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Goodwin missed three fts in a row early in the Dayton game, and went 4/9 overall.

Yuri made his final two, tieing and then giving us the lead with 6 ticks left. Yuri was 3/5 overall.

While French and Goodwin are great leaders, it would be an incredible improvement if they decided to change and lead us in fts as well. We would be dancing.

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This is fun

 

  From all players who I could find FT stats from last year, Half improved, while obviously, the other half have gotten worse. 

 

                2018/19 - 19/20

French       34.9 -      34.3

Goodwin    51.1 -     52.8

Jacobs      37.5 -      70.6

Hankton    75 -          57.1

Perkins    81.4 -         76.6

Weaver     62.5 -        66.7

Collins       78.9 -       56

Hargrove   67.8  -       80

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This was a bizarro game (from the old Superman comics or the Seinfeld episode). ...where everything was turned around and opposite. What we do well , we did poorly and what we do poorly we did well.

Let's look at the WWN2D2W. & Bottom line

.we are one of the best rebounding teams...they are one of the worst...dominate the boards by double figures.....if the rebs are close then that is a bad sign...Not only weren't the rebs close but we lost the battle of the boards...39-36...major fail

 We need to draw fouls to get our FTA up and neutralize their FT advantage....we miss a lot but we don't miss them all....We need to beat them on FTM. ....This turned out to be a difference maker....They did exactly what they needed to do...not foul us (low FTA)...and draw fouls against us....we shot what we always do...around 58% (7-12) ...but they out shot us by 20 FTA....26-32...and made 19 extra FTs....we almost always out shoot our opponents(FTA) and and many times equal or surpass them in FTs (FTM)...not tonight....The irony is their 2 big FT shooters( 88 & 87%) shot 58% (hey, that's Bills ball )...but that was all for naught as we were destroyed by Gud...94% (15-16)...he had 20 pts...3/4 came from FTs....another major fail. 

Hold them to 60 pts.  The closer to 60,  the better are chances of winning....Stay away from fouling them...60 would have been nice...if we could have dominated the boards as planned and stopped fouling them.....this may have happened.

3 pt shooting...this was actually another opposite but a good one...We actually out shot the Cats 39% to 33% ....3 pt shooting has been terrible lately and Dav is the good long shooting team..Unfortunately this was cancelled out by.......

2pt shooting....some of the worst of the year...again another bizarro as we shoot better from 3 than from 2...39% vs 31%...remember less than 44% from 2 is considered an F- (average is 49-50%)..we shot 31%...many missed short shots.......if we had a normal Billiken 2 pt shooting night we would have had another six 2pters =12 more pts...a game winner....yet another major fail.

.Match them in TOs...stay around 11....This actually worked out...Dav had their usually good TO game...10...We had an outstanding  TO rate of 9...excellent but the TO diff was not enough to make up enough ground.

Bottom line...They didn't beat us...we let them win...Our inability  and their ability to draw fouls ...plus our  failure on the close shots and the fact that we were out rebounded all  spelled doom tonight. While Dav is a 500 team that is a bit misleading as they have the 2nd toughest SOS in the A-10.....I leave you with 1 last quote from the original post.......Dav may be down but they are not out...they have just enough life left to rise up and swat us down

 

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