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Topic: Can't teach SIZE.

Topic: Can't teach SIZE.

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Bobcatzblitz
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Can't teach SIZE.

Posted: 2/24/2013 4:58:57 AM

This will be a successful team if the jump shots are falling..if not there is no size inside to fuel a long run.

Monroe Slavin
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RE: Can't teach SIZE.

Posted: 2/24/2013 5:54:26 AM

My view on tonight is that a good team did a pretty good job of defensing our 3balls, leaving us to score from the other parts of our offense.

Seems like our 3ball shots were contested, Belmont's not so much.

Our defensive strategy of hedging was beaten (by, as borna said in chat, their vertical passes) leaving us scrambling and a ball movement behind their offense. Open shots long and at the rim for Belmont.

They played a splendid game.

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RE: Can't teach SIZE.

Posted: 2/24/2013 10:00:49 AM

We have two senior forwards who are both 6'9"....often times they're both on the floor together, so I'm not sure what you're trying to say about our size. We play in the MAC, where teams are far from huge, so that should be plenty of size. The problem is that this team has absolutely no desire what so ever to rebound the basketball/defend around the rim. Rebounding is all effort. It's about toughness, positioning, and desire. And the 2 big men I'm talking about above didn't have any of those traits right now. For whatever reason Ivo thinks he's a shooting guard all of the sudden and just floats around the perimeter...leaving Reg by himself most of the time and he's not the quickest on his feet so he can't always react to where the miss is going to go.

Personally I think our best rebounders are Ricardo and Walt; unfortunately these guys are guards. But they're tough and both have a quick second jump to go up after loose balls. And I really think we've got to find a way to get Jon Smith more minutes...he plays way bigger than he is, is tough around the rim and challenges people defensively. Yeah he's limited a bit offensively but you can't make the argument right now that we absolutely need Ivo's and/or T.J.'s "scoring" right now because it's spotty at best.

Anyway, I'll stop ranting now...we HAVE plenty of size to compete (Belmont's forwards were both 6-7" by the way) however we don't seem to have the toughness/willingness right now to be physical around the rim.

Here's to hoping our guys have their heads on straight, put this one behind them, and come out ready for Akron. Go Bobcats!

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RE: Can't teach SIZE.

Posted: 2/24/2013 12:19:54 PM

First giving credit where credit is due, a tip of the cap to Belmont. Very, very impressive performance.

A size issue for us last night? The tale of the tape would not exactly support that.

A quick review of the Belmont starters show 6'7", 6'7", 6'6", 6'3" and 6'1". The reserves that Belmont sent in that logged double digit minutes were basically guards in the 6'2" range as well. Belmont did not put a Zeke Marshall type on the floor last nite.

IMO we got schooled at the guard position on both ends of the floor that greatly contributed to our completely being throttled. Their guards simply shot, passed, penetrated and defensed at a far superior level than ours.

Granted, Belmont did outperform us on the inside as well but it wasn't due to any superior size advantage that they possessed. Lots of easy lay-ups were created for them by their guards kicking our _sses.

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RE: Can't teach SIZE.

Posted: 2/24/2013 12:49:17 PM

Can't recruit size either. Small ball and an occasional big guy blossoming into something special is the way for non-power schools to make major noise.

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RE: Can't teach SIZE.

Posted: 2/25/2013 12:41:44 PM

BobcatSports wrote:

. . . . Lots of easy lay-ups were created for them by their guards kicking our _sses.

I thought that lots of their lay-ups were the result of Ohio concentrating on their perimeter shots and thereby opening up the inside game. We didn't adjust well when a guy cut inside and their perimeter guys were spot on with their passes to the interior when a guy sprung lose. I think we would have done better with a straight man defense, rather than whatever type of matchup zone we seemed to using most of the time.

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