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Message: [QUOTE="BostonCanuck, post: 2670289, member: 6931"] Some great points on our defense, especially about Z and how our general guarding of their half-court sets was not up to snuff. My initial take-away about the defense after the game was that, hey, once you take away all the disruptive stuff like turnovers and transition points usually generated from our back-court press and pass-denial pressure, our defense maybe isn't all that great. But I am not ready to let the offense off the hook entirely. The Huskies could not drop 80 during regulation, and that's with our "starting six" on the floor the entire 40 minutes, in a game where Geno never called off the dogs, nor put bench players in for garbage time. That is shocking to me. A good team like Notre Dame is going to score points on you, no matter what. Your offense has to respond, and at too many important stages in the game, the Huskies could not. The Notre Dame run in the second half, where they steadily chipped away at the lead, begged for a scoring response from the Husky offense that never came. We did make some big plays late to delay losing the game, but that's about it. No one on this board is asking for the Husky offense to be "completely overhauled", just for some gaps to be recognized and hopefully addressed. Also, after watching what Notre Dame did in the final, I'm reminded how Geno said in his post-game presser that talent is not enough to secure a national championship during the Final Four weekend. You also need one or two great players to step up and make big plays and/or dominate the game. Notre Dame clearly had that this weekend in Arike and Jackie. [/QUOTE]

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