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We needed offense in the second half and Polley sat roughly for the last 3 minutes and 30 seconds. We needed his shooting and our offense played better with him on the court. He came in down 4 with ~15 seconds left
 
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Nova scored 3 points total in the last 3:30, all on free throws with less than 15 seconds left. We scored 7 points. We held them scoreless for 3 key minutes after we took him out.

This is not the angle.
And if you put Polley in you're taking out Whaley who kept us in the game with his defense. We're now looking for storylines on why Hurley screwed up. His in game coaching and feel for the game is clearly getting much better.
 

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how many games have we won scoring 60 this season? We came back in the first half because Polley played with either Sanogo or Whaley. We’re down 7 with 4 left and we needed to score. We got stops bc Hurley changed the defense. Man to man was getting us shredded. Credit to Hurley for switching it up
 
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We needed offense in the second half and Polley sat roughly for the last 3 minutes and 30 seconds. We needed his shooting and our offense played better with him on the court. He came in down 4 with ~15 seconds left
Polley was too busy missing wide open threes tonight
 
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how many games have we won scoring 60 this season? We came back in the first half because Polley played with either Sanogo or Whaley. We’re down 7 with 4 left and we needed to score. We got stops bc Hurley changed the defense. Man to man was getting us shredded. Credit to Hurley for switching it up
This was the slowest possession game we played all season (it happens, post season games slow down as teams focus in and get back on D and are more careful with the ball in general).

We scored more points per possession tonight (1.05) than In 6 of our 8 losses. Only the first Seton Hall game and Nova games (extended garbage time helped) did we have better offense in a loss. Offense was not as big a problem as the 60 points makes it seem.

Auburn, first Seton Hall, @Nova, @Xavier, H-Nova, and tonight are the only teams to score over 1.10 points per possession against us. Well also home Georgetown, but that was only because they got those 4 layups at the end. You'll notice that Nova is on that short list 3 times. There's a reason they are a top 10 offense in the country.
 
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This was the slowest possession game we played all season (it happens, post season games slow down as teams focus in and get back on D and are more careful with the ball in general).

We scored more points per possession tonight (1.05) than In 6 of our 8 losses. Only the Seton Hall game and first Nova game (extended garbage time helped) did we have better offense in a loss.

Offense was not as big a problem as the 60 points makes it seem.
Fair. But we have won one game this season scoring 64 or less, Seton Hall last night. Without Aiken and a damaged Richmond.

Our defense is very good. This team needs more scoring. Some games require us to put Polley or even Hawkins in for Sanogo or Whaley.
 

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Nova scored 3 points total in the last 3:30, all on free throws with less than 15 seconds left. We scored 7 points. We held them scoreless for 3 key minutes after we took him out.

This is not the angle.
Lol. 3 of those 7 points were on a terrible AJ brick that the hand of JC guided in. Don’t pretend we were scoring down the stretch. Our starting lineup is very good defensively and very challenged offensively. You’re a numbers guy . Pull up one of those genius sites that has our best offensive lineups. I promise you it is not Whaley, Sanogo, Martin, Cole and AJ. I have a feeling you know this already. When you are down 5 points you need to actually score the ball. Otherwise you just get stops and Lose by the amount you are down by.
 
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Nova scored 3 points total in the last 3:30, all on free throws with less than 15 seconds left. We scored 7 points. We held them scoreless for 3 key minutes after we took him out.

This is not the angle.
Tje flip side of that coin, nova wasn't trying to score. Just killing clock. We needed points.
 
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Fair. But we have won one game this season scoring 64 or less, Seton Hall last night. Without Aiken and a damaged Richmond.

Our defense is very good. This team needs more scoring. Some games require us to put Polley or even Hawkins in for Sanogo or Whaley.
Hawkins makes this offense much harder to defend. We can’t forget that he’s been out. Add him and we can beat anybody.
 
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Lol. 3 of those 7 points were on a terrible AJ brick that the hand of JC guided in. Don’t pretend we were scoring down the stretch. Our starting lineup is very good defensively and very challenged offensively. You’re a numbers guy . Pull up one of those genius sites that has our best offensive lineups. I promise you it is not Whaley, Sanogo, Martin, Cole and AJ. I have a feeling you know this already. When you are down 5 points you need to actually score the ball. Otherwise you just get stops and Lose by the amount you are down by.
Nova didn't score in the final 5:02 until we had to foul with seconds left. The defense gave us our chances to score and Whaley was the biggest part of that with 2 huge blocks. You put Polley in and you're taking Whaley out, Wright was targeting Polley. Sanogo missed another couple layups, Cole shot an airball wide open three, Tyrese missed a wide open 3. Refs missed a foul on Sanogo's rebound which would've put him on the line for 2 ft's. We had plenty of chances because of our defense at the end of the game. It just didn't work out.
 
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Fair. But we have won one game this season scoring 64 or less, Seton Hall last night.
We’ve won 3.

Also, Polley doesn’t move much without the ball and Nova was not giving him open looks down the stretch. Hard to fault the tactics that got us back to a one possession game with a minute to go.
 

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Nova didn't score in the final 5:02 until we had to foul with seconds left. The defense gave us our chances to score and Whaley was the biggest part of that with 2 huge blocks. You put Polley in and you're taking Whaley out, Wright was targeting Polley. Sanogo missed another couple layups, Cole shot an airball wide open three, Tyrese missed a wide open 3. Refs missed a foul on Sanogo's rebound which would've put him on the line for 2 ft's. We had plenty of chances because of our defense at the end of the game. It just didn't work out.
No . Sanogo should’ve been out not Whaley.
 

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We’ve won 3.

Also, Polley doesn’t move much without the ball and Nova was not giving him open looks down the stretch. Hard to fault the tactics that got us back to a one possession game with a minute to go.
Yeah no idea why I said 1. I think it’s 3-4, 4-4. The teams were either not at full strength or bottom of the barrel. Scoring 64 points or less isn’t good. To win, you need to score points and be confident you will.

We scored 60 points. The tactics that worked were when he changed the defense up (a bit too late) and took Cole off Gillespie. Defense wasn’t the problem. Scoring is and was. We would’ve lost by 6 or more if we didn’t get that Jackson lucky bounce
 
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Yeah no idea why I said 1. I think it’s 3-4, 4-4. The teams were either not at full strength or bottom of the barrel. Scoring 64 points or less isn’t good. To win, you need to score points and be confident you will.

We scored 60 points. The tactics that worked were when he changed the defense up (a bit too late) and took Cole off Gillespie. Defense wasn’t the problem. Scoring is and was. We would’ve lost by 6 or more if we didn’t get that Jackson lucky bounce
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