Exactly. Immediate results. Only thing is we didn’t convert the turnovers.
My post was in response to someone else suggesting putting AJax on Cole so it was about our man to man matchups. The zone worked in a short burst sample size. Playing a defense we seldom play against a team as disciplined as Nova for 40 minutes would have been a bold move and most likely have been surgically destroyed by Wright and Nova players.
They constantly hit WIDE open looks and it ripped our throats out. Them wide open 3’s turned into 30 points or more. So what would be the difference you feel me? For some reason we like to think we play them good man to man. We don’t they always get wherever they want to do n the court. Gillespie literally dribbles all the way to under the basket. Our defense broke down over and over again.
We held their three best 3 point shooters (43%, 40%, 36%) to 2-13 from 3 and 7/24 from the field.
How many 1-2 foot point blank shots were missed by UConn? How many free throws were missed? A lot came during crucial/momentum swinging moments as well. Ball game.
How is giving up wide open 3’s to kids good enough to play college basketball fine? Like they coach just said. We let Slater and them get their shots, and they burned us.
Rewatch the last two Creighton games against us and the UConn vs. Nova game at the XL let me know what you see and then let me know who won those games.
If they don’t get half them wide open 3’s, mathematically how could they have won???
Didn’t matter. Nova can exploit switches . Put AJon Gillespie and then a few other nova players can post Cole . Just a tough matchup for RJ across the board against Jays system.
Pretty much what Big Ern said. Our man to man D is a team strength and along with rebounding what we hang our hat on. We aren't gonna just abandon it in the Big East tourney semis. If you want to say we should have tried the zone earlier, I will buy that. Just know Wright would have made an adjustment eventually and probably had us running around like fools. It worked because it was a surprise for the last few minutes and was a small sample size. They scored only 62 points any way.
they are a top-10 team -- you have to give something up when you guard them. hurley had a choice to give up buckets in the post or three-point attempts from bad shooters, and he chose the latter.
See this is the problem. People really think our man to man defense is just so dominant. It is against certain teams. We ain’t played Villanova 1 single time this year and had complete control of the game. Villanova wants to break you down and kick for wide open shots. We actually be giving them exactly what they want. They are not a big team, and we are one of the better rebounding teams in the country. I’m telling y’all playing an extended zone against them would do wonders for us.
You are assuming playing an extended zone is something we do well, or do at all for the most part. In theory I get what you are saying. In execution, it probably would have been a disaster over a whole game. Nova is experienced, smart, well coached and can shoot you out of a good zone in a jiffy. You think Nova has never seen an extended zone before? If it was some giant achilles heel, everyone would be throwing a zone at them.
We DONT PLAY MAN TO MAN WELL against them!!! Everybody ain’t long and as athletic as us either. Everybody doesn’t rebound good as us either.
I think we are just gonna have to agree to disagree here and go our seperate ways. They are a tough cover and we gave up 63 points. Wasn't the disaster you make it out to be and wasn't the reason we lost. Have a nice evening.
It’s our starting lineup that can’t handle them. We played better with Polley in over Whaley or Sanogo
Did we shut them down from 3 or did Jay say let’s go inside. Gillespie dominated the second half. Best player on the court
I mean they didn’t go in but didn’t we give up like 2-3 open looks from three in the zone? I feel like Daniels got off two and maybe someone else in the corner? We disrupted them a bit and they still swung it around until they found the open man.
Not sure your issue with this post about UConn simply not scoring tonight and hence the loss- it’s true. Besides Tyrese, no one was lighting it up tonight. Nova is a team that shoots well and doesn’t turn it over. If we have a cold night, it’s tough to win.