Arizona Vs Michigan St 🏀 game discussion thread 11/23/23 at 2pm FOX

[WILD]

https://twitter.com/Zona_Briggs/status/1727746975704223977

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https://twitter.com/Zona_Briggs/status/1727746975704223977

Are we just done wearing the 97s now? Saving em for Purdue? Saving em for conference play? Saving em for March Madness?

[KansasCityCats]

I'd be ecstatic if they were saving the 97's for the postseason...

[Shantez]

Sup Cats gave a great day and sko catz! Oh whats the link also

[WILD]

https://twitter.com/BrucePascoe/status/1727779084510327204

[WILD]

It's Time!!!

[Shantez]

     sko catz

[arxpert]

Interested in seeing how Malik Hall does against us.

Izzo has Hall, Sissoko, Booker, and Cooper at his disposal for "size".

Ready to test out some of my theories. Hopefully our Guard play is better than theirs for "one night", but I think they have some tools that will test us.

It's like I know what I'm talking about.

Izzo had a good game plan against our size and Tommy had a good game plan to limit Malik Hall's effectiveness which showed right off the bat against us as it is a major point of weakness for us to have to defend a skilled inside out College PF. However, Tommy was outclassed and outcoached by Izzo almost the whole game. Almost. Again, another instance where learning a hard lesson is always better when you Win the game. Tommy has to be willing to adapt if this team is ever going to reach it's potential.

We had a few instances of big leads again like Duke, but couldn't blow the game open close to 15-20pts when we had the chances.

Our Guards got suckered into chucking 40 shots. Their guards had to chuck 44 shots against us and almost pulled it off because of Tommy's poor recognition of Izzo's "Hack-A-Ballo" strategy leading to their 11-1 run down the stretch.

Once in the Bonus, it was cringe to see Ballo out there being fouled on purpose every possession and Tommy actually thinking the Moonball lob would turn into a potential And-1 when Ballo was 10-15ft away from the basket each time. Maybe Krivas isn't better in that scenario because he is slow, but Ballo was a 42.7% FT shooter at the point the infographic came up. I'm almost positive that Tommy would have just went with Keshad at the 5 had he not had a horrible 4th foul like 27ft away from the rim, but this is what I said before, foul trouble on Keshad is a big issue for this roster. This team is susceptible to boneheaded fouls. Maybe we need Vessaar back (any word?).

Izzo's blueprint is out on us. Slow the game down, allow us the Bonus for free, make Ballo worse than useless - a liability - and take all the rhythm and flow out of the game on our end while playing "their brand" of offensive basketball. I believe that is a serious flaw.

It is abundantly clear that KJ Lewis needs to be getting more minutes. Love is a good defender, maybe even a Plus defender. Pelle is only a Good defender, but went to the Kerr Krissa school of flopping and needs to cut that out immediately. It is difficult to navigate those minutes and a good embarrassment of riches, but I'm not about to sit by and accept Lewis getting the Adama Bal treatment. He belongs on that floor.

Love is baited into chucking shots all too easily. To only have 2 FT attempts on an intentional foul at the end of the game, but 20 Field Goal attempts is bad basketball overall.

There is always room for improvement.

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I just hope you're invited to the film session so these problems can be corrected promptly. Now that Miller's recruits are gone, we're destined to become a bottom feeder by next year in the Big 12. Oh well. It was fun while it lasted.

[arxpert]

I just hope you're invited to the film session so these problems can be corrected promptly. Now that Miller's recruits are gone, we're destined to become a bottom feeder by next year in the Big 12. Oh well. It was fun while it lasted.

You never know. Do you..