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Message: [QUOTE="AdamaNation, post: 2496164, member: 6793"] Look. We played hard for most of the game. Played very good defense. Hit our foul shots for the most part. Didn’t have 20 turnovers. Actually passed a little and were a bit aggressive on both ends. Ollie had a plan that was within our players abilities. The issues were we cannot shoot. You cannot coach that in one summer,if so ,not enough to raise a whole team up 7-10% for the season. They returned an entire team that was very good last year with a load of seniors. We have 7 newcomers, and three( now 2) injured returnees, who have played 2 months together. I felt a lot better today. Now the real trick is playing well and as intense next game. Ollie seems to really be bailing water at this point while trying to keep his guys calm and teach a little. He was active and called timeouts at the right times today. This was just a better team. Funny that we played up to our to competition for 1/2 if MSU and 37 minutes today. Fatigue probably set in too. This is the first game I really felt the loss of Gilbert for speed ball handling perimeter defense and sharing minutes. [/QUOTE]