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Playing Athletic and Physical teams
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Playing Athletic and Physical teams
One of the biggest keys to having even a chance at winning when you are playing a very long, athletic team like TCU or even Colorado, is you have to make the contested layups and shots close to and around the rim. I don’t know how many layups BSU missed but it was a lot! I mean double digits. The fact that the most efficient offensive team in the conference scored 53 says a lot.
The second thing is taking care of the ball at ALL times. When Boise was up 4 and with a little momentum coming down the stretch, Roddy A. Grabbed a lose ball and got careless and had the ball poked away and the CO got a layup. This was very crucial point in the game and kind of got the momentum back a little for CO. It reminded me of when Sakho got the ball poked away against SDSU after they missed a couple free throws and then they hit a wide open 3.
Lastly, you gotta rebound and really limit the offensive rebounds. Boise actually rebounded really well and had a lot of offensive rebounds but they couldn’t convert much on the second chances (did I mention how many layups they missed?)
If you don’t do well with ALL of these keys against a team like TCU or CO you won’t win.
Simple as that.
A lot of other things have to happen too but these will likely determine the winner.
The second thing is taking care of the ball at ALL times. When Boise was up 4 and with a little momentum coming down the stretch, Roddy A. Grabbed a lose ball and got careless and had the ball poked away and the CO got a layup. This was very crucial point in the game and kind of got the momentum back a little for CO. It reminded me of when Sakho got the ball poked away against SDSU after they missed a couple free throws and then they hit a wide open 3.
Lastly, you gotta rebound and really limit the offensive rebounds. Boise actually rebounded really well and had a lot of offensive rebounds but they couldn’t convert much on the second chances (did I mention how many layups they missed?)
If you don’t do well with ALL of these keys against a team like TCU or CO you won’t win.
Simple as that.
A lot of other things have to happen too but these will likely determine the winner.