Can't quit playing defense. Giving up too many easy buckets. Would like to see us cut this down to 4 to 5 by half.
Well, we cut it to 5, so not a bad close to the half. Need to play the second half with the same defensive intensity we started the game with.
That's how easy little Duke boys are influenced. Give them some ice cream and they're putty in your hands.
When the guy our guy is guarding has the ball, our players play hard. When they are off the ball, our guys relax. In the modern game that small window created by even a slightly delayed reaction is the difference. Wish our guys could find that 40 minutes of defense by 5 guys mentality.
Playing pretty well. Just gotta guard the three. Gotta keep feeding Samuel. They can’t guard him. Richard is going to have to make a couple of big shots. Richard makes a couple big shots we’ve got a really good shot of winning not saying he’s going to take 10 shots a second half he may take four or five but he’s got to hit a couple of threes and he’s got to make his free throws
Really well said as I agree are off the ball defense is not great. I mentioned Will Richard having to make a couple of big shots of second half if he and Riley Kugel can combine for 12 to 14 points a second half. It wouldn’t shock me to see us win. Right now I feel like we are all Pullen and Samuel. Richard has 7 but he’s gotta stay solid and hit open 3’s. defensively we have to outrebound them which we are not doing right now and we have to play good off the ball D.
We are being outrebounded and they are shooting 10% better overall. Going to have to lock those two items down to win.
After the 3 turnovers in first 2 min, only one more rest of half. 4-4 on turnovers. Both teams shooting well from 3.
