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[QUOTE="freescooter, post: 4842565, member: 1023"]
My view is, of course, a bit different.  On both ends our approach was built around Clingan.  With him out we have been fortunate to play some of the mediocre to poor teams in the league while we make adjustments to our style.  Instead of Marquette and Creighton we got Butler and DePaul and St John’s during this stretch where we need to modify our style.  The injury cost us the Seton Hall game and we have struggled some in the others, well not against mid-D2 DePaul, but that is to be expected when a team is adjusting to playing without a key piece.  In this case, it is literally the centerpiece of our style.  His ability to control the inside allowed our d to play more aggressively.  On offense his presence caused teams to try to stop him by cheating inside leaving more space for other guys to operate.  It isn’t an accident that Newton, for example went from shooting 40%+ to 25,0,28 in the last 3 games.  We will win this game.  Xavier is another blah team.  Probably be closer than  we would like, but possibly tonight will be the night the adjustments finally click.  It looked like they were close in the 2nd half of the Butler game.  If it does, this will be an easy win.
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