not knocking anyone on here, it's just frustrating watching the team struggle again and like always fan interest is almost non-existent halway through regular season.despite what we witnessed a week ago and especially on tuesday i still have hopes for this game. we are clearly the worse team but i don't think we'll see a team play as bad as they have the last couple games. if we do we'll lose by double digits again. i think if we attack the basket and draw fouls rather than launch threes it will benefit us greatly. i say draw fouls because it doesn't do us any good to get in close range only to throw up some prayer that gets smashed back in our faces or tied up. if we're gonna go in the lane, we need to make sure we draw contact and get their bigs out of the game with foul trouble. we're just outmatched in that area and need to make them as little of a factor as possible.
i mentioned this on egriz but i like how we defended last week. we doubled down, and made cherry beat us from deep. unfortunately he made us pay by knocking down a couple early but i still think that was the right d. even after our game his shooting percentage from there is 27%. our odds are much better letting him shoot jumpers than they are letting selvig and qvale go one on one.
in the end, i think if we get off to a good start, take care of the ball, and be the aggressor we can win this game. my hope is the fan support is much better than it appears it is going to be because the guys sure could use a little support to get out to a fast start.
cats 62
griz 57
GO CATS!!!!!!!
