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GYERO

If you believe our defensive issues are fixable. I *think* they are, but I’m getting worried the longer they persist.

For me, our positioning is a problem. We’re just not athletic enough to recover space like other SEC teams.

Edit: perfect example was midway through the 2H. I think we had cut it to 2-3pts. We gave up a drive to Sears and Robinson over-helped. He just isn’t quick enough to recover and gave up a 3 to Youngblood.
Robinson and Williams were particularly bad with over-helping today. Garrison finally made some adjustments late on that front and we got a late stop or two late as a result.

Sears just feasts on over-helping.

Sucks we stunk just as much as in zone as in man today and it exacerbated our rebounding issues. Could have helped keep Sears out of the lane and taken them out of their normal offense. We forced them into
a few uncomfortable possessions but then would give up an offensive rebound.

Plenty of room to grow still and plenty of time to do it.
 
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- Others have hit on it, but Alabama, a likely 1 seed, shot 40% from 3 and nearly 90% from FTs on 30+ attempts on both. And won by 5. Nothing to be ashamed of.

You play in this many games like this, you’re eventually going to lose one of them. Now 5-1 on the season.

- Felt like every time we didn’t score it was a death sentence - and we still managed to keep ourselves in it.

- Gotta clean up defensive rebounding.

- ^that said, one reason we give up so many is our opponents are taking so many 3s against us. Those two loose balls in a row down the stretch just bounced right to them and they got two 3s out of it, which basically ended the game.

- Losing sucks. This team isn’t perfect. But IMO it’s important to remember that we came into the season hoping to have a good team that could win a tournament game or two, and now we’re hoping they can win it all.
 
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