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Message: [QUOTE="Doctor Hoop, post: 2436153, member: 6845"] The truth is that Ward and Jackson were dominating in the middle, and Onourah, Carlton and the brief appearance by Diarra weren't enough of an offensive threat to make them play honest on D. On drives their bigs came to cut off the opening, and we didn't find or present to be open for the guard. They also played very well to start the second half, and then turned on the jets when under 10 minutes they had controlled their foul problems. Plus Cassius Winston was unconscious. If Larrier hadn't got hot in the second half we'd have lost by 35. One thing we don't ever do on offense is screen away from the ball. All of our screens are ball screens. Our other offense options include post-ups and isolations. It's pretty vanilla, and each of these require talent and experience to make it work. And yes, it's a lot like what Calhoun would run, although earlier teams had some better imagination (Hamilton, Allen) as [USER=62]@Excalibur[/USER] noted.. And yes, it works a whole lot better when you have threats outside the arc. Yesterday we had one for ten minutes in the first half (Adams), and one in the second half (Larrier). We're going to need Vital to come around, and if Polley could get some confidence that would really help. The '11 and '14 NC's depended on Walker and Napier playing other-worldly. We don't have that in our arsenal at this time. Our defense wasn't that bad, although we lost track of some shooters in the second half. That said, MSU is a very complete team, and there's no shame in losing to them early in the season. They have experience and talent, and a very good freshman big in Jackson. If you're expecting us to be that kind of finished product now I don't think that's realistic. If we play well we can beat Arkansas. [/QUOTE]

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