East Carolina (9-9) at Wichita State (11-6) Game Discussion: Jan 18 (Sat)

[Blackmag]

You might think that with 4 seconds left you might try to slow the guy down who's dribbling the ball up the floor.

Exactly, much like the prevent defense in football… just stupid basketball

[Aargh]

Never could figure out why we let them inbound the ball and no pressure on the ball till half court. Four seconds is an eternity…

This^^^^^^

I did a rewind and replay because I never thought they should have gotten a fairly open 20' shot off in 4 seconds. The Shox just turned their backs and trotted down the court while Felton was unguarded and going full speed down the court. 4 seconds is enough to go baseline to baseline if you just let them. Pressure the guy with the ball and getting across half court can be a challenge, but they just let him do what he wanted and how he wanted to do it.

[Stickboy46]

Mills in the postgame interview with Kennedy blamed the loss on 50% FT shooting. While that is bad, he seems to miss the fact that letting a team shooting 26% from 3 on the season go off for 47.8% might be a little more significant than possibly scoring 2 or 3 more points from the FT line.

If we play D against the 3 as well as the rest of the teams have played against ECU, we win by double digits. But if we had just hit 2 more FT's we would have only lost by 1.

Mills needs to own it that whatever he's trying on defense is giving up a lot of 3's that other teams don't normally get - and it's consistent from game to game.

Mills has shown through his career that either defense isn't important to him or he has no idea how to coach it

[Woodrow]

It's 90% bad defense

Walker is a 23% 3 point shooter and went 3 for 3. Our opponents leave Beverly unguarded on the 3 pt line every game and he can't go 3 for 3. They made many guarded 3's tonight including the last one. They also made some open 3's which is bad defense.

[Aargh]

There are 200 player minutes in a basketball game. McGinnis, DeGray, and Bosnjak got 43 of them

McGinnis 0/2
DeGray 0/2
Bosnjak 0/4

That;s not much production from over 20% of the player minutes in the game.

I'll give DeGray a pass because he's coming off a long layoff and probably hasn't hit his game stride or anything near it yet, but McGinnis and Bosnjak aren't cutting it. Lots of wasted scholarships on the bench, but is there any hope that Mills could recruit a better player than Bamba if Bamba was released?

[Aargh]

Walker is a 23% 3 point shooter and went 3 for 3. Our opponents leave Beverly unguarded on the 3 pt line every game and he can't go 3 for 3. They made many guarded 3's tonight including the last one. They also made some open 3's which is bad defense.

There's enough bad defense to give our opponents confidence in their shooting. Maybe other teams that have played ECU have guarded Walker on the perimeter.

[Stickboy46]

Walker is a 23% 3 point shooter and went 3 for 3. Our opponents leave Beverly unguarded on the 3 pt line every game and he can't go 3 for 3. They made many guarded 3's tonight including the last one. They also made some open 3's which is bad defense.

It's 90% defense. It's not that every team we play gets magic MJ juice before the game. It's our awful defense... Period

[rjl]

Mills in the postgame interview with Kennedy blamed the loss on 50% FT shooting. While that is bad, he seems to miss the fact that letting a team shooting 26% from 3 on the season go off for 47.8% might be a little more significant than possibly scoring 2 or 3 more points from the FT line.

If we play D against the 3 as well as the rest of the teams have played against ECU, we win by double digits. But if we had just hit 2 more FT's we would have only lost by 1.

Mills needs to own it that whatever he's trying on defense is giving up a lot of 3's that other teams don't normally get - and it's consistent from game to game.

I'll tell you why he blames free throw shooting. Because that's not directly on him. It's not the bad offense or bad defensive scheme. No, t's the players' fault because they didn't make their free throws.

Get this doofus out of here. What a colossal mistake this okily dokily hayseed moron was.

[1972Shocker]

Mills has shown through his career that either defense isn't important to him or he has no idea how to coach it

Actually, both of those things can be true at the same time. However, I think it is mostly the latter.

[Woodrow]

It's 90% defense. It's not that every team we play gets magic MJ juice before the game. It's our awful defense... Period

I don't like our defense but I disagree with you. St Louis is a better 3 pt shooting team than ECU but we held them to 6 for 30 from 3. I don't think our defense was great that day. I don't think our defense was 90% of the reason ECU hit all those 3s.

[Dan]

Once again, we face a team that has 3 guys that have made more 3 pointers than our highest volume guy (Hill at 21 made 3s). Felton (36), Hays (21) and Farrell (23). The good thing is that these 3 guys take 90% of their threes, which means some random guy will likely go off.

Did this happen?

[Wichita Willy]

Just think, our next game is who and where? Can we stay within 50. I can't see hardly any wins the rest of the way.

[BostonWu]

ECU has 4 game win streak against us. This is approaching 90s bad.

[C0|dB|00ded]

Wow! That was an exciting game to watch! I'm glad I tuned in.

What a player in Washington! He gets his points within the offense and never stops working on D. 19 pts., 18 rbds., and 4 steals??!!! All-American performance! What would we be without him? Love Ballard too. He's just my kind of stinker!

What are you gonna say about that Walker kid. Beast mode! Ouch!

Unlucky break at the end. I wouldn't hang my head after this one. ECU played H A R D! Need to find out where they get their vitamins as well.

[Stickboy46]

I don't like our defense but I disagree with you. St Louis is a better 3 pt shooting team than ECU but we held them to 6 for 30 from 3. I don't think our defense was great that day. I don't think our defense was 90% of the reason ECU hit all those 3s.

I guess it was the magic MJ juice all our opponents drink before they play us then.