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Message: [QUOTE="nwhoopfan, post: 2964735, member: 7894"] Last years USC wasn't a great team, but they put a TON of pressure on ballhandlers and forced TO's constantly. They were a nightmare team to play against, very quick, very physical. Pushed the envelope on physical contact on defense. Their defense last year was better than what I saw from MSU last night, easily. ASU is another team that has a long history of playing stingy defense and aren't much fun to play against. I'm not sure why you keep insisting MSU's defense was so good when they gave up drives down the lane all night long. That was terrible defense collectively. It centered around the poor strategy of having McCowan hedging at the top of the key, but apparently nobody else was rotating over or recovering or anything else to cut off those drives. If MSU's D was solely responsible for Ionescu's 5-18 performance, how do you explain Cazorla and Hebard both going 7-10? Ducks shot 25-49 (51%) overall. Great D? [/QUOTE]