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Originally posted by Wxcpanther View Post
Right? Why would someone shooting over 50% from 3 take an open shot off the pick and pop? What was he thinking?!?
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Originally posted by Mudrafan View Post
Low sample size and was a stupid shot. Out of range and doesn’t answer for the other two dumb shots either, but keep the rose colored glasses on.
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JD may have had 3 turnovers but in 13 minutes had 5 rebounds, 3 blocked shots and caused 4 turnovers. He is not a net loss on offense because he creates huge screens and is enough
of a threat that he must be guarded. If you can't see what he did to Drake yesterday in stopping their offense, then you are blind. We did not have an offense problem, we had a defense problem
just like the Bradley game. We had six points and no 3s from our center spot, yet it was our best offensive game of the year. Our guards have dramatically improved yet we are still losing because we play too small for too long. We get owned in the paint without Dahl in. Biggie is back, we have two 4s and a 5. McDonnell is a 4, JD is a 5. Play them in their natural positions even if it only for 10 minutes a game. Having an inside game makes our guards more effective Having another big man next to McDonnell can only help him. He won't foul out and he won't have the biggest guy guarding him. Next year we will have 3 4s, a 5 and hopefully Phyfe. I hope we are not going to go with 4 guards again next year the whole game. We are at the bottom of the league, trying something different is not stupid.
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Originally posted by Leatherhelmet View PostBiggie is back, we have two 4s and a 5. McDonnell is a 4, JD is a 5. Play them in their natural positions even if it only for 10 minutes a game.
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I'm kind of baking on us using up all the bad luck this year. Nothing has gone right.
Plus, we're in bizzarro world because the offense is all of a sudden really, really good but the defense can't stop anyone. This is the offense Jake envisioned at the beginning of the year. It's working.#MACtion
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Just had a chance to watch this one... We really need to play defense. Ugly. I don't see how little can defend McDonnell playing twice the minutes of Dahl. I get Luke is better offensively, but man this teams problem is it's defense right now. Any idea how efficient the offense was with JD in vs McDonnell? I'd really like to see them each playing about 20 minutes and think playing them together isn't a bad idea either. Especially against a team like Drake, who seemed to be attacking the rim every possession. He's just so big he's going to disrupt shots. With that said, the O is looking really, really good.To avoid confusion - my username is baseball (Cy Young award) related, NOT for the Cyclones.
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Originally posted by Leatherhelmet View PostJD may have had 3 turnovers but in 13 minutes had 5 rebounds, 3 blocked shots and caused 4 turnovers. He is not a net loss on offense because he creates huge screens and is enough
of a threat that he must be guarded. If you can't see what he did to Drake yesterday in stopping their offense, then you are blind. We did not have an offense problem, we had a defense problem
just like the Bradley game. We had six points and no 3s from our center spot, yet it was our best offensive game of the year. Our guards have dramatically improved yet we are still losing because we play too small for too long. We get owned in the paint without Dahl in. Biggie is back, we have two 4s and a 5. McDonnell is a 4, JD is a 5. Play them in their natural positions even if it only for 10 minutes a game. Having an inside game makes our guards more effective Having another big man next to McDonnell can only help him. He won't foul out and he won't have the biggest guy guarding him. Next year we will have 3 4s, a 5 and hopefully Phyfe. I hope we are not going to go with 4 guards again next year the whole game. We are at the bottom of the league, trying something different is not stupid.
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Originally posted by BCPanther View PostI'm kind of baking on us using up all the bad luck this year. Nothing has gone right.
Plus, we're in bizzarro world because the offense is all of a sudden really, really good but the defense can't stop anyone. This is the offense Jake envisioned at the beginning of the year. It's working.
Ha. I'm feeling rather "baked!"
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Singleton was 50 pounds heavier than Berhow. 35 pounds heavier than McDonnell. Bennett Koch was 232. Friedman was 245. Jesperson and McDonnell are about the same weight. If we are unwilling to play McDonnell and Dahl at the same time, want to limit Dahl to 7-13 minutes with little 2nd half action, sit Biggie on the bench, then Haldeman and Green better each score 25 because we are too short and light to match up physically. We just outshot Drake, hit 50 percent.... and that still didn’t do it.
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Alright, let's assume for a second that Jake listened to what you guys are saying, and played them both at the same time. How exactly would the defense work, for example, against Drake? JD is obviously matched up with either McGlynn or Levi Robbins, but who does Luke guard? Does he guard Tremell Murphy, who's pretty much a carbon copy of Trae? Maybe Brady Ellingson? Then not only that obvious issue defensively, but the offense we are running right now which is currently the best offense in MVC play as far as efficiency goes, does not work with 2 big guys out there. At all. It depends upon 1 post running the show in the high post, which Luke has pretty well mastered, and 4 guards setting screens for eachother or reading the defense and cutting when appropriate. That doesn't work at all with both Luke and JD out there. MAYBE with Luke and Biggie because they're both able to stretch the floor shooting.
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Originally posted by Wxcpanther View PostAlright, let's assume for a second that Jake listened to what you guys are saying, and played them both at the same time. How exactly would the defense work, for example, against Drake? JD is obviously matched up with either McGlynn or Levi Robbins, but who does Luke guard? Does he guard Tremell Murphy, who's pretty much a carbon copy of Trae? Maybe Brady Ellingson? Then not only that obvious issue defensively, but the offense we are running right now which is currently the best offense in MVC play as far as efficiency goes, does not work with 2 big guys out there. At all. It depends upon 1 post running the show in the high post, which Luke has pretty well mastered, and 4 guards setting screens for eachother or reading the defense and cutting when appropriate. That doesn't work at all with both Luke and JD out there. MAYBE with Luke and Biggie because they're both able to stretch the floor shooting.To avoid confusion - my username is baseball (Cy Young award) related, NOT for the Cyclones.
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