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Just watched them against nova. They pushed the ball on made and missed baskets.

TRANSITION DEFENSE is key

Missed parts of the game due to work but wanted to make a few comments:

1. MVP for me goes to Whit. He totally shut down Johnson-odom in 2nd half. whit has great length and does a good job of keeping his man in front of him. he locked down kuric against l'ville as well. keep playing defense like this and you will continue to see important minutes.

2. The veterans again laid an egg in the 1st half. clark chucking up 30 ft jumpers, hollis not bringing energy, sims fumbling around. the major difference btw this year's team and prior years is that JT3 can insert the freshmen to give us a lift. and they did give us a lift in the 2nd half. Trawick had his brain camp moments but brought his usual attitude. Hopkins gave us a boost when he was in there. Porter was doing his thing. whit gave us lock diown defense. they held the fort until the veterans decided to show up to the party. as bad a first half clark, sims, hollis played i have to give them credit for their 2nd half performance.

3. hollis showed again he has the capability of being Mr. big Shot. But he needs to step up his intensity on the defensive end. he has always had a bad habit of reaching. that's just laziness and not moving his feet well. have to step it up.....b/c with this team nobody is immune from being benched.

4. hope markel is alright. he looked pretty woosy and i was shocked to see him back so quick.

5. Free throws! especially clark. where did that come from?

6. The defense and rebounding in 1st half was ATROCIOUS. this team has to learn they have to bring it for 40 minutes. no reason to save energy. Go all balls out and tap yourself out fi you are getting tired b/c we have capable backups.