dpdoughbird06
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Birds missed three bunnies at point-blank range on a single possession and went ice cold from the floor in the second half.The scheme has nothing to do with it. They get a lot of open looks and looks they want. Scheme has nothing to do with unforced turnovers. Scheme has nothing to do with missed high percentage shots. Talent is the issue.
Talent sets a higher floor and pushes the ceiling up, as well. This team most of us figured had a .500 Valley ceiling and a low floor given the turnover and new coaching staff getting its bearings.
Last night was a “floor” game from midway through the first half onward. It happens.
We’re not this bad, but the glaring weaknesses were exposed: no shutdown perimeter defender to heat check a scorer, and no answer for Krikke/King inside; even though Krikke didn’t score a ton, he shut down anything we wanted to do inside (on postgame interview Pedon said our post-ups netted zero points).
With the new Arch Madness format, we knew this was a Thursday year pretty quickly, so now let’s root for momentum and progress and keep an eye on potential favorable matchups in STL.
I’d rather not see us play Valpo again until Krikke graduates.