Game thoughts - Monmouth (an extra long one tonight)

[intlzncster]

You can nitpick anybody though. Anderson, for the solid defense he played, was absolutely brutal on our possessions the last 10 or so minutes of game time. Almost turned out to be a zero sum game out of him late in the game.

You're not wrong, but given who he was locking down, I'm not sure that was zero sum. I mean, that kid torched us first half. Anderson gave him very little room to breath.

 

[ctchamps]

Agree. I think its obvious that defense has been the problem and if that improves, which I think it can because its more of just them taking some plays off and going through the motions on the defensive end, this can be a tournament team. The 2006-2007 season comes to mind because that was a young inexperienced team. That team struggled on offense, but I think they were ranked in the top 20 in FG % defense. They finished 17-14 and that was in the Big East.

Taking Plays off. Nah. We doubled their big because he was having his way inside. Diarra did a credible job on him but even he needed help.

There have been plays in games this season in which our guards have lost their man or didn’t make the switch.

This game they were much better in decreasing that. They still have room for improvement but I felt this game was a big improvement with the teams defense given the weakness the team has at the five.