It's true. Alabama was red hot, but BYU's perimeter defense was abysmal.

Mar 29, 2025
11:41:14am

a priori All-American

I think that some of that was by design (to limit shots at the rim) — but the turnovers, offensive rebounds, and terrible transition defense all contributed to wide open shots as well.

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Seeing CBS Sports call us out for allowing so many unguarded 3 pointers

krindorr All-American

Mar 29, 11:39am

It's true. Alabama was red hot, but BYU's perimeter defense was abysmal.

a priori

Mar 29, 11:41am

Yeah I think a lot of it was poor d on our part. Didn’t help they were red hot.

karatekid

Mar 29, 11:44am

Great to have BYU part of the conversation. More name recognition & at the table

Twin Cities Coug

Mar 29, 11:45am

Byu went under screens for a reason.

Idacoug

Mar 29, 11:50am

They did. It may have been the wrong reason(s)

cajuncoug

Mar 29, 2:35pm

All year it seemed

TNT

Mar 29, 7:10pm

It's not a bad take. BYU gameplan was pretty poor in that game. A mistake I

Schrodizzy

Mar 29, 11:50am

Our perimeter defense was terrible. We fought under every screen leaving them

LOLzzz

Mar 29, 11:51am

So many on the board eye rolled any mention of terrible defending of the 3, or bad coaching. It's so obvious

slappy

Mar 29, 11:53am

And Bama had not been taking or making them in last part of season. Needed faster adjustments

Soupie

Mar 29, 11:55am

BYU was ranked 292nd in opponent’s 3 pt %. They’ve been horrible defensively all

Finneas

Mar 29, 11:58am

I think that would be a mistake on Dukes part - playing tight D 6 to 8 feet

ABCoug

Mar 29, 12:06pm

Everyone seems to forget we didn't have the athletes to chase them off the 3

Fdnman

Mar 29, 12:11pm

I'll just never understand the thought that even with perfect coaching and playing the best D we could, there's no

slappy

Mar 29, 12:18pm

I mean, just switch everything and roll the dice with guarding their guards with

byubyu

Mar 29, 12:38pm

Also, it's okay to admit we made mistakes and our coaching strategy should have adjusted. It happens.

slappy

Mar 29, 12:41pm

That's what Alabama did (chase us off 3) and a big reason we feasted inside

krindorr

Mar 29, 1:36pm

I don’t agree. They stayed attached to shooters

whoneedscorners?

Mar 29, 2:11pm

That's probably more accurate; my point was they sacrificed interior defense for 3 point defense

krindorr

Mar 29, 2:20pm

I haven’t seen many argue the defensive strategy, just saying it explains why

FMOCIE

Mar 29, 7:53pm

Duke is going to be able to do things on defense that we can't do with our

russkiejedi

Mar 29, 12:19pm

I would love to see Duke test Alabama to see if they can keep that going, do

1CougFan

Mar 29, 12:38pm

A lot of posters have implied that BYU is to slow at defense. That all CBS was

Bullrider

Mar 29, 2:14pm

It sounds like they were saying we gave up uncontested 3’s

cajuncoug

Mar 29, 2:35pm

Most of those undefended threes were a result of BYU players...

Les IsMore

Mar 29, 7:02pm

They were red hot, high confidence in their shot selection and we dared them to

Rat

Mar 29, 5:11pm

We gave them open 3's to start, they got in a groove, so when we did try to close out on them, they still kept hitting,

BackPacker

Mar 29, 5:37pm

Yeah, THIS

jaba166

Mar 29, 7:27pm

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