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Message: [QUOTE="auror, post: 4851150, member: 1329"] Hurley strong adjustment going back to Samson hard hedging to take away Creighton's primary PnR game. Knew it worked in the past against them, went back to the well. Team executed it well despite not doing it as much this season. Samson only one foul on it tonight. Clingan also unbelievable job in PnR D in his first game back. Turns out we matched up pretty well against them because they had nobody to take Spencer off the dribble on D and as predicted they didn't have the athletes or the inclination to attack the boards hard (like the teams that found some success against us without Clingan). It's a bit of a different game if they make a few more 3s, but we didn't make it easy and that's what being on the road and the good crowd causes. We took a lot more midrange jumpers in this one, seems like by design. St John's also killed Creighton from the midrange last game. Those are just pretty tough shots to rely on. But Creighton by sagging off Castle and Johnson/Clingan took away the paint and then switched and went over on the perimeter so we just took the "open" space. I'm afraid Castle is going to continue to get dorked out there. There's something about Kalkbrenner. I used to defend his game a lot when he was under-appreciated, but he hasn't really added anything (except a fledgling 3pt shot) this season. He just gets a lot of cardio out there. Waves his arms on D. He needs to either be more physical or more mobile. He's like a B- on both and he's just... fine. I don't know if McDermott made him too risk averse with the lack of fouling or what. There's no excuse for him to not have a double digit block rate and 15+% oreb rate (he had it his soph year). [/QUOTE]

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