Penndemonium
PhD Student
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Reg: 11-29-04
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01-15-19 02:21 AM - Post#272637
In response to SRP
I thought Wang definitely looked more limited.
That said, I'm confident that we were more heavily game planned. If you were Princeton, why wouldn't you invest extra time and effort to research an opponent who you will see 2 or 3 times during the year, who is clearly one of the few teams standing between you and the conference title and tournament, and one for whom game planning is likely to help the most (i.e. the talent isn't really superior one-on-one or athletically, so you want to disrupt their game flow). Even if they didn't invest the effort, they clearly already know more about us from playing us last year.
Princeton clearly took away the backdoor passes and defended the cuts. Those are the plays that allowed us to get easy baskets for a team that doesn't shoot so straight. We relied on guard penetration (difficult shots from Woods and Goodman), outside shooting (only Washington could shoot), and Brodeur's inside moves (he got decent shots but a lot didn't fall). We are averaging 15 assists a game, but we only got 7 in the first game and 9 in the second.
That is what went wrong. I think that we will be right back in the race when our players are healthy. I always thought the Ivy season was going to be tough.
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