Took one on the chin today but I can easily see us beating OSU in a future matchup.
Their guards are outstanding. Our defensive strategy seemed to be to help on their guards and make others beat us. The problem is that we neither limited their guards and in the process let others beat us too. Defensively I'm not sure we can do much worse than this. OSU is going to score but we have to take something away. Today we took nothing away. I don't think we can take Alston and Mitchell away so the better strategy is to do the best we can on them straight up and not let them get their teammates open shots that they are capable of knocking down.
There were a ton of things that ended up going against us in this game. OSU shooting. Turnovers. Bad calls. Not all of those things we can control but some we can. Fortunately we put ourselves in a position where we were playing with house money in this one. We just have to learn from this experience and the next time we play a top five team we have to be good defensively and not throw the ball away so much and hopefully give ourselves a chance. I think we have the talent to do that. Hopefully we see this team again in Indy and we can see what we learned from today.
Book closed on this one. Got to win the next game vs Nebraska and get back on track.
Their guards are outstanding. Our defensive strategy seemed to be to help on their guards and make others beat us. The problem is that we neither limited their guards and in the process let others beat us too. Defensively I'm not sure we can do much worse than this. OSU is going to score but we have to take something away. Today we took nothing away. I don't think we can take Alston and Mitchell away so the better strategy is to do the best we can on them straight up and not let them get their teammates open shots that they are capable of knocking down.
There were a ton of things that ended up going against us in this game. OSU shooting. Turnovers. Bad calls. Not all of those things we can control but some we can. Fortunately we put ourselves in a position where we were playing with house money in this one. We just have to learn from this experience and the next time we play a top five team we have to be good defensively and not throw the ball away so much and hopefully give ourselves a chance. I think we have the talent to do that. Hopefully we see this team again in Indy and we can see what we learned from today.
Book closed on this one. Got to win the next game vs Nebraska and get back on track.