San Francisco (3/26/18)

[RBTX]

They're getting wide open corner 3's

Edited March 27, 2018 by RBTX

[ChristopherRyanWilkes]

1 minute ago, emmitt01 said:

They are carving our defense up with cutters and ball movement.  

We are doing nothing to prevent them from extending their defense out to the arc.

Some of this is that we can be very one dimensional on offense. We have one consistent pure shooter and no dominate physical bigs. Simmons has shown some promise but he's still very young and it shows. This is where having one guy being off like Duffy is so far can hurt you. He was hot in the tournament to this point but has never shown that consistency before. 

[Ben Gooding]

This has went from them just shooting lights out to us playing horrendous 3 point defense. 

[greenminer]

Assists
USF 13 UNT 2

[FirefightnRick]

Is that 12 of 16 now from 3?

 

Rick

[meanrob]

1 minute ago, greenminer said:

They are over 60% from 3

Almost 70%. As we know, tough to keep up with that.

[meangreenacct]

Looks like we are treating this trip like w vacation and forgot it was a business trip. Can't believe we can't figure out how to cover the corner three.

[CMJ]

USF 46 -------- NT 30

 

Halftime

 

Let's just try and learn some things for Game 2.

[meanrob]

With Duffy not scoring and their threes, I'm surprised we are only down by sixteen. 

[bstnsportsfan3]

Well that was a rough first half to put it mildly... 

[greenminer]

HALFTIME

Edited March 27, 2018 by greenminer

[Green Lantern]

Brutal first half. Sloppy play.

[Ben Gooding]

Silver lining - Woolridge hit 2 consecutive free throws.

Has that happened all year?

[EagleMBA]

1 minute ago, meangreenacct said:

Looks like we are treating this trip like w vacation and forgot it was a business trip. Can't believe we can't figure out how to cover the corner three.

Football had their pool party; looks like Basketball had its sight-seeing trip.

[BillySee58]

41 minutes ago, FirefightnRick said:

Diet Coke Boy is there, sitting behind the bench.

 

Rick

Can someone fill me in on the Diet Coke boy origin?

[greenminer]

Just now, BillySee58 said:

Can someone fill me in on the Diet Coke boy origin?

Paid position on Dickey's staff.

[emmitt01]

IF there is a silver lining, it is this.  They are hot on their court in front of their crowd.  

This is one game and we get the next one (and decisive one Friday, if necessary) at the pit.  We need our crowd to bring the energy.

[BillySee58]

All season we have been really bad at floaters and short twos in the line. We constantly hit the back of the rim on those type of shots. I hope our coaching staff teaches our players this offseason to use the glass. If you're long on floater attempts, sometimes it's easier to correct it by shooting it a little bit longer than shorter.

[BillySee58]

2 minutes ago, greenminer said:

Paid position on Dickey's staff.

Who is he?

[FirefightnRick]

2 minutes ago, BillySee58 said:

Who is he?

A great alumn who had to move out there recently.  

 

Rick

[diehardUNTfan]

How come unt usually gets exposed when they are on national tv😫

[FirefightnRick]

USF was 9th in their conference from the arc at 33%.  

They are having the game of their lives.

 

Rick

[CMJ]

USF is obviously a quality opponent and we're playing in their gym.  

That said, a very disappointing first half.  Maybe we got used to playing "win or go home" scenarios and don't like the safety net of having a series.

[TreeFiddy]

USF has really struggled closing games in the two games I have watched.  Hopefully history will repeat itself and we can get back in this one.  Held our own since about 7 or 8 minutes into the game.

[EagleMBA]

Only reason I can think of that we're not defending the three-point shots...are we worried more about their inside game? Are we counting on my Daddy's old saying about the dog that shits fast?