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[QUOTE="Billy Jack, post: 4504265, member: 4173"]
The premise for this thread is a complete fiction. Fans are spending energy to explain something which doesn’t exist. We can nitpick the flaws in anyone’s defense because everyon’e game has flaws; no one is perfect. But the recent losses have not been due to major failures by the defense.

There are 2 factors which immediately stand out in these 4 losses.

1) In 3 of them UConn had a high number of turnovers, much higher than their opponent - 21, 16, and 16. Those do not represent defensive failures but are killers to any teams efforts to win games.

2) Two of the 4 losses - Xavier & Marquette - were to two of the best shooting teams in the country. When teams like that shoot over 50% at home, that’s not the sign of a failing defense. It’s simply what they do against everybody. It’s their normal.

There were other factors which contributed to each individual loss:

St. John’s - 21 turnovers vs 10 for SJU.

Marquette - We shot 6-22 (27%) on 3’s. MU shot 84% on FT’s, way above(their normal 70%.

Providence - we shot 22% on 3’s and 52% from the line.

Xavier - We took 15 more shots than Xavier & missed everyone of them! Shot 44% from the line.
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