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Message: [QUOTE="Lefty2one, post: 4142536, member: 1001"] Calling out the defensive effort when you hold the opposition under 40% FG is rich. Sure, there were some poor stretches, but our defense is near the bottom of the list of reasons that we lost this game. Seems like a coaching platitude out of Hurley. We shot what, 15% in the first half? 31% for the game. We have one reliable/consistent backcourt player and he's a Howard transfer. Martin is reasonably reliable but has his duds, and he's a URI transfer. If you want to know if we're going to win a game all you have to do is look at the trio of Polley, Gaffney, and Hawkins. In our three losses they've combined for... 173 minutes 45 points 15% FG (7/45) That is absurd. Hurley has to get a shorter leash with Polley and Gaff and mix up the lineup more. To overcome this, we need Cole or Sanogo to be dominant. If they aren't, most games will be a coin toss. Yesterday we lost that toss: we couldn't throw the ball in the ocean, missed clutch FT, had butterfingers at the wrong time. We are still relatively early in the season and without Sanogo, but there are glaring flaws with this roster (that many acknowledged going into the season) and they aren't being minimalized thanks to Hurley's coaching. [/QUOTE]