re: Tide Hoops | 31-6 (16-2)

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But man, what a season. This team still brought us a lot of joy. Good days are ahead.

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100%

No voodoo to our seasonal shooting decline late in the year. Nate continues to push the pace and we are always among the top teams in Kenpom in that category. And despite the talk of all our depth, Oats seldom goes beyond about 8 deep for any significant length of time. And even that metric is probably distorted by Q being a quasi-starter with the amount of minutes he gets coming off the bench. It’s simply a matter of tired legs. Hard to avoid with the grind that the conference schedule is. You can’t take a night off or a Vanderbilt or South Carolina will punch your ticket. I don’t have an answer, but the problem is pretty obvious and pervasive. Either starters are going to have to get more rest late in the season, or Nate is going to have to change his pace/philosophy or find a higher percentage strategy for late season/tournament games.

Have you noticed that the shooting seems to get even worse in the tournament when the games are closer together? Iona almost beat us 2 years ago because we couldn’t hit water from a boat. This year it was SDSU. We’re just running out of gas, plain and simple.