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Message: [QUOTE="REB1094, post: 5222752, member: 12147"] The 2023 team had glaring weaknesses that were mostly buttoned up by late January/early February. imo, the switch flipped in H2 of the Xavier home game when Sanogo started running the offense at the perimeter so teams couldn’t just ignore AJax to overload the paint. Ironically enough, the C having the ball at the perimeter is one of our major frustrations this year I don’t think the glaring weaknesses have been fixed this year, and it might just be a personnel issue Not going to beat the dead horse on misjudging several players, but I’m not sure what playbook adjustment can be made on March 16th to help the team score. Our only playmakers are Liam (can catch fire at any time but frankly has been inconsistent and has regressed to <40% shooting) and Diarra (6th man with 1 functioning leg who was forced into the role). I understand the computers love our offense, but my eyes notice how many times we need to fight an uphill battle because we couldn’t score for 5 minutes and the opposing team went up double digits. This includes inferior competition like Nova, GTown, DePaul Our defense doesn’t need as much detail. It’s not good and a much bigger issue. When the team gives a full 40 minutes of focused and high effort defense, it doesn’t look too bad. But that rarely happens I think this team is a coin flip right now. If we’re 100% on, we look really good and can make a run. If we’re off for 5-10 minutes this week, we’re getting rolled in the 8/9 game So I’m just going to sit back, enjoy the ride, and cheer on my favorite team :) [/QUOTE]

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