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WSU pulled Akok away from the hoop on defense neutralizing his shot blocking. We did not adjust to that by having him guard the center until we went small.
Polley’s injury is an opportunity for Sidney to get out of the doghouse. So far, so good. He made some athletic plays and minimized mental mistakes. After a good first half Hurley waited almost half the second half before playing him. Then WOW!!!!!! Hit the big 3 late and did other good things.
We were in the double bonus for almost 5 minutes I. The first half but did not capitalize with numerous misses from the line. Again, more work is needed in practice on foul shots. Lots of easy to fix mechanical issues and Josh standing at the line for what seemed like 15 seconds during a stoppage rather than walk off the line and come back to it - easy to fix. But, Josh hung tough and knocked down two big ones in OT. Indeed.
Gilbert did some good things but again some real head scratching plays that a guy at his stage of his career should not be making including the last play of the first half where he basically ran the clock out after we got momentum on Sidney’s dunk.
Chief needs to be careful not to over analyze. We need shooters and so far we haven’t recruited any except maybe RJ Cole. You can’t win if you can’t shoot.
Good comeback, Chief likes the effort. Tough to win when your center leads the team in assists at the end of the first half with two and the other team shoots 20% better from the field.
Akok never got involved in the game until late why do most of our posts opportunities go to Josh? Time to run more plays for Akok.
Chief thought Vital played a very good game. Josh needs to do more with two hands on put backs. The one hand stuff isn’t working.
WSU is one of the better coached teams you will see at XL. They played with a purpose, took advantage of our weaknesses (post defense and our guard’s height) and took Akok out of the game. They defended well, ran crisp downhill plays to scoring opportunities and made us pay at the line.
WSU was vulnerable to the press and we played better, at least today, without Josh in the lineup.
The officiating crew sucked during regulation and overtime. Our foul shooting compared to theirs was even worse. Foul shooting, a lack of 3’s and AG’s wild turnovers were the difference. Too bad because he played great on the ball defense today.
Polley’s injury is an opportunity for Sidney to get out of the doghouse. So far, so good. He made some athletic plays and minimized mental mistakes. After a good first half Hurley waited almost half the second half before playing him. Then WOW!!!!!! Hit the big 3 late and did other good things.
We were in the double bonus for almost 5 minutes I. The first half but did not capitalize with numerous misses from the line. Again, more work is needed in practice on foul shots. Lots of easy to fix mechanical issues and Josh standing at the line for what seemed like 15 seconds during a stoppage rather than walk off the line and come back to it - easy to fix. But, Josh hung tough and knocked down two big ones in OT. Indeed.
Gilbert did some good things but again some real head scratching plays that a guy at his stage of his career should not be making including the last play of the first half where he basically ran the clock out after we got momentum on Sidney’s dunk.
Chief needs to be careful not to over analyze. We need shooters and so far we haven’t recruited any except maybe RJ Cole. You can’t win if you can’t shoot.
Good comeback, Chief likes the effort. Tough to win when your center leads the team in assists at the end of the first half with two and the other team shoots 20% better from the field.
Akok never got involved in the game until late why do most of our posts opportunities go to Josh? Time to run more plays for Akok.
Chief thought Vital played a very good game. Josh needs to do more with two hands on put backs. The one hand stuff isn’t working.
WSU is one of the better coached teams you will see at XL. They played with a purpose, took advantage of our weaknesses (post defense and our guard’s height) and took Akok out of the game. They defended well, ran crisp downhill plays to scoring opportunities and made us pay at the line.
WSU was vulnerable to the press and we played better, at least today, without Josh in the lineup.
The officiating crew sucked during regulation and overtime. Our foul shooting compared to theirs was even worse. Foul shooting, a lack of 3’s and AG’s wild turnovers were the difference. Too bad because he played great on the ball defense today.
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