Tough to win shooting FG’s 9% less efficiently than your opponent and turnovers at key points in the game. That’s on us! Not enough ball and body movement. Poor decision making.
There have been worse officiated games this year but there were touch or phantom fouls - all against us of course. Tough to win in a close game when your opponent gets almost four (4) times as many foul shot attempts. They built a second half lead without scoring a FG over an 8 minute period.
The high hedge highlighted its vulnerability again with Sanogo repeatedly being caught on a guard 23 feet from the hoop, while Creighton’s Big rolled unguarded to the hoop with UConn’s guard in no man’s land.
The other thing the high hedge does, that it’s proponents don’t acknowledge, is that it leave us in terrible fundamental defensive position that leads to fouls. Our talent sometimes mitigated that but today we paid the price putting them to the line.
I really liked the defensive energy Diarra brought late in the first half. It gets us in an up tempo on offense too. After playing some great position defense in recent games, I thought Andre went for the pump fake today and played defense with his hands and not his feet.
Sanogo dropping threes is yet another argument for a Double Big, as if we needed another. He was our best three point shooter today. Adama dropping threes and Donovan protecting the rim on D, would make us a deep team in a Double Big March. In the first half the 2 Bigs shot 54%FG, the rest of the team 25%. It is criminal to underutilize minutes on the two who contribute to the 54%. That’s almost a 30% spread! Basic math!
Sanogo played well today. Hawkins’s started too late.
Hawkins has a high ceiling and certainly has showed improvement this year. However, he needs to learn how to get his scoring going when his jumper is slow to get started.
There have been worse officiated games this year but there were touch or phantom fouls - all against us of course. Tough to win in a close game when your opponent gets almost four (4) times as many foul shot attempts. They built a second half lead without scoring a FG over an 8 minute period.
The high hedge highlighted its vulnerability again with Sanogo repeatedly being caught on a guard 23 feet from the hoop, while Creighton’s Big rolled unguarded to the hoop with UConn’s guard in no man’s land.
The other thing the high hedge does, that it’s proponents don’t acknowledge, is that it leave us in terrible fundamental defensive position that leads to fouls. Our talent sometimes mitigated that but today we paid the price putting them to the line.
I really liked the defensive energy Diarra brought late in the first half. It gets us in an up tempo on offense too. After playing some great position defense in recent games, I thought Andre went for the pump fake today and played defense with his hands and not his feet.
Sanogo dropping threes is yet another argument for a Double Big, as if we needed another. He was our best three point shooter today. Adama dropping threes and Donovan protecting the rim on D, would make us a deep team in a Double Big March. In the first half the 2 Bigs shot 54%FG, the rest of the team 25%. It is criminal to underutilize minutes on the two who contribute to the 54%. That’s almost a 30% spread! Basic math!
Sanogo played well today. Hawkins’s started too late.
Hawkins has a high ceiling and certainly has showed improvement this year. However, he needs to learn how to get his scoring going when his jumper is slow to get started.
