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Message: [QUOTE="Rico444, post: 4114841, member: 263"] I will qualify this by saying that I did not see a good chunk of the 2nd half and only caught the last 7 minutes on the radio while driving. That being said, a few thoughts: - Sanogo had a bad day. I'm not going to kill the guy, because he's probably our best player and not going to be on top of his game every night. He's also early into his sophomore season so I would expect improvement in the areas that were mentioned here: shot selection, passing the ball out when the shot isn't there, etc. That being said, Hurley needs to do a better job helping Adama when he's doubled. The rest of the team does a bad job of helping give him an escape hatch. Flare out to the corner if he's doubled, give him somewhere to pass the ball. At least a few of the bad shots and turnovers were because he had nowhere else to go with the ball. - I think it's time for Samson to get some more burn. Akok has not looked like the same player on defense that he was pre-injury. I'm not saying he can't get back there, but we should at least start mixing Samson in and seeing if he can contribute this year. - I have to give Tyrese Martin credit here, he was terrific today from what I saw. That play where he stole the ball, tapped it ahead to himself and got a breakaway dunk was fantastic. It sounds like he had some misses late but overall he's one of our better players and is going to be the reason we win more often than the reason we lose. - I think we're going to see the offense struggle like this in stretches because of the lack of playmakers. If Hawkins can get to that point by the end of the year that would be a huge lift, but when Sanogo is off and we're not hitting threes the offense is going to have its bad stretches. That being said, playing tough defense like we've seen we can so far this year and making our free throws may be the path to victory in some of our close games. I would imagine part of the struggle at the end was the fact that we just played an exhausting game yesterday that went to double OT. Add in that we didn't have Whaley and I think we beat this team 6 or more times out of 10. Just have to move on and win today, continue cleaning up some of the mistakes. [/QUOTE]

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