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GT defensively made the strategic plan it was going to try to limit Krutwig (by constantly digging the perimeter players to the post) and see if someone else on Loyola would step up and beat us. Given what we had to play with and Loyola stats (Krutwig is the only player on the team that has scored in double figures in more than 1/2 their games) that is a good strategy. Loyola did have players step up and win the game. All you can do is congratulate them on what they did and move on. Even without Moses we made them play left-handed and they won that way.
They are a 35% 3-pt shooting team. They avg 41 percent on a high volume yesterday. All you can do is say good makes and move on.
Not getting offensive rebounds or turning them over was brutal for what we wanted to do. They were very similar in us in terms of offensive rebounding for the year, but killed us yesterday.
Having 12 more offensive rebounds and one fewer TO means Loyola effectively had 13 more possessions than GT (I count a possession as 1 shot - of you get a off rebound, that is a new possession).
It doesn't matter how well you shot, and I was really impressed that we did not settle for many bad shots when we didn't have any interior big, but an opponent having effective a dozen more possessions is almost always going to win.
The plan has always been get old, stay old. There frankly weren't many opportunities to get the young bigs playing time in what was a strange season. It hurt today, but the strategy used was the right one for the year as a whole.
They are a 35% 3-pt shooting team. They avg 41 percent on a high volume yesterday. All you can do is say good makes and move on.
Not getting offensive rebounds or turning them over was brutal for what we wanted to do. They were very similar in us in terms of offensive rebounding for the year, but killed us yesterday.
Having 12 more offensive rebounds and one fewer TO means Loyola effectively had 13 more possessions than GT (I count a possession as 1 shot - of you get a off rebound, that is a new possession).
It doesn't matter how well you shot, and I was really impressed that we did not settle for many bad shots when we didn't have any interior big, but an opponent having effective a dozen more possessions is almost always going to win.
The plan has always been get old, stay old. There frankly weren't many opportunities to get the young bigs playing time in what was a strange season. It hurt today, but the strategy used was the right one for the year as a whole.