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This team has its flaws. But they are athletic, fun and never give up. They have really rounded into a strong team and easy and fun to root for. .
ag1ree no matter how the rest of the season goes this group plays hard and are entertaining.
Interested by the defensive tactics that UMASS used that caused us some issues. These days almost everyone plays some version of man to man..UMASS used a full court zone designed not so much to get turnovers but to get us in tough situations on offense. Looked like a 1-1-3 set up forcing the ball up the side and making us start our offense from the wing rather than from the top and use the center pick...it also ran off 8-10 seconds off the shot clock and sometimes down to 14 or 15 seconds b4 we got into our offense. They then dropped into a 1-2-2 zone which we attacked pretty successfully but in the 2nd half when we got to the double bonus with almost 10 minutes left they went to a funky 1-3-1 zone taking the center away from us and we went 3 minutes w/o scoring. Just interesting, veteran coach, and we still got them. Gutsy win....
Also we all love the Miles Rubin blocks but when he leaves his man to go block someone elses shot he takes himself out of position as a rebounder. Still more a plus than a minus but it will occasionally allow the other team the offensive rebound. My guess is he will get better at picking his spots...which kind of seems what the whole team is doing, getting better at doing what works and abandoning the things that dont. Which is the best thing about this season, we are performing better and still have room to get bettter.
Thanks Scott for getting those coach interviews in and the stats as well. good stuff