Pablo
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http://www.billikens.com/forum/index.php?/topic/27426-gm-over-the-bills-by-16/:
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"Well the good news is our trend line seems to ne pointed up. TOs are down ...we have improved by about 4 pts/gm. The bad news is as you can see by the spread ...4pts isn't enough. If we have another "good" game then we will lose by 12. We need to step it up a little more. To me this means 40 min of b-ball.Yesterday, was another good example. We played 36 min of good b-ball ( for more detail ..see post game analysis of Duq thread) Part of that issue is depth . When you have a number of good players it is easier to play 40 good min. Unfortunately, we don't have that luxury...which means either those who are playing well need to give another 10% or someone who is not doing much recently needs to step up.
The Bills (F+ ) will have a tougher opponent in GM ( B- ) than Duq ( C- ). GM like always, brings good guard play...led by their leading scorer Moore who also leads in assists and rebounds....coupled with Livingston their 2nd leading scorer and team leader in steals One thing different this year is that GM can't shoot 3's. They really only have 1 player who comes off the bench that can hit from the arc (Kier) But GM makes up for it with strong rebounding on both sides of the court especially on offense ( A ). GM strong suit is good defense especially on the 3 pt shot (A- ) We will have a tougher time putting up good numbers from beyond the arc after facing teams that don't defend the 3 very well. GM will have 13 TOs... if they wind up in single digits or a differential of 5 or more it will be ugly. Again I would like to see some games where we have less TOs than our opponent. As I pointed out in an earlier thread we have had only 1 game where we had less TOs than our opponent.
Bottom line...40 min of b-ball...TO differential needs to be even or better...and we need to keep shooting like we have recently."
Posted 1 hour ago · Report post
"Well the good news is our trend line seems to ne pointed up. TOs are down ...we have improved by about 4 pts/gm. The bad news is as you can see by the spread ...4pts isn't enough. If we have another "good" game then we will lose by 12. We need to step it up a little more. To me this means 40 min of b-ball.Yesterday, was another good example. We played 36 min of good b-ball ( for more detail ..see post game analysis of Duq thread) Part of that issue is depth . When you have a number of good players it is easier to play 40 good min. Unfortunately, we don't have that luxury...which means either those who are playing well need to give another 10% or someone who is not doing much recently needs to step up.
The Bills (F+ ) will have a tougher opponent in GM ( B- ) than Duq ( C- ). GM like always, brings good guard play...led by their leading scorer Moore who also leads in assists and rebounds....coupled with Livingston their 2nd leading scorer and team leader in steals One thing different this year is that GM can't shoot 3's. They really only have 1 player who comes off the bench that can hit from the arc (Kier) But GM makes up for it with strong rebounding on both sides of the court especially on offense ( A ). GM strong suit is good defense especially on the 3 pt shot (A- ) We will have a tougher time putting up good numbers from beyond the arc after facing teams that don't defend the 3 very well. GM will have 13 TOs... if they wind up in single digits or a differential of 5 or more it will be ugly. Again I would like to see some games where we have less TOs than our opponent. As I pointed out in an earlier thread we have had only 1 game where we had less TOs than our opponent.
Bottom line...40 min of b-ball...TO differential needs to be even or better...and we need to keep shooting like we have recently."
