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Message: [QUOTE="6Nattys4Us, post: 5220581, member: 13819"] In general, our perimeter defense is keyed at the top of the arc, not the wings or angles. In particular, Reed, Jr. or Sampson rushes to try to help then has to get back to defend the hoop. This is leaving Alex and Liam vulnerable to wing 3s as they are covering for the vacancy in the middle and have to hedge. Solo is not a big guard, so even at 6'3" he has to fight to get around high screens and can barely manage a hand in the general vicinity of the shooter. He and Mahaney had an interesting night on defense, with Mahaney getting a few more individual (e.g., 1:1) wins (stole the ball and got an easy bucket, played immense 1:1 D on a drive and they missed). Otherwise I thought the refs were much more even in our game than the DePaul vs Creighton game. We got Tarris Reed, Jr., tossing Dixon and not getting a whistle (and Tarris looked generally surprised), but some clean blocks were called fouls, and some out of bounds went against us. But DePaul got zero calls, and even if a replay showed they got screwed they got no benefits...none. Refs were in Creighton's pocket. I did not like the goaltending against us, as they never showed it again @ MSG and the refs reviewed and just went with the floor whistle against us. Not sure if on TV they showed it. At least this Hurley Technical didn't cost us the game. We dominated from mid 2nd half on. [/QUOTE]