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Chief was unable to watch the game tonight. My apologies, since I know how reading The Briefs have become part of many people’s game day routine.
However, while I can’t give you the usual authenic eye test observations, Chief will make a few general comments:
However, while I can’t give you the usual authenic eye test observations, Chief will make a few general comments:
- First, congratulations to Tyler. He is a great kid, and it’s good to see some 3 ball swagger tonight, when we most needed it.
- Whaley was active and a rebounding machine. Keep away from silly fouls and this is what Isiah can consistently do for us.
- Rebounding - We are a very good rebounding team and that still means a lot. I know some people try to say in today’s game, that rebounding isn’t important. It is!! When we had those losing years, we consistently got out rebounded when we played good teams. In contrast, Jim led the country in rebounding, I think like 7 years in a row - and won a few games during that tenure. In particular, we are getting good on the offensive glass. That truly changes a game. Psychologically it puts you in charge.
- Point Guard - Let’s not fool ourselves, we are not seeing the production from that position that we need. Danny still thinks Cole will get untracked. There are various pros and cons to playing Boutnight at the point. It would make other teams commit to the double/triple hedging earlier and perhaps freeing up more good looks by Tyler? Also, this year our strength besides Boutnight is up front. So it would help us optimally allocate minutes. The downside is it might wear him out and detract from his scoring.
- We are starting to see a trend away from foolish fouls, that took away from our defense by giving the opponents too many points from the line and taking key guys to the bench with foul trouble. This and rebounding are two things to watch.
- Nice to see 50% from 3. That opens things up and makes tve game easier.
- Garcia - Impressed with his game and he put up good numbers tonight. Has a really solid winning type game.
- Defense - Held the opponent to 38% from the field and 27% from 3. That’s solid defense. It’s nice to have a given of solid defense as a starting point to built on. We have a lot of length on defense with many of our rotations.
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