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[QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 5303343, member: 405"]
Sorry to disagree, because the PG position is doing poorly.  But our defense is the reason we have lost so many games.  Eddie literally turns his back on guys who are driving the lane at least 2 or 3 times a game.  I mean, what the heck are you doing???

Donnie Freeman is talented but not strong. Does not have strong hands. Does not have the lower body strength to avoid being bodied out of the low post.  Does not have the common sense to go inside more often and shoot over defenders.  He's soft.  He gets rebounds and scores because he's big, athletic and talented, but he's soft as tissue paper.  That's a problem.

Autry hasn't prioritized defense, and the offense is non-existent, so what have they been working on in practice?  Their pre-game handshakes?

I mean, we are 13 games into the season before he tries a press.  He has played zone maybe 20 minutes all season, if that, when he has a center who can't defend one-on-one.

We've all looked at him give too much game time to guys who aren't trying out there.  He finally seems to be doing something about that, but again, culture wise, there is rot that sets in when you don't make your team play any defense for the first 2 months of the season, and then suddenly you start benching guys?  I mean, where is the sense?  What is the goal?
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