One of those games. You plug a hole and another leak pops up.
Defend incredibly for the first ten minutes, but only score 24 first half points.
Defend incredibly hard AGAIN and get the game tied second half, but completely unable to defensive rebound going with Jefferson at the 5 the rest of the game.
Double teaming ourselves into the game to get back into it in regulation, then completely unnecessarily double teaming ourselves into 5- and 4-point holes to begin each overtime.
It really feels like our players have not come close to putting a full game together all season. The staff certainly hasn’t even come close to it. We don’t step on throats when up big. We don’t finish games well. We don’t call timeouts to end large runs. We force double teams when they’re not needed, and end up giving up wide open threes because our scramble defense isn’t good enough to scramble back into the play.
I don’t have answers other than an increase in talent being needed. The color commentator said every one of TJ’s ISU teams have overachieved compared to their talent, and I generally agree with that. Realistically, our talent needs to be better. It’s so, so tough to consistently perform at a high level as a team that has Jackson and Chat playing as much as they do. The talent just has to get better there specifically.
Defend incredibly for the first ten minutes, but only score 24 first half points.
Defend incredibly hard AGAIN and get the game tied second half, but completely unable to defensive rebound going with Jefferson at the 5 the rest of the game.
Double teaming ourselves into the game to get back into it in regulation, then completely unnecessarily double teaming ourselves into 5- and 4-point holes to begin each overtime.
It really feels like our players have not come close to putting a full game together all season. The staff certainly hasn’t even come close to it. We don’t step on throats when up big. We don’t finish games well. We don’t call timeouts to end large runs. We force double teams when they’re not needed, and end up giving up wide open threes because our scramble defense isn’t good enough to scramble back into the play.
I don’t have answers other than an increase in talent being needed. The color commentator said every one of TJ’s ISU teams have overachieved compared to their talent, and I generally agree with that. Realistically, our talent needs to be better. It’s so, so tough to consistently perform at a high level as a team that has Jackson and Chat playing as much as they do. The talent just has to get better there specifically.
