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Message: [QUOTE="ctchamps, post: 3329364, member: 37"] Funny how this is totally ignored in this thread. We have guys that can shoot. Shooting is not the problem. It's more likely focus or mental toughness or trying too hard. That entire comeback where the team got the score down to minus three twice the guys were shooting lights out. Tyler made two threes and Brendan made one all in the flow of the offense. When it was minus nine with under three minutes to play Gilbert came down and hit two long threes. In both cases he brought the ball up and shot with little time running off the clock. As observers we miss positive things when we watch what we believe to be so much negative play. We're as guilty of our emotions as players. (I'm not negating the far too many plays our guards took quick shots without trying to probe St. Joseph's defense. That was tough to watch. I'm making the case that we have shooters and scorers and need to set them up better.) The comeback in the Sacred Heart game was the result of the team stepping up their defense. The comeback in this game occurred when the defensive pressure stepped up. It was too little too late. St. Joes spread us on the perimeter, drove successfully or kicked out and hit an incredible percentage of their threes. They negated our height advantage. Our guys got gut punched and took too long before showing a modicum of life. Perhaps the call by Hurley should have been to let our bigs sag off their bigs to stop dribble penetration and let their team beat us with their bigs making threes. And perhaps doing that their bigs could have set up screens making it easier for their shooters to get open looks. Bottom line is they were hot and we were not and dug too big a hole to overcome. [/QUOTE]

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