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Posted on: September 13, 2016 at 08:31:44 CT
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you have to learn basic individual skills before you can put a reasonably good team defense together.

Freshman historically have trouble adjusting to the speed of the college game in this area. Lot's of reaching and hacking and very little court awareness of where the ball and their man is.

couple that with the fact that as a team we were terrible on defense last year and you have a problem that certainly will be difficult to solve.

The fact we don't have a strong upper class for these younger kids to model after is a killer.

Takes leadership to make people (especially offensively minded high school kids) want to play hard nosed defense.

Based on the last two seasons it appears our coaching staff doesn't value that end of the floor at all. They also may just be incompetent in this area like many others.
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Path to a 20-win season and beyond - mizzoudiehard MU - 9/12 18:56:15
     All true. If we see a new player in Woods, we could be good - MUIntensity USA - 9/13 10:09:49
     If that is the ceiling then - Rabbit Test MU - 9/13 08:51:14
          Ok Andy. We understand your basketball knowledge - Mr. Orange SU - 9/13 09:09:30
          All levels of play - FIJItiger MU - 9/13 09:00:10
     Hopefully we see some of that emerge - FIJItiger MU - 9/13 08:30:23
          what is your definition of size? - wu-tangtiger MU - 9/13 08:52:50
               Not them - FIJItiger MU - 9/13 08:56:24
                    Woods will get big minutes - wu-tangtiger MU - 9/13 09:07:55
                         Like I said, I'm not counting them - FIJItiger MU - 9/13 09:11:54
                              Seems weird to say there's a lack of size - wu-tangtiger MU - 9/13 09:20:48
                                   RE: Not a Fiji sky is falling guy - TigerUppercut MU - 9/13 12:07:14
                                        They don't have to play big roles - wu-tangtiger MU - 9/13 12:16:38
                                             Our Post D is a huge issue - TigerUppercut MU - 9/13 12:24:04
                                                  I watched WSU play Vandy - wu-tangtiger MU - 9/13 12:36:30
                                                       RE: I watched WSU play Vandy - TigerUppercut MU - 9/13 13:21:22
                                                       so you watched his teams at UCM - Jeff85 MU - 9/13 12:59:44
                                                            only watched 2 KA coached UCM games - wu-tangtiger MU - 9/13 13:16:55
                                   I guarantee that if any national pundit considers MU to - FIJItiger MU - 9/13 09:24:45
                                        I doubt size is the biggest - wu-tangtiger MU - 9/13 09:34:43
                                             Coaching is the biggest deficiency, then experience/maturity - FIJItiger MU - 9/13 09:39:23
                                                  the lack of a go to player - wu-tangtiger MU - 9/13 09:43:01
                                                       No, disagree - FIJItiger MU - 9/13 09:47:13
                                                            1 great guard that can fill it up - wu-tangtiger MU - 9/13 10:15:04
                                                                 I've been saying that since KA arrived - Jeff85 MU - 9/13 13:04:28
                                                                 The Tigers have been beaten a few times the last couple of - sprintcar STL - 9/13 10:41:44
                                                                      And every new coach was blessed with a good guard - nerdmachine KC - 9/13 12:31:22
                                                                           Other than Obasahan, none of those guys were very - wu-tangtiger MU - 9/13 12:37:55
                                                                      RE: The Tigers have been beaten a few times the last couple of - TigerUppercut MU - 9/13 12:09:31
                                                                           All true. But better ball movement will produce more open - sprintcar STL - 9/13 13:27:29
     It would take more than a modest improvement to have a - StaleyTiger MU - 9/12 19:33:41
          Thanks Andy. You are really thinking outside the box - Mr. Orange SU - 9/13 09:23:13
          Nope - haeffb MU - 9/12 19:49:47
               In 12 of our 15 SEC losses we were down by double digits - tgr MU - 9/12 20:15:03
                    The team will be modestly better just with better attitudes. - sprintcar STL - 9/13 07:41:27
                    That's insane. Looking at the non-con, we never had the - StaleyTiger MU - 9/12 20:28:26
                         We are younger - catbirdseat MU - 9/12 21:49:41
                              We don't know yet if they can play team defense - wu-tangtiger MU - 9/12 22:24:10
                              ^^^^^!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😛😛😛(nm) - Evenflow MU - 9/12 22:17:59
                         So many new players and a new offensive philosophy - wu-tangtiger MU - 9/12 20:40:15
               That's still a lot of big losses - wu-tangtiger MU - 9/12 19:52:28
                    I don't understand - haeffb MU - 9/12 19:54:53
                         5 players can improve on what they were last year - wu-tangtiger MU - 9/12 20:38:16
                              Individual improvement vs team improvement. (nm) - haeffb MU - 9/12 21:25:40
                                   On defense - Rabbit Test MU - 9/13 08:31:44
                                        Thanks Andy for that Haif recap! - Mr. Orange SU - 9/13 08:52:40
                                        4 of the newcomercomers come from pretty good - wu-tangtiger MU - 9/13 08:49:41
                                             Kim better hope so. - Rabbit Test MU - 9/13 10:27:35
                                                  You're thinking of Haif Andy - Mr. Orange SU - 9/13 10:35:39
     Yeah, maybe Kim will pull a Tubby Smith. - Evenflow MU - 9/12 19:33:16




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