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…..makes me nervous the last few games. Need to do a better job or just keep the foot on the gas.
…..makes me nervous the last few games. Need to do a better job or just keep the foot on the gas.
For a team that shoots 75% from the line as a whole, it does seem like we do miss the front end of like every free throw hahaPoor free throw shooting, especially late in games, has made the issue worse. Feels like we've been missing every 1-and-1 lately.
Bingo. For example Xavier drove immediately after getting across half court and we just bumped and fouled them like 3x in a row.Prevent offense doesn’t bug me as much as when the defense doesn’t match. Burn clock is the goal on both ends so don’t foul.
I was more worried about the killing time then a deep, inefficient shot. I think we have the ability in the last ~7 or so seconds of a shot clock to get a relatively good look.Bingo. For example Xavier drove immediately after getting across half court and we just bumped and fouled them like 3x in a row.
Killing time when up double digits is almost never a bad thing. Letting teams score in like 5 seconds (whether from field or FT line)? That's bad.
But still our lowest win probability against Xavier at the end was 96%. Against Creighton it was 99%. We can shore up the end game defense and then it's no harm no foul.
So far, the season has presented a tremendous number of 'growth opportunities.' I doubt this has escaped the coaching staff's attention.Prevent offense isn't really supposed to be pretty. We need to work on execution and timing a bit, but overall I have no complaints. Hasn't come back to bite us in the bum yet
Honestly, we bench Donovan in these situations because he can't make free throws.Once Donovan gets fully healthy I'd love if we'd get him the ball with about 8 to go in these situations start the action around 12 get him posted up and see if he can score. Worst case scenario he misses a hook with 4 seconds on the clock and since the ball is in the post no long rebound and setup the defense.
Against Creighton it was 99%. We can shore up the end game defense and then it's no harm no foul.
This team has an earlier-in-the-season chance to improve performance, and I think it'll get better.Don't like in general and certainly do not like how they did it against X and Creighton. It reminds me of our offense several years ago when they would dribble out the clock, and be forced to shoot a bad/nasty shot w/2 seconds left on the clock. IMO nothing good can come of that plan.
Yeah I was having a meltdown when the lead got cut to 5 points with 3 minutes leftthe scariest game for me with prevent offense was BET PC game last year. We were playing beautiful basketball up nearly 30 in the second half and nearly blew it.