2 buckets in a row and going up 1. At 3:18, Justin Taylor hits a well guarded 3 that puts us back up 2. But, honestly, for the last 5 minutes we had not stopped much, and this continues. Miller from UM gets an offensive board at 2:59 (off his own miss, and over Jesse who did not box him out and then fouls Miller). This led to a Miller game tying bucket and the go-ahead FT. This was the ball game. Jesse should have had that ball. Miller is like 6"s shorter. From 2:39 to 1:58, there is just a mad battle for control of the game. UM weathers it and ultimately goes up 3. Even though we got to within 2 again, the game was kinda over. I wish we did not put ourselves in a situation where a turnover here and there (or 5) mattered as much as they did. But, if you cannot rebound, or handle a muscular big, man, you just give up so much control in a game. Looking at the offensive rebounding over the course of the game [LIST=1] [*]SU had 16 - 8 in the 1st half, leading to 1 dunk & 2 FTs & 8 in the 2nd half (1 came w time running out), leading to 5 scores [*]UM had 16 - only 3 in the 1st half, leading to 2 FTs, but 13 in the 2nd, leading to 6 scores (a few 3s too) [/LIST] If we limit their offensive boards in the 2nd, like we did in the 1st, we control the outcome. Looking at fouls, and the FT differential surprised me bc I thought we were getting the calls, in the 2nd half, [LIST] [*]UM had 7 (4 in the 1st 7 mins & none in the last 4 &) & [*]SU had 12 spread evenly throughout the half [/LIST] Mintz reminds me of the football kids I coach in lacrosse, who cannot figure out when to pull back as opposed to run through someone. [/QUOTE]

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