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Message: [QUOTE="yungdowork, post: 4489189, member: 10371"] As a team, we have definitely exceeded my expectations, but there's a lot of season left. We've had many games where we played far beyond what I would have guessed our ceiling was during the offseason. It does seem like we're playing a bit of a different game since conference play started, but these are the teams who have played against guys like Sanogo and Hawkins 5-6 times at this point. They're throwing bodies at Sanogo and making Jordan run himself ragged if he wants to get a look. It feels like it's completely taken us out of our rhythm. Suddenly, the roleplayers have more pressure on them to create on offense. I do think we could help Newton out a lot by running some on-ball screens for him. At ECU, he was the primary scorer and often the primary ballhandler, so everything ran through him. Right now, it seems like we set a lot of screens for our shooters to get open on the perimeter, and a few backscreens but that's about it. When you watch how teams play vs our defense, it looks, at least to me, like they're setting a lot more on-ball screens so the ballhandler can penetrate and either get a lay up or kick once the defense collapses. I'd love to see guys like Newton, Hawkins, even Andre get a few more of those opportunities, I don't think it's beyond their skillset. [/QUOTE]