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    ZERO Adjustments from Enfield in the First Half

    Still has the guys guarding Wright playing under screens; still has his guys getting bullied by Battey; still taking lots of mid range jumpers on offense.

    You’d never know Enfield has already prepared for and played this team twice.
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  • #2
    Originally posted by Chase (Gone from NYC) View Post
    Still has the guys guarding Wright playing under screens; still has his guys getting bullied by Battey; still taking lots of mid range jumpers on offense.

    You’d never know Enfield has already prepared for and played this team twice.
    Sometimes you tip your cap Chase. Wright was a 28% 3 point shooter coming into the game. You pick your poison with him as a creator vs him as a scorer.

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    • #3
      Wright has struggled from 3 in conference play because teams have guarded him tight on the perimeter. In 100+ minutes of playing Wright, SC never hedged hard on ball screens. Never. If switching and playing under every ball screen was workings, I’d say fine. But it’s been a miserable failure for 100+ minutes.

      In this game, Colorado’s eFG% was more than double from beyond the arc, compared to inside the arc. It was that way all game. Still no adjustment until...

      Andy finally found something with that zone defense, with Peterson on the defensive right top of the 2-3. That was almost like Krytonite for the Buffs. But then....

      Just when SC had worked its way back, back comes Ethan to kill the momentum, turn the ball over, and cause mismatches in the defensive end.

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      • #4
        Yet, we were in a good position to win this game down the stretch... Coming back down from 9.

        I'd say a bigger problem was the rebounding: 29 - 37 them... Idk if you want to call it scheme or effort but that and free throws (especially the technicals) was where the game was lost, they even gave up 1 additional turnover than us.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Chase (Gone from NYC) View Post
          Wright has struggled from 3 in conference play because teams have guarded him tight on the perimeter. In 100+ minutes of playing Wright, SC never hedged hard on ball screens. Never. If switching and playing under every ball screen was workings, I’d say fine. But it’s been a miserable failure for 100+ minutes.

          In this game, Colorado’s eFG% was more than double from beyond the arc, compared to inside the arc. It was that way all game. Still no adjustment until...

          Andy finally found something with that zone defense, with Peterson on the defensive right top of the 2-3. That was almost like Krytonite for the Buffs. But then....

          Just when SC had worked its way back, back comes Ethan to kill the momentum, turn the ball over, and cause mismatches in the defensive end.
          Clearly the scout was take away Horne cause he murdered us and make Wright score instead of distribute. Then you got Wright Schwartz and Barthelomy hitting everything and it messes it all up. Second half they adjust to slant their D towards Wright and Horne starts going off. Colorado had a higher eFG% from beyond the arc because no one shoots well from 2 against this team. Many of their makes were contested as well.

          Anderson sucks. Gotta recruit over him no doubt

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Trojan2021 View Post
            Yet, we were in a good position to win this game down the stretch... Coming back down from 9.

            I'd say a bigger problem was the rebounding: 29 - 37 them... Idk if you want to call it scheme or effort but that and free throws (especially the technicals) was where the game was lost, they even gave up 1 additional turnover than us.
            Don’t get me wrong, rebounding was a huge issue too. Obviously, switching to put a big on Wright all game long is going to have a detrimental effect on defensive rebounding.

            I do think there has been an effort issue in some instances when it comes to 50/50 balls. Other times, it’s just poor fundamentals.

            As for offensive rebounding, Evan, Peterson and White spent most of the game on the offensive end out on the perimeter, and were never really in a position to hit the offensive boards.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by trojan2016 View Post

              Clearly the scout was take away Horne cause he murdered us and make Wright score instead of distribute. Then you got Wright Schwartz and Barthelomy hitting everything and it messes it all up. Second half they adjust to slant their D towards Wright and Horne starts going off. Colorado had a higher eFG% from beyond the arc because no one shoots well from 2 against this team. Many of their makes were contested as well.

              Anderson sucks. Gotta recruit over him no doubt
              Virtually every 3 Colorado made the entire game came from ball defenders going under the screen, without any corresponding hedge.

              Interestingly, the zone worked nearly perfectly. I don’t think Colorado made any 3s while SC was in that zone.

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              • #8
                It's getting to be trend against quality competition - no energy, low effort and a vanilla game plan to start the contest. The last 2 times 'SC played the Buffs they fell behind 19-8 and 22-7 respectively and the Bruins jumped on the Trojans 20-7 last Saturday. You just can't spot good teams double digit leads 10 minutes into the game and expect to have any success. Tahj bailed the team out on Saturday but there was no second miracle tonight.

                SC is 4-4 in it's last 8 and even though they just got back to back 26 point, 9 rebound, 5 block games (!!) from the soon to be number 2 pick in the NBA draft the Trojans still needed double OT to get a win against a .500 Utah team and lost for the 7th straight time to CU.

                Really hoping for a favorable draw next weekend. Would be an absolute shame if we can't get to our first sweet 16 since Floyd in our one year with Evan.

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                • #9
                  Not only 4-4 in last 8, but two of the wins in double OT (as Hoss mentioned) and with a miracle 3 on an unplanned baseline out of bounds.

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