SFCityBear said:
TheSouseFamily said:
Here's another interesting stat that I hadn't picked up on until a Duke friend just mentioned it. We held Duke to 5 transition points which is pretty remarkable. Apparently, it's the lowest for Duke in a very long time. Clearly, that's by design and I've heard Fox lecture on this to other coaches at Coaches clinics. A big part of that obviously is not crashing the offensive boards which is why we're in the 250+ range already and will likely stay there. Regardless, holding a team that like to break to five points is pretty impressive.
Not much in the way of good news to take out from the Duke game, but at least transition defense was good. That hasn't been the case in recent years.
I'm sure you must be right, but visually, it sure looked like Duke was fast breaking often. One of their baskets came on a play that the TV feed showed over and over, with the Duke big running right up the middle of the floor, with no one stopping him, to get a pass at the other end and score easily. There were other plays where Duke got down the floor and just missed the shot. It looks like we get down the floor fast enough, but sometimes we are a little slow to figure out which man to guard.
Transition defense was decent. They really never got 2-1/3-1 run outs. We lack the size and strength, however, to stop their big from running down the court and bullying his way into the low block. I don't think that was cause we were SLOW....just that when you give up 30 pounds and 4 inches it is kinda hard to move him.
Now think of Zion had been playing ;-)
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