hammb wrote: ↑Wed Jan 19, 2022 8:45 am
At some point you're going to have to find a way to dig in and get stops, but certainly the defensive issues aren't nearly as glaring when you're actually moving the ball and scoring at a high clip.
Watching the first 10-15 mins of that game nobody would have thought for a second we'd score 90 points. Hell I wasn't sure we'd score 60. We see outbursts like that and it is obvious that we have some offensive talent, we just don't execute or seem to have a plan for way too many long stretches of just about every game. Those are the stretches where a good team would use its defense to stay in it (which we sort of did last night by not letting NIU really score either in those first 10 minutes), but I just don't know that we'll ever have enough defensive ability on the court to do that consistently against good teams.
Still, that was a good win, was nice to see the offense look cohesive and explode. This game was further evidence that I'd much rather see Matiss backing up Reece than O'Neal. Fulcher played well. Gordon played well. Plowden was as good as he's ever been in that 2nd half. Curtis was maybe our best player over the entire game. Hope to see the offense looking that smooth against Akron.
And Diggs only had one "I dribbled too much, oops" moment, with a bunch of "I was where I should be, took the shot I should take, and scored". Heck, when Plowden was out in the 1st half, he actually skied for a rebound more than once. I legit didn't really know he could do that.
