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Sterling on defenseModerators: PonyPride, SmooPower
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Sterling on defenseSterling is usually strong on defense but in re-watching footage of Woodard's threes, there were quite a few of them where Woodard was open because Sterling got caught on the wrong side of an off-ball screen. Significant learning opportunity, and we will need to fix that if we want to do well against strong shooting teams in the tourney.
Re: Sterling on defenseI agree - for a bit of Monday Morning quarterbacking (coaching?) I would have switched Manuel onto Woodard at some point in the second half. We defend ball screens pretty well overall but a big reason why Woodard had such a big game is because he was able to get open looks from screens away from the ball. Hopefully Sterling and the team improve on that going into the conference tournament.
Re: Sterling on defenseFunny how Tulsa got Woodard lots of open looks and Nic never had much help getting open. A lot of that is coaching. We still need to address defending 3s and also getting Nic more open looks.
Re: Sterling on defenseMultiple times Woodard got an open look from a simple drive fake and crossover as well. Wish we had been more willing to give up the drive in order to stay close for the 3. I think our help defense is usually good enough to handle guys driving into the paint.
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Nic had two plays run for him where he got wide open looks and missed and another where it was a long 2 that he made. Generally speaking you don't want to have to have a player jacking up 15 threes. If he simply shot 50% instead of his insane 66% we win the game by double digits, if he shoots 40% we threaten to beat them by 20.
Re: Sterling on defense3 open looks all game-see my point? And they were more contested than Woodard's. When a guy gets hot you have to stay with him and we didn't all game. Like I said we have not done very well defending 3s for most of the year. That is how a lot of teams stayed close to us. That wasn't the case last year.
Re: Sterling on defenseI would have put Ben Moore on Woodard the last 3 minutes and made him shoot over Ben. He wasn't going to drive, he was going to shoot 3's......Or Yanick...............
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