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Message: [QUOTE="Doctor Hoop, post: 5129714, member: 6845"] No idea how they’re teaching the guards to defend on the perimeter. But from the wing you can’t get beat baseline with no shot blocker behind you. Over and over we gave up gaps from the wing. Out top you can’t square up five feet off the ball and flat footed. Any competent ball handler can get you off balance and beat you to a spot, and that happened repeatedly yesterday. The D will improve if, and only if, Ross, Ball, McNeeley and Stewart figure out how to keep their man in front of them. Diarra and Nowell seem to do it better but there’s always room for improvement. And Johnson. How many dunks by Key last night off PNR with Johnson doing the high hedge? His hedge doesn’t deter or force deep the ball handler, it’s useless. And no defensive rotation from the wings to cover. On offense it looks Keystone Kop-ish, halter skelter hoping for an opening, rather than creating one. It’s true that we shot 3’s particularly badly, but 3’s are best when you create penetration first (see above). There’s a lot of work to do Dan Hurley and associates. Get to it, no time to count rings. [/QUOTE]