Hoops watcher said:AZGrizFan said:Well, how did we do on the 2nd time through?
Rebounding? Lost that one 34-28 - Nope
Turnovers? Lost that one 13-11 - Nope
Free Throws? 12-15, 80% - Check
Offensive Rebounds Allowed? 10 - Nope (led to 15 second chance points)
Points off Turnovers? 9 - check, certainly better than ZERO
Opponent Points off TO’s? 7 - better
Reality is this: Win the Rebounding battle under the opponent’s basket (or improve the numbers even a little bit) and we’re 2-0 despite all the other flaws. It directly cost us this game, and significantly contributed to the loss on Thursday.
Agree except you forgot about 5 lazy passes that led to unforced TOs. Add that to 5 offensive rebounds allowed because our guards particularly don't put a body on their guy and you give them 10 extra possessions, more than enough to get the result of both games. The good thing is both problems are very fixable.
Exactly. But I’d rather sit and bitch about the refs.