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Message: [QUOTE="8893, post: 4237373, member: 93"] I’m with [USER=1047]@August_West[/USER] here, and it’s not second-guessing because we said the exact same thing when we beat Villanova a few weeks ago: you can’t stick with our starting lineup when you need points. Notice the difference when Kimani finally put Polley in with 35 seconds left; after being scoreless for more than three minutes, we finally scored and held on to win with a couple good breaks. Hurley doesn’t make that change and we lose. Last night we stuck with the starting lineup and didn’t score. We left our fate to a sophomore center who was double and triple teamed all night, had trouble scoring all night and has a bad habit of not passing back out. We needed points and Polley is a fifth year player whose first job is to score. How he got only four shots all night is kind of staggering imo. And none for Gaff? Martin‘s scoring obviously helped, but he actually shot the same percentage as Sanogo And Jackson. And with a goose egg from Whaley that just isn’t going to get it done, especially on a night when RJ shoots only 30% and is hounded all night too. I get the gamble Hurley has made in constructing this team—and especially his starting lineup—and his preference for defense at the expense of offense. And as I said, for the most part it has worked and we have won the games we were supposed to win (remember we were actually favored vs. Nova at the XL) and have no bad losses. Last night was not a bad loss by any stretch. But as I’ve said from the start of the season, the lack of reliable offense among AJax, Whaley and Martin makes it hard imo to justify keeping them all on the floor together for so much of the game—especially if we need points at the end of a game. [/QUOTE]

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