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Message: [QUOTE="YKCornelius, post: 5124588, member: 9864"] Oregon State right now is in a struggle to figure things out. In the first two games, against undersized opponents, they had success bringing the ball into their bigs. Then they played three straight games against teams with quality size, and the OSU bigs struggled mightily. Couple that with the guards having poor success shooting the three, the last three games have been blowouts. Even though this team is chocked full of seniors, only two (Marotte and Rees) of the seven who receive quality minutes have significant game experience with each other prior to this year. This is not a fast team, nor is it built to play catch-up. Based on their last two games where it seems evident that Coach Rueck emphasized keeping a core group of players on the floor to get used to playing with each other, I would expect more of the same against the Huskies. I further expect OSU to maintain a deliberate offensive scheme despite the score. Although I think this will be over by half time (maybe after the first quarter), I also expect Gino to use the bench quite a bit in the second half to keep legs fresh for the next game. More importantly, I expect him to be running a lot of half court offense through the Huskies' bigs in the second half to get them ready for the ranked opponents down the road. [/QUOTE]