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@tjreese and they will see it. Paul Lusk has the D and Terry Johnson has the O. I understand that Matt gives a lot of freedom to his coaches and so I'm unsure the specifics of the D. Staying away from other things on D and just discussing Zach...yes he has played zone a lot or a sagging man actually. Would Zach going up a bit higher change things for Schfino...yes I think it would result in 3 things. 1) It would have shut down a lot of makes by Schifino. 2) it would have opened up more feeds to TJD 3) It sometimes would result in Schifino driving more to the rim with Zach trailing him which may or may not have resulted in positive.
Not defending the curls into the lane was a problem in the first game this year and at least one game where X went off. Personally, I think Matt stays on the analytics too long in a game, but that is me. I do NOT believe that each game is but a sample of the previous data points that were generated with totally different variables in play. I believe that is a great starting place to align with personal viewing of "tape" and knowing your own players, but I just think sometimes the tweaks should be a bit more pronounced. Still, there are NO solutions, only trade-offs.
I thought there would be a LOT of overplay on Schifino to drive him baseline as much as possible and on those occasions where he went baseline and then continued his dribble to go off the screens on top to slide underneath and see what he does from the 3.
The other area of concern was doublng the post "all the time". Because that always happened, IU spread the court and welcomed losing a perimeter player on Defense for their spot shooting. I just think I would have left Caleb on TJD alone a few times and see how that went. So there were things I would have liked to see happen, but none of that means it would have been better...just that we don't know. Not a lot of experimentation in a game possible, but the curling into the lane and scoring has been one area that I believe could have been defended better.
That said, Matt was playing the "longer" shot would have more misses and IU shot VERY well for the game. So the doubling and curls into the lane were huge issues IMO