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<blockquote data-quote="orientalnc" data-source="post: 133411" data-attributes="member: 1199"><p>My read on the game:</p><p></p><p>As mentioned earlier, too many close in shots missed. When you have issues scoring points, these shots have to be made. Cox sometimes looks like he's not sure where the hoop is located.</p><p></p><p>We were up by 12 at the half, but Wake could not buy a shot early. They were getting good looks and simply missing. Then we started the second really hot before cooling off a lot. Those two spurts were the difference. Otherwise, Wake outscored us by eight points. This Jekyll and Hyde personality is troublesome, especial when we find our nadir in the final five minutes of close games.</p><p></p><p>If I were a Wake fan I would call in to the Danny Manning show this week and ask him why he was playing GT man-to-man. As it turned out, the strategy worked pretty well for Wake. We got very few offensive rebounds as a result and our bigs were not very effective offensively. But, we got a lot of open looks today that we don't normally get.</p><p></p><p>So, what happened is our outside shooters found their game. What seemed different today was our 3-point shots did not seem to be panic shots as the 35-second clock was expiring. Bolden and Q had several catch and shoot opportunities that seemed to flow nicely with the pace of the game.</p><p></p><p>The defense pushed Wake to the shot clock limit several times and harassed their guards the entire game. I also thought Cox/Mitchell/Sampson kept Thomas at bay very well. And this was maybe the worst game I have seen Codi Miller-McIntyre play.</p><p></p><p>All-in-all a good game. The question always comes back to our ability to make shots. I think, otherwise, we are actually a good enough team that we ought to be 9-2 in the conference. Why are we failing when it matters most in these close games? Certainly shooting deficiencies are part of the problem, but we have failed on defense during some of those final five minutes of horror in close games. And, we can be very sloppy with the basketball at times. We do not lack the ability, but something in this puzzle is not fitting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="orientalnc, post: 133411, member: 1199"] My read on the game: As mentioned earlier, too many close in shots missed. When you have issues scoring points, these shots have to be made. Cox sometimes looks like he's not sure where the hoop is located. We were up by 12 at the half, but Wake could not buy a shot early. They were getting good looks and simply missing. Then we started the second really hot before cooling off a lot. Those two spurts were the difference. Otherwise, Wake outscored us by eight points. This Jekyll and Hyde personality is troublesome, especial when we find our nadir in the final five minutes of close games. If I were a Wake fan I would call in to the Danny Manning show this week and ask him why he was playing GT man-to-man. As it turned out, the strategy worked pretty well for Wake. We got very few offensive rebounds as a result and our bigs were not very effective offensively. But, we got a lot of open looks today that we don't normally get. So, what happened is our outside shooters found their game. What seemed different today was our 3-point shots did not seem to be panic shots as the 35-second clock was expiring. Bolden and Q had several catch and shoot opportunities that seemed to flow nicely with the pace of the game. The defense pushed Wake to the shot clock limit several times and harassed their guards the entire game. I also thought Cox/Mitchell/Sampson kept Thomas at bay very well. And this was maybe the worst game I have seen Codi Miller-McIntyre play. All-in-all a good game. The question always comes back to our ability to make shots. I think, otherwise, we are actually a good enough team that we ought to be 9-2 in the conference. Why are we failing when it matters most in these close games? Certainly shooting deficiencies are part of the problem, but we have failed on defense during some of those final five minutes of horror in close games. And, we can be very sloppy with the basketball at times. We do not lack the ability, but something in this puzzle is not fitting. [/QUOTE]
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