Not completely. Most days they probably wouldn’t hit that percentage of threes

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Mar 28, 2025
10:45:31am

thirdgencoug All-American

in a game of horse with nobody guarding them.

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thirdgencoug

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KY coaches from the analytics. It was clear from the under screen defense

Squirt

Mar 28, 6:15am

Hindsight bias is painful. I really wish we had known what we know now.

Jimmertime

Mar 28, 6:18am

TBH I don't know if we would play them much differently. They are the best "to

Fdnman

Mar 28, 6:31am

Yeah it's the strategy I would have gone with as well.

JuicyJam

Mar 28, 7:20am

I knew we were in trouble when they banked in a three.

thirdgencoug

Mar 28, 10:40am

Yeah would have been nice to know ahead of time Bama would break the NCAA record

Your Royal Blueness

Mar 28, 8:26am

The biggest problem seemed to be not getting the defensive rebound after missed

downtownchrisbrown

Mar 28, 6:21am

Huge problem. This allowed the score to balloon

Recipefordisaster

Mar 28, 6:46am

Long shots, long rebounds

dtownCoug

Mar 28, 6:50am

This. They has what 20 more shot attempts?

bald man

Mar 28, 8:02am

? No. We had more shot attempts and more offensive rebounds.

JuicyJam

Mar 28, 8:09am

they shout 51 3s to our 20. Seems to me that is more for them.

bald man

Mar 28, 12:05pm

BYU actually won the Off Reb battle

ninja math

Mar 28, 11:29am

I can see that. In the NBA there are a lot more games, and the playoffs are

Schultz is back

Mar 28, 6:22am

yeah, but Bama was also giving up the 2 to stop the 3, which worked great

Scooter

Mar 28, 6:48am

I’m a huge analytics guy

JoeExotic

Mar 28, 6:50am

The problem with averages is that they are against an “average” opponent. Bama was no average nor was our strategy

WP17

Mar 28, 6:52am

This is exactly right. He’s talked about being too rigid with sticking to the

macdizzle

Mar 28, 6:53am

And sometimes, the other team just goes "ham."

Boomcannon

Mar 28, 7:03am

RE: And sometimes, the other team just goes "ham."

Jimmertime

Mar 28, 7:06am

KY admitted they (he) stuck with that part of the game plan too long in the

BoiseBlueCoug

Mar 28, 7:10am

But their outlier performance was because they were playing an outlier defensive strategy

WP17

Mar 28, 7:12am

Not completely. Most days they probably wouldn’t hit that percentage of threes

thirdgencoug

Mar 28, 10:45am

What? lol that’s absurd. Go watch these guys warm up.

WP17

Mar 28, 11:10am

I stand corrected. How many of them do you think would hit 20 freethrows

thirdgencoug

Mar 28, 3:28pm

I think most would hit 95%

WP17

Mar 28, 10:07pm

Our lack of backcourt length makes it tougher to go over screens

Homo Erectus

Mar 28, 7:19am

This has been my issue with our defensive approach, and I argued as much earlier

cajuncoug

Mar 28, 7:40am

The problem is that you won’t know it didn’t work until the game is over. Even

RBLegend

Mar 28, 9:17am

I think this is how the NBA does it, especially with a 7 game series.

Thrill

Mar 28, 10:23am

How many tournament teams lose a game scoring 88 pts?

JupiterJones

Mar 28, 10:44am

No kidding! Like watching the 1981-1982 Denver Nuggets.

thirdgencoug

Mar 28, 11:09am

They did adjust to push them a little further off the line and Bama still kept

sparky

Mar 28, 11:09am

Bama coach said we didn't have the athletes to guard them any other way

aaronmania

Mar 28, 11:13am

It was not the right defensive scheme for hot shooting from the top of the

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