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We are shockingly bad on defense

We are what we are and will be the rest of the year. Very poor defensively. Going to have to put up probably 90 to win every night. And over come poor ft shooting. If we rebound better, like tonight, that will help.
 
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Our Defensive efficiency tonight was decent , keeping a team to 45% and 30% from 3 is ok. what you goobers are not understanding is that more possessions a game from our offensive system just creates more shots . if we slowed it down and played Calipari Ball, our opponents would get far fewer shots and only scored like 75 pts or so
Exactly, it’s not hard to grasp. We score close to 100 when we play well every game. That’s awesome. If we rebound better snd get a little tighter on defense overall we will be amazing,
 
🤡? Lmao.. I speak truth , go watch Star Wars lol..
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Our adjusted offensive efficiency against Florida was 165.1 and it was 141.1 tonight. We aren't going to lose many games if we can do that all the time lol

I'm a bit concerned that the 48% and 50% from 3 vs UF and Miss St isn't sustainable LOL.

Maybe it will be tho haha.
 
I'm a bit concerned that the 48% and 50% from 3 vs UF and Miss St isn't sustainable LOL.

Maybe it will be tho haha.

You never know!

Maybe we shoot worse in one game, but turn it over 5 less times and snag another O reb or two when compared to our numbers tonight.

Shooting is variable as well as all the other factors.
 
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Our first shot defense is not that bad. What’s killing us is not rebounding well enough. Giving up offensive rebounds, 2nd and 3rd attempts for the opponents. Butler played great defense on Hubbard. He lot is up last year. He was 5/16 from the field tonight. 3/11 from 3.
 
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Our first shot defense is not that bad. What’s killing us is not rebounding well enough. Giving up offensive rebounds, 2nd and 3rd attempts for the opponents. Butler played great defense on Hubbard. He lot is up last year. He was 5/16 from the field tonight. 3/11 from 3.
That’s what I see too. I don’t know what the numbers say. But to the eye our defense is not terrible.

We don’t defensive rebound well.

We give up far too many 2nd and 3rd shots.

Clean that up and our defense looks much better.


Our offense is elite. We don’t have to be a defensive stopper.

Just respectable on defense.
 
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Our first shot defense is not that bad. What’s killing us is not rebounding well enough. Giving up offensive rebounds, 2nd and 3rd attempts for the opponents. Butler played great defense on Hubbard. He lot is up last year. He was 5/16 from the field tonight. 3/11 from 3.

FWIW today was much better. Miss st only rebounded 25% of their misses. That’s great.

A far cry from the 41% UF pulled down vs us.

Actually the first shot defense isn’t great. They shot over 60% on twos. That’s a troubling trend that plagued us vs UF and OSU.
 
That’s what I see too. I don’t know what the numbers say. But to the eye our defense is not terrible.

We don’t defensive rebound well.

We give up far too many 2nd and 3rd shots.

Clean that up and our defense looks much better.


Our offense is elite. We don’t have to be a defensive stopper.

Just respectable on defense.

Problem is we aren’t quite respectable on defense yet.
 
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Add t that:
- Miscommunications on rotations,
= bigs giving up based line on one on one action
=Amari lack of rebounding technique
- fouling the 3 pt shooter

However, this team is build to outscore opponents…. So , as long as the 3 pts are falling and the ball is moving to the open man , we have a chance to win more games,
 
Defense isn't great throughout the game but we have the ability to get stops on individual possessions when we need to. We clamped them down the last 2 minutes (particularly Butler forcing Hubbard to take an off-balanced shot when it was still a 3 point game)
 
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