Earlier this week I posted that ND would create some of the same issues defensively for us that NC ST did. Primarily they had guards who could penetrate and multiple perimeter shooters.
The Cards have not stopped dribble penetration all year and we don't rotate well. So someone ends up with a good shot.
Most of our problems come back to mental mistakes. Here are a few examples from last lights game.
Early 1st half (may have been their 1st basket) Trez is guarding a shooter at the 3 point line. A cutter goes behind him and inexplicably Trez leaves the shooter and follows the cutter. The guy is wide open and nails the 3. I have seen our guys do that several times this year and we always get burned. You never leave a shooter.
On our press allowing them to throw over top for an easy basket. All of our 5's and Trez have been guilty of this multiple time this year. Mango allows it to happen a lot We allowed this to happen right after we took the 47-46 lead. ND was having trouble scoring in the half court to open the second half and we let them have this little easy basket. That's when the momentum swung back to ND.
There was more than one occasion in the second half some guys were playing zone and some man to man. And I'm pretty sure that was not by design.
Offensively we have no patience. In another post someone asked if Chris Jones was in Terry's uniform last night. I was wondering the same thing. Terry takes way too many difficult shots. And last night those shots and turnovers trying to get those shots led to run outs and easy baskets for ND, especially in the first half.
I am afraid this is going to be a very short post season.
This post was edited on 3/5 7:18 AM by rentalman
The Cards have not stopped dribble penetration all year and we don't rotate well. So someone ends up with a good shot.
Most of our problems come back to mental mistakes. Here are a few examples from last lights game.
Early 1st half (may have been their 1st basket) Trez is guarding a shooter at the 3 point line. A cutter goes behind him and inexplicably Trez leaves the shooter and follows the cutter. The guy is wide open and nails the 3. I have seen our guys do that several times this year and we always get burned. You never leave a shooter.
On our press allowing them to throw over top for an easy basket. All of our 5's and Trez have been guilty of this multiple time this year. Mango allows it to happen a lot We allowed this to happen right after we took the 47-46 lead. ND was having trouble scoring in the half court to open the second half and we let them have this little easy basket. That's when the momentum swung back to ND.
There was more than one occasion in the second half some guys were playing zone and some man to man. And I'm pretty sure that was not by design.
Offensively we have no patience. In another post someone asked if Chris Jones was in Terry's uniform last night. I was wondering the same thing. Terry takes way too many difficult shots. And last night those shots and turnovers trying to get those shots led to run outs and easy baskets for ND, especially in the first half.
I am afraid this is going to be a very short post season.
This post was edited on 3/5 7:18 AM by rentalman
