re: 2016-17 Basketball Season Thread - WBB vs. MSU - W 67-55 - NATIONAL CHAMPS!!!

I don't know enough about basketball itself to give you as in depth an answer as you're probably looking for but I'll give ya what I know.

Tyler Davis mainly just played like crap that game. Started slow and it seemed to get in his head. Took himself out of it. Silva and Kotsar do a nice job down there though so credit to them is needed as well.

We don't give a lot of open looks at 3 pts, we do that fairly well but we also have the fluke of having UF go 0fer that padded the stats. I have no clue how that happened. They did get a decent # of looks but nothing was dropping for them. I don't know that we do anything all that special other than limiting open looks.

Silva absolutely gets in foul trouble every single game. When he takes longer to do it, he can absolutely take over a game. Monster blocker, rebounder and has pretty good touch on jump shots when he cant get all the way to the glass. When we get in foul trouble it mainly effects what we do on offense mainly. the defense holds up about the same but Silva and Kotsar are head and shoulders above the guys coming off the bench scoring wise. This is where you need to get a lead.

Midweek games do typically have lower attendance but this is an SEC game, there will probably be plenty of people there. Home court advantage is big for us. You let us hang around late, the crowd WILL take over.

If you want to win, feed the ball inside early to get Silva/Kotsar in foul trouble, make your shots from the charity stripe, and score as much as possible with them out of the game. Once Frank sends them back in we tend to go on a tear and get right back in it.