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auror said:
They have better run and jump athletes at the 4/5, we have better ones 1-3. Sanogo does have a large strength advantage, though.

We just have to get either do a great job of getting back on D or kill them on the boards. 1 or the other should be enough. If we do neither, we lose.
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I look at it as akin to the Xavier game, if we are taking the ball out of the basket at the end line more times than not, we lose. (obvious is obvious , but Im talking pace) . We need to rebound and push. And marquette is rated ABOVE Xavier in Offensive efficiency. Our bigs and our sets are minimized in that scenario. Our advantage is our bigs, but to make them an advantage we need to run 1/2 court. I dont like us to slow it down. We were killer early for pushing out for our runs.
 
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jibsey said:
I like Karaban getting all these minutes. Next year he's a beast.
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agreed but we're in win-now mode. i dont get all these silver lining threads and comments about who may or may not come back next year etc. Still lots of unknowns so this is our best shot at winning the BE and making a Final 4 type run.
 
@Hey Adrien!, are you a KenPom subscriber? If so, it would be cool to see the KenPom score prediction in your scouting report.

If not, maybe someone else who is a subscriber could reply to the thread with that info?
 
I like the way that Karaban spreads the floor when he’s making his shot from the corner. As long as he’s making some of them, the other tam’s 4 has to come out to guard him, opening things up in the middle.
 
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Billy Jack said:
You’re underrating Marquette.
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Marquette is a very efficient/smart team that is well-coached and I expect them to make the Tournament. I don't think it will be a cakewalk in Milwaukee. I do not think they have better athletes than us. Expect another strong game from AS/DC.. If we control James/Kolek.. I like our chances esp. if we dictate pace and get some of their starters in early foul trouble. Our bench will be the X factor
 
Scrutiner said:
Right now the trend is not our friend.
You were right about 3 pt shooting and rebounding until the start of the NBE season.
We've been outrebounded 4 of the last 5 games and our 3 pt % has gone down so much we're at 35.7% and they're at 35.3%.
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I kind of rushed writing my post and worded it poorly.

What I was trying to say is that Marquette doesn’t rebound well or shoot 3’s well.

So if we dominate in rebounding, as expected by the stats, we’ll have a huge advantage inside.

Likewise, we are an excellent defensive team against the 3 pt shot. We have a chance, with our D and their bad shooting, to shut down their 3 pt game completely.

So if we simply do what we’re good at, which is also what Marquette is bad at, we should win. Particularly if we don’t turn the ball over, which is what Marquette tries to do to their opponents.
 
auror said:
They have better run and jump athletes at the 4/5, we have better ones 1-3. Sanogo does have a large strength advantage, though.

We just have to get either do a great job of getting back on D or kill them on the boards. 1 or the other should be enough. If we do neither, we lose.
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They won't have any answer for Clingan, nobody does it's just will coach give him enough minutes?
 
We beat almost this exact team last year, twice - both squads are better this year, but they have more continuity on their roster.

FWIW we are 4-0 against them since re-joining the BE, sort of how we wanted to finally beat Creighton you can imagine that’s how they are feeling.
 
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tykurez said:
We beat almost this exact team last year, twice - both squads are better this year, but they have more continuity on their roster.

FWIW we are 4-0 against them since re-joining the BE, sort of how we wanted to finally beat Creighton you can imagine that’s how they are feeling.
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Marquette is nothing like they were last season.
 
Anyone get an idea of TV coverage? ESPN doesn’t have a channel listed as of now.
 
Umami Zen said:
Marquette is a very efficient/smart team that is well-coached and I expect them to make the Tournament. I don't think it will be a cakewalk in Milwaukee. I do not think they have better athletes than us. Expect another strong game from AS/DC.. If we control James/Kolek.. I like our chances esp. if we dictate pace and get some of their starters in early foul trouble. Our bench will be the X factor
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Yes, but they have home court, which will make this a close game that could go either way. I expect our team to prevail but not by 10.

Without better athletes, they blew out #19 Baylor by 26, played #1 Purdue to a 5-point game on the road, and are off to a 5-1 start in their Big East schedule with their only loss being a 5-point double OT loss to Providence at the Dunk.
 
tykurez said:
We beat almost this exact team last year, twice - both squads are better this year, but they have more continuity on their roster.

FWIW we are 4-0 against them since re-joining the BE, sort of how we wanted to finally beat Creighton you can imagine that’s how they are feeling.
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Having the exact team back intact is a huge advantage - especially when 4 of their top 7 players last year were freshmen and 3 of the started. And they improved their depth over last year.
 
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In this video, Hopkins (who was guarded primarily by Karaban) says FOUR TIMES he took advantage of a mismatch. That needs to be rectified and necessary in-games adjustments need to be made going forward.
 
They'll be very tough, particularly in Milwaukee. Kind of like PC was in Providence. There are no BE road games that you can coast through. We should have a huge advantage inside, and we need to get them into half-court D on their end. Some of their bigs in foul trouble would help.

Looking at their guard sizes, kinda makes me wish Jackson/Newton/Hawkins could force a switch to get the right matchup and then post up, particularly with Clingan in the game. If the big comes to help, alley-oop!
 
SwingDog said:

In this video, Hopkins (who was guarded primarily by Karaban) says FOUR TIMES he took advantage of a mismatch. That needs to be rectified and necessary in-games adjustments need to be made going forward.
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What he said was: “when there was a mismatch between me and Devin (Carter).” He apparently was not talking about 1:1 match ups with the guy who was his primary defender. If I had to guess, I think he was talking about situations when PC got out on the break and had favorable opportunities with whoever was guarding them after getting back on the break - probably our guards.
 
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August_West said:
This. He's a elite level distributor.

Also it very surprising that Oso Ighodaro is averaging 3.3 assists a game from the 5 spot, he never even averaged 1. Shaka running some nice stuff this year offensively.
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Ighodaro is a very good passer and help defender. I suspect Marquette will double and feint doubling when Sanogo gets the ball in the post. It will be imperative for the players on the perimeter to move well to create a passing lane for Sanogo-Marquette overplays passing lanes and creating deflections and it becomes that much easier for them if players are standing around.
 
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Umami Zen said:
Not as worried about Marquette as I was last two away games.. We have better athletes and stronger D.. Marquette should make the Tourney.. UConn by 10
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I disagree about the 10, but I still like your optimism
 
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