Mudville21 wrote:
Ok, I have been hard on Drew, but today I felt like he did a good job. The team was ready to play and despite letting a 18 point slip away, the boys never gave the lead up and pulled away late. We have now have stack a few wins together and we showed signs of putting it together a little. This team have fooled us the last 1 plus years, so then need to show if we have discovered our identity and can build on it or not. A few thoughts:
1. We only had 9 turnovers! Good things happen when you do not turn it over and get those extra looks at the bucket. On the flip side, St. Louis had 16, 11 in the first half. This is a good teaching moment. The team needs to be made aware of this. BTW, we had some sloppy turnovers when we lost the lead. We all know TOS has been our Achilles heel.
2. Drew called a timeout when the lead started to slip in first half, He called it when we were still up 10 or 11. Good timeout.
3. We shot 50.9 (28-55) from the floor and 43,5 from 3 (10-23). As far as 3’s go, Dez was on fire and we were looking form in transition. He was 5-7. It wasn’t all sunshine and light as we missed 9 Fts (14-23). We were fortunate that St. Louis shot 42.1 from the line as they too missed 11 Fts (8-19).
4. St. Louis will be tougher when we play them next time. They had not played in almost 2 weeks before tonight and the rust showed early.
Finally, encouraging game.
Agree w all of this. Good game plan (we have SLU's former assistant), good execution, great toughness.
At one point, something like 12 of SLU's 14 turnovers were steals.
Allowed way too many offensive rebounds. Early on our guards were snapping them up. Norris had five early but it got away from us.
Drew: OFFENSIVE REBOUNDS! DO YOU GUYS WANT TO WIN!?