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Message: [QUOTE="HuskyHawk, post: 3421742, member: 1414"] I am ever hopeful we can somehow land an NIT bid or win the AAC tournament. Some things have gone right: [LIST] [*]Effort and intensity. Both on D, chasing loose balls [*]Rebounding. Not getting killed. [*]Overall defense, blocks [/LIST] Some have gone wrong [LIST] [*]Shooting. Al is worse, Vital is worse, Josh is worse. Bouknight hasn’t been the shooter we expected. Akok has been miserably bad shooting the ball lately. Adams is better, but not good. Same with Sid. [*]Injuries and luck. Once again we lost Gaff for a bit. Then Polley for the year, now Wilson for a few. Can you survive that? Sure. But it’s hard when your are already short two scholarship players. Our luck has been terrible. Every call or bounce goes against us. We lost our one shooter. [*]Turnovers. This gets harped on but I think there are factors here beyond individual poor decisions. Namely, we can’t shoot. So the lane is clogged. No matter what guard goes in there they face a gauntlet. Second we play fast, which leads to mistakes. We have to play fast because we can’t shoot. [/LIST] Can we solve our problems? If Bouk suddenly shoots 38% from 3, Vital goes back to 40% and Al and Adams to about 36% with Akok getting his overall FG% closer 50%. Yes, we’d win games. [/QUOTE]