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02-09-19 09:45 PM - Post#275736
In response to westcoast
Frustrating game. The Tigers shot a little bit better from outside than they had, but still not too well and passed up at least four good open looks from the arc. Stephens couldn't finish and couldn't get a call when he was hit. Aririguzoh had trouble coping with the double teams. Morales alternated great plays with bad ones. Llewelyn interred a fair number of possessions with hopeless drives into a sea of shot-blockers--he either needs to learn to float it or pass it out when he gets in there. Cannady looked more like his old self and really was very good driving the ball and hustling on D, but didn't give Princeton the explosion it needed from outside. Schweiger non-existent. Much exposed on D and didn't do much on offense. Desrosiers looked pretty good in limited minutes. Johns impressed me, especially with his on-ball defense--that dude really gets and stays in a stance.
One global concern in games like this is how much bad isolation play (where it's not even that isolated because the help comes over in the lane or at the rim) Princeton shows at critical times on possession after possession. It's not even drive and kick. It's drive and flail. It's pretty sad when I get nostalgic watching highlights of Wofford showing beautiful off-ball movement and passing out of the high post. Contested, desperate mid-range jumpers and low-percentage takes at the rim constituted far too much of the offense, although the offensive rebounding off these clunkers was quite good.
The other global concern was the return of inconsistency on defense. There were plenty of good-to-great possessions, but all too many where a guy was given too much space or an assignment was blown on a switch. Choh and Okolie and that guy off the bench were too good to afford giving them that much help.
A decent number of turnovers were forced, and on the whole, the mission of containing Cambridge was accomplished, despite a couple of flashy buckets for him--he took a number of high-degree-of-difficulty jump shots and missed most of them. So it wasn't a defensive disaster, but Princeton can do better than that.
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