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Message: [QUOTE="Chief00, post: 4888523, member: 11108"] Give Creighton credit for their good shooting and defense. They hit 11 more threes than us accounting for a 33 points margin to overcome and made 50% of their threes vs.18% for UConn. In a rare game, UConn’s opponent had ten (10) more assists. Our defense was not disruptive. Despite the threes that Creighton made, we did not effectively extend our defense with our guards. Johnson again was ineffective with the high hard hedge as Chief had feared. Newton and Clingan were our sole highlights tonight and Clingan got into early foul trouble. Newton had 27 points and mostly did it on his own. Alex is slumping again the last two games after playing well. He seems to play best this season when he starts off cutting a lot to the basket, making layups or getting to the line and then hitting threes. One problem with the high hedge is the defense gets lost if the offense starts anywhere but the top of the key. So once Donovan left with two fouls, that got exploited and Creighton started hitting 3’s and ran on confidence the rest of the game. There is a school of thought to get your bad performances out of the way in a late season game and that helps the players hear the coaches better at practice. Hopefully, this game is an example of that and not a start of a trend. [/QUOTE]