Wisconsin game will be a good test..
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Virginia Lite. I guess if if they manage to slow us way down and we are way off it will be a game. But I think wisconsin is being overvalued. Georgetown is terrible. If we show up like we did last night its lights out.
Smoovey, this is the real test I have wanted to see, how we deal with a team that matches our front court size. Whisky can match our front court size and they have good size coming off their bench, we really only have Tony as a big on our bench. This is a game that we may miss Luke more than any other we have played.
I think this will be a very tough test. They're very patient on offense, don't take bad shots, and don't beat themselves. We want to run at every opportunity. Two polar opposites.
Whoever dictates pace will win.
Whoever dictates pace will win.
Boys, that was never close..it's a nice Thanksgiving this year..we look great! No Theo and our freshmen are a lot better than expected. Roy is the best! Eat some turkey! Go Heels! Ric Flair Wooooooo!
Test 1 - We played 4 games in 6 days and the last 3 on consecutive days. Grade A+
Test 2 - How do we handle a LONG travel road trip? Grade A, Not as sharp vs Hawaii but understandable considering the length of the trip, no shoot around or practice.
Test 3 - How do we play vs a team that scores a lot and loves to push tempo? Grade A+, hello OKey St, good bye Okey St...
Test 4 - How do we react when we get that game the refs feel they need to be more the focus than the players? A+, they did not allow the refs to take them out of their game, great job.
Test 5 - How do we handle a team that tries to be physical with us? A, handled it well but I think we will have harder physical test games down the road.
Test 6 - How do we handle not having Luke or Theo available? A+, don't know that we could have reacted better
Test 7 - How do we handle drastically different styles of play on consecutive nights? A+, you saw it OKy st wide open tempo and Whisky slowed it down, we owned them both.
Test 8 - How will our bigs play vs teams that can match their height? A but maybe A- only in that the bigs we did see were mostly Whisky and they played poorly (we had a lot to do with that). We didn't get a lot of height test for the tourney but we played who we played and we owned them.
Test 9 - Can other teams run with us? A, OKey st thought they could but got educated. IU and Ky will be much better tests of this.
Test 10 - How do we handle a solid zone defense? A, but I think we will see much harder zones throw at us than we got in this tourney, Hicks and Meeks shows the ability to hit the mid range jumpers that Brice destroyed great zones with last season. Extend the zone and we drive on the pressure, sag back and we shoot over the top and work the corners. Going to be hard to zone us with the shooters we have.
That is a pretty darn good GPA for this tourney and this season so far!
Test 2 - How do we handle a LONG travel road trip? Grade A, Not as sharp vs Hawaii but understandable considering the length of the trip, no shoot around or practice.
Test 3 - How do we play vs a team that scores a lot and loves to push tempo? Grade A+, hello OKey St, good bye Okey St...
Test 4 - How do we react when we get that game the refs feel they need to be more the focus than the players? A+, they did not allow the refs to take them out of their game, great job.
Test 5 - How do we handle a team that tries to be physical with us? A, handled it well but I think we will have harder physical test games down the road.
Test 6 - How do we handle not having Luke or Theo available? A+, don't know that we could have reacted better
Test 7 - How do we handle drastically different styles of play on consecutive nights? A+, you saw it OKy st wide open tempo and Whisky slowed it down, we owned them both.
Test 8 - How will our bigs play vs teams that can match their height? A but maybe A- only in that the bigs we did see were mostly Whisky and they played poorly (we had a lot to do with that). We didn't get a lot of height test for the tourney but we played who we played and we owned them.
Test 9 - Can other teams run with us? A, OKey st thought they could but got educated. IU and Ky will be much better tests of this.
Test 10 - How do we handle a solid zone defense? A, but I think we will see much harder zones throw at us than we got in this tourney, Hicks and Meeks shows the ability to hit the mid range jumpers that Brice destroyed great zones with last season. Extend the zone and we drive on the pressure, sag back and we shoot over the top and work the corners. Going to be hard to zone us with the shooters we have.
That is a pretty darn good GPA for this tourney and this season so far!
As I said.. Virginia lite. Wasn't impressed with Wisconsin at all. Still a great win seeing as we had to play at their tempo. Could've won by 30 easily.
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