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Message: [QUOTE="Pudge, post: 4200998, member: 364"] Some said we are mediocre and not much better than St. John's today. I take the contrarian view: GD Adama Sanogo has kinda learned to pass from the inside out (he's gone from a 1 to about a 5 on scale of 1-10 from XMAS); it is beyond time he gets scripted specific instructions on what he cannot do on the interior with refs watching. IF ... we are allowed to go the whole first half with Sanogo not having 2 fouls (or let's just say 15-16 minutes in), we can be a diverse interior strong team with good principles on the perimeter. And a solid Hawkins + Polley (or just one). Then you are beyond most MM teams. Grinding through tight games with some probability of loss is coming with little Sanogo or others because of Fouls. We need to play our identity on Defense. Maybe Sanogo needs to be told to not be part of that. Dial it down on your intensity because reaching outside the paint and coming through on guys with the ball inside ... is too often. [/QUOTE]