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<blockquote data-quote="YlJacket" data-source="post: 685096" data-attributes="member: 2784"><p>The NCAA overtly dumped the "last 10 games" stat for making the tourney and stated it is now "body of work". No brownie points for closing better.</p><p>Lots of teams play 7 - few have their starters routinely average over 35 min. Especially the backcourt. </p><p></p><p>Last night was good basketball. In isolation there isn't anything to go after CJP about - certainly not the way this thread is. And I agree with others we are playing good basketball over the last several games - not winning basketball but generally good basketball. We are playing good defense and playing with a lot of energy on defense which is really a credit to the coaching and team given the results to date. Would be easy to pack it in as the postseason looks almost impossible at this stage. </p><p></p><p>Turnovers are indeed killing us. I think it is part coaching but also goes back to the fact we have a black hole at the 3 as far as shooting is concerned. We can't kick to Usher and have him shoot which causes Jose and DeVoe to have to focus way more than they should at driving to create a shot - or having Usher make another headlong drive to the rim with a likely TO rather than shooting the ball. It puts pressure on everything - especially when we are not good at pushing tempo for anything easy. throw in Banks with hands from the smithy and Moses trying to do too much and wala - TO galore recipe. </p><p></p><p>But I also think the amount of time our starters are playing - especially Jose and DeVoe - are leading to TOs and our general inability to close at the end. There is a gray area between "playing deep into the bench" and having your starting backcourt play 37 and 39 minutes respectively. I do think he needs to find a way to sit Jose and DeVoe for a couple of minutes each half to get their time under 35 min. It is totally unprovable (either way) but my opinion is that playing straight through the game is why our offensive scheme degenerated from the start where we had crisp passing and open shots to the high pick and drive like hell with one pass offense we had at the end. It is also my opinion that DeVoe had just enough tired legs at the end to badly miss the open 3 that led to the run out for LV and also not really be close on the final shot he took (no real issue with the shot - just don't think he had the legs to make it).</p><p></p><p>There is no way to definitively answer the issue - so CJP's approach is what he gets to live with and it is defensible whether I agree or not. He has to live with the results way more than I do. But it is also a legit question to say we do better with some rest to backcourt recognizing there is no way to prove it either way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="YlJacket, post: 685096, member: 2784"] The NCAA overtly dumped the "last 10 games" stat for making the tourney and stated it is now "body of work". No brownie points for closing better. Lots of teams play 7 - few have their starters routinely average over 35 min. Especially the backcourt. Last night was good basketball. In isolation there isn't anything to go after CJP about - certainly not the way this thread is. And I agree with others we are playing good basketball over the last several games - not winning basketball but generally good basketball. We are playing good defense and playing with a lot of energy on defense which is really a credit to the coaching and team given the results to date. Would be easy to pack it in as the postseason looks almost impossible at this stage. Turnovers are indeed killing us. I think it is part coaching but also goes back to the fact we have a black hole at the 3 as far as shooting is concerned. We can't kick to Usher and have him shoot which causes Jose and DeVoe to have to focus way more than they should at driving to create a shot - or having Usher make another headlong drive to the rim with a likely TO rather than shooting the ball. It puts pressure on everything - especially when we are not good at pushing tempo for anything easy. throw in Banks with hands from the smithy and Moses trying to do too much and wala - TO galore recipe. But I also think the amount of time our starters are playing - especially Jose and DeVoe - are leading to TOs and our general inability to close at the end. There is a gray area between "playing deep into the bench" and having your starting backcourt play 37 and 39 minutes respectively. I do think he needs to find a way to sit Jose and DeVoe for a couple of minutes each half to get their time under 35 min. It is totally unprovable (either way) but my opinion is that playing straight through the game is why our offensive scheme degenerated from the start where we had crisp passing and open shots to the high pick and drive like hell with one pass offense we had at the end. It is also my opinion that DeVoe had just enough tired legs at the end to badly miss the open 3 that led to the run out for LV and also not really be close on the final shot he took (no real issue with the shot - just don't think he had the legs to make it). There is no way to definitively answer the issue - so CJP's approach is what he gets to live with and it is defensible whether I agree or not. He has to live with the results way more than I do. But it is also a legit question to say we do better with some rest to backcourt recognizing there is no way to prove it either way. [/QUOTE]
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