Folks, this team has a lot of warts, but to play off the officiating from last night is just plain wrong. Look at the box score. We had NINE more field goals than them. Turnovers and rebounding were nearly straight up even though our posts couldn't stay in the game. The only place they had the advantage was in their 31 (yes, 31) additional free throws. Yante, Kessler, and Edwards (who showed up last night with 7 and 4 in 14 minutes) fouled out without any of them playing over 20 minutes! That affects everything, including our perimeter defense.
Takeaways:
Takeaways:
- Yes, we could have won with better free throw shooting.
- My only gripe with coaching last night was that Fox didn't coach us up to draw charges and even flop on Simmons. What else can you do when he's that big, initiates contact that much, and they call fouls for breathing on the dude. You would've thought he was MJ with the calls he was getting.
- I don't believe Fox mismanaged timeouts last night. He had to use them to work the officials and keep our kids calm. Just IMO.
- The second half proved y'alls point about going up tempo on offense. Open threes for Kenny and JJ in transition as well as driving lanes for Charles Mann who played his best game of the season last night.
- I refuse to give up on this team until we're officially dead!
