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Re: Perimeter defense = sadness

Postby mrydel » Fri Mar 13, 2015 1:39 pm

Pretty good coaching to be able to adjust to that, huh.
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Re: Perimeter defense = sadness

Postby SMU1523 » Fri Mar 13, 2015 1:39 pm

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SMU1523 wrote:Last week, a single opposing player sunk ten 3's on us. We still won.

Today, a team sinks fifteen 3's on us. We still won.

Call me crazy, but I am not scared of three point shooting teams anymore.


If we play a team that is REMOTELY more competitive with us in the paint and they shoot 3s like that, we lose the game. How is that not worrying?


Yeah, the UCONN game was bad. Okay, I am crazy.
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Re: Perimeter defense = sadness

Postby Mustangs35SMU » Fri Mar 13, 2015 1:40 pm

StallionsModelT wrote:Every other Top 25 team in the country would've had this thing wrapped up by the half.


You know, minus every single other ranked team that has played so far today and all.

Michigan nearly knocked off Wisconsin.
Davidson had to come from 18 DOWN to beat La Salle.
Kentucky is still struggling with Florida late.
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Re: Perimeter defense = sadness

Postby StallionsModelT » Fri Mar 13, 2015 1:43 pm

Mustangs35SMU wrote:
StallionsModelT wrote:Every other Top 25 team in the country would've had this thing wrapped up by the half.


You know, minus every single other ranked team that has played so far today and all.

Michigan nearly knocked off Wisconsin.
Davidson had to come from 18 DOWN to beat La Salle.
Kentucky is still struggling with Florida late.


Michigan, La Salle, and Florida would all donkeypunch ECU.
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Re: Perimeter defense = sadness

Postby mrydel » Fri Mar 13, 2015 1:44 pm

1 FG by ECU in the last 7:23. Pretty good coaching on defense.
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Re: Perimeter defense = sadness

Postby LA_Mustang » Fri Mar 13, 2015 1:50 pm

StallionsModelT wrote:He absolutely got outcoached. ECU is one of the worst teams in D1A. If they had won today it would've been their best win this year BY A MILE. We have three guys that have a legit shot at playing at the next level. They have zero. Larry was outcoached. Period. Thankfully for him and us he's recruited well enough to overcome that.

Can you please be specific how he was out coached?

I realize teams shoot a lot of three against us, but there is a reason - our interior defense is incredibly strong. Most teams, especially less talented ones, would rather take their chances by jacking up threes against us. That is really their only chance to win. If a team passes the ball around enough someone will get a good look behind the arc, and sometimes they get hot. These are D1 athletes. BTW, I hope you're kidding when you say that ECU is one of the worst teams in D1....they aren't very good major conference wise but they would beat many of the schools in the mid-major conferences.
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Re: Perimeter defense = sadness

Postby StallionsModelT » Fri Mar 13, 2015 1:55 pm

mrydel wrote:1 FG by ECU in the last 7:23. Pretty good coaching on defense.


Gotcha. So our strategy is let inferior opponents shoot lights out for 33 minutes and then turn it on? Sounds good.
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Re: Perimeter defense = sadness

Postby Mustangs35SMU » Fri Mar 13, 2015 1:58 pm

StallionsModelT wrote:
mrydel wrote:1 FG by ECU in the last 7:23. Pretty good coaching on defense.


Gotcha. So our strategy is let inferior opponents shoot lights out for 33 minutes and then turn it on? Sounds good.


What exactly do you propose they do?

You act like we let them shoot 34 wide open threes. They could do absolutely nothing interior, we contested a lot of the threes they did attempt...and they still fell.

You're acting as if we still lost. Get over it. We won a conference tournament game for the first time in nearly a DECADE. Enjoy it a bit.
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Re: Perimeter defense = sadness

Postby StallionsModelT » Fri Mar 13, 2015 2:00 pm

Mustangs35SMU wrote:
StallionsModelT wrote:
mrydel wrote:1 FG by ECU in the last 7:23. Pretty good coaching on defense.


Gotcha. So our strategy is let inferior opponents shoot lights out for 33 minutes and then turn it on? Sounds good.


What exactly do you propose they do?

You act like we let them shoot 34 wide open threes. They could do absolutely nothing interior, we contested a lot of the threes they did attempt...and they still fell.

You're acting as if we still lost. Get over it. We won a conference tournament game for the first time in nearly a DECADE. Enjoy it a bit.


I'm happy we won. Always better to win than lose. That said, the bar for the program should be higher and we did not play up to what this team has set as its standard. There are no more games at Moody and the road only gets tougher from here. ECU is one of the worst D1A programs in the country. This should never have been close.
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Re: Perimeter defense = sadness

Postby Mustangs35SMU » Fri Mar 13, 2015 2:01 pm

StallionsModelT wrote: ECU is one of the worst D1A programs in the country.


No they're really not.
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Re: Perimeter defense = sadness

Postby skyscraper » Fri Mar 13, 2015 2:03 pm

ECU has an RPI of 232.
For reference, that's worse than Lamar, who is at 223.
ECU is pretty bad and we should have played them better.
Glad we won, but that was very stressful.
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Re: Perimeter defense = sadness

Postby StallionsModelT » Fri Mar 13, 2015 2:04 pm

Mustangs35SMU wrote:
StallionsModelT wrote: ECU is one of the worst D1A programs in the country.


No they're really not.


They won two games away from home all season and one in conference play at UCF. They are terrible.
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Re: Perimeter defense = sadness

Postby Mustangs35SMU » Fri Mar 13, 2015 2:06 pm

Being terrible and being one of the worst programs in the country are two completely different things.

They had a hot shooting day and it still wasn't enough. We won, move on to tomorrow against a solid Temple or Memphis team.
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Re: Perimeter defense = sadness

Postby ender3 » Fri Mar 13, 2015 2:07 pm

Wow. If there was only some way to show the 2010 Mustang fans the entitled, spoiled little prigs we have become.

We're regular season conference champions.
We've advanced in the conference tournament.
We're a lock for a top 8 seed in the NCAA tourney.
We're really considered a team that high seeds DO NOT want to see in their region.
We won today.


But the other team shot too many threes! Boo. Freaking. Hoo. They shot really, really well. And lost.

Go Mustangs. Let's win again tomorrow.
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Re: Perimeter defense = sadness

Postby mrydel » Fri Mar 13, 2015 2:08 pm

StallionsModelT wrote:
mrydel wrote:1 FG by ECU in the last 7:23. Pretty good coaching on defense.


Gotcha. So our strategy is let inferior opponents shoot lights out for 33 minutes and then turn it on? Sounds good.

Back in my days the strategy was to win. I guess you would rather we did otherwise. Apparently you took SMU and gave the points. Should not do that at tourney time.
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