Biggest difference between last night and WVa game

[JerseyCat84_rivals57050]

Our players couldn't make shots from the perimeter. Ulis, Lyles, and Booker they usually make those. Otherwise we win pretty comfortably, IMO.

This post was edited on 3/29 12:29 PM by JerseyCat84

 

[psuweather]

I think the two games are difficult to compare. The "5 out" continual play call for ND and side pick in rolls were simply very difficult to defend. ND is a FAR superior overall team compared to WVU.

 

[brewtuscat]

Lyles true ulis and booker were fine.

Biggest difference is ND's offense is light years beyond WVU and KAT struggles to guard pick and roll.

 

[TruBluCatFan]

psuweather is exactly right.
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[KyFaninNC]

Disagree, our defense sucked last night. Kept letting a 6'4" white guy outrebound our 7 footers,and gave up too many layups.

 

[jarms24]

Huh? We shot 50% from the perimeter. Booker was 2/3 and Ulis was 1/1 for what might have been the biggest bucket of the game. I'll give you Lyles though. He didn't shoot it well, and he had 5 costly turnovers.

Also, our game plan was never to live by 3's. We were trying to exploit ND's lack of interior size/ depth. Taking it to Auguste was the key, and that's why KAT prospered.


This post was edited on 3/29 12:33 PM by jarms24

 

[JerseyCat84_rivals57050]

Originally posted by jarms24:
Huh? We shot 50% from the perimeter. Booker was 2/3 and Ulis was 1/1 for what might have been the biggest bucket of the game. I'll give you Lyles though. He didn't shoot it well, and he had 5 costly turnovers.

Ulis was 1 for 3. He made a 3 pointer late and it was huge I'll give you that.

 

[JerseyCat84_rivals57050]

Andrew 0-2 , Aaron 2-7. Of course they made huge clutch shots but if a few more of those go in we win by 8-10.

 

[jarms24]

Originally posted by JerseyCat84:

Originally posted by jarms24:
Huh? We shot 50% from the perimeter. Booker was 2/3 and Ulis was 1/1 for what might have been the biggest bucket of the game. I'll give you Lyles though. He didn't shoot it well, and he had 5 costly turnovers.

Ulis was 1 for 3. He made a 3 pointer late and it was huge I'll give you that.

Ahh, good catch. Still though, we collectively shot 50% from 3. I don't think our perimeter offense was the difference between those 2 games. I think it had more to do with our opponents and our poor P&R defense.

 

[JerseyCat84_rivals57050]

Originally posted by jarms24:

Originally posted by JerseyCat84:

Originally posted by jarms24:
Huh? We shot 50% from the perimeter. Booker was 2/3 and Ulis was 1/1 for what might have been the biggest bucket of the game. I'll give you Lyles though. He didn't shoot it well, and he had 5 costly turnovers.

Ulis was 1 for 3. He made a 3 pointer late and it was huge I'll give you that.

Ahh, good catch. Still though, we collectively shot 50% from 3. I don't think our perimeter offense was the difference between those 2 games. I think it had more to do with our opponents and our poor P&R defense.

I think nerves. Lyles mentioned they were nervous, the freshmen at least and yes ND was most definitely a step up.

This post was edited on 3/29 12:37 PM by JerseyCat84

 

[WildMoon]

the difference is we didn't kill them when we should have.

For example, had KAT done what he was doing at the end of the game at the beginning. This game would probably have been a blow out.

Which would have opened up our shooters and that would have completely destroyed their confidence.

 

[DORTONCAT]

I think that the team was so "up" for WVA and after playing so well they had a little let down. I was concerned that this may happen as it does happen very often in sports and particularly since the games were so close together. Several of our key players got off to a slow start and WCS really didn't get going at all on the offensive end. However, they "ground it out" and came up with the win. I think the team will perform much better against Wisconsin.

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[Blue Decade]

Originally posted by JerseyCat84:
They really couldn't make any shots from the perimeter. Ulis, Lyles, and Booker they usually make those. Otherwise we win pretty comfortably, IMO.

What game were you watching? Kentucky actually shot very well, 25-48 from the floor, 4-8 from 3. ND was outstanding. The Irish only turned the ball over 7 times. It was a strong effort in a losing cause, played against a better team. Aside from obvious differences in talent level, the biggest difference between the WV game and last night's game was that Huggins prepared his game plan based on what his team did best against Buffalo and Maryland, whereas Brey prepared his game plan after carefully studying Kentucky's defensive tendencies and weaknesses. Brey based ND's game plan on pick and roll action, which we have not defended well. He ran the high pick man, usually Auguste, to the rim for roll passes and offensive rebounds. We did not adjust to this until late in the 2nd half. It almost cost us. But we won anyway, because we played hard and shot well. I give ND credit for giving us a great game.

 

[UKWildcats#8]

Our guards, other than Booker, did not shoot well overall...I'll give the OP that. That said, from 3 we were a very efficient 4/8.

The big issue was defense.

As far as offense, the first half killed UK...UK missed tons of bunnies and had two stupid TO's that led to 5-6 ND points in key spots.

 

[CELTICAT]

We had a lot more freedom to drive in the WVU game, whereas last night everything was feeding the post with very little high screen action. We made it work in the end, but I hope we go back to playing an offense that even mildly resembles the dribble drive.

 

[TnKat]

Originally posted by KyFaninNC:
Disagree, our defense sucked last night. Kept letting a 6'4" white guy outrebound our 7 footers,and gave up too many layups.

I agree with PSU. ND effectively spread us all over the floor and used smaller people to blow through those open gaps. Along with a lot of other game plan that worked. I think it will benefit us in the next games.

 

[LowCountryCat]

Actually it was a bunch of layups we missed. We win by 10 if we make those in the first half.

 

[TheOtherGreatOne]

Biggest difference was Notre Dame is a 25 point better team than West Virginia

 

[oldsports_]

That is racist!! lol..jkng
He had 9 rebounds, about 4 less than all three of our bigs.

 

[KyCatFan1]

A huge difference is the refs let them play more than the WVU game. There were 50 fouls called in that game compared to I believe 26 in this one. I mentioned it in another thread, but if I were Coach Cal, I would say the Wisconsin game will be a street fight. Maybe the refs call it tighter and our depth gives us a huge advantage.
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[ZakkW]

Defensive rebounding and shot-clock beaters. The Auguste guy had at least a couple of lay-ups/Grant nailed the 25 footer at the end of the 35; also several follow-up dunks thanks to UK's big men leaving Auguste to try for the shot block.

 

[Rhavic]

Offensively, we were fine from deep. It was from mid-range where we done so poorly last night. Lyles missed a couple of easy mid-range jumpers, as did Ulis, Booker as well.
Something we did a poor job of last night was attacking the mid-range game. Luckily, we did just fine from the outside, and very well on the inside.
Got beat off the bounce quite a bit last night. Luckily, Wisconsin is slower, and in the tournament, Wisconsin is playing very poorly defensively.

 

[jrm693]

They turned us over a lot more than we were used to, then when Lyles is left to do the shooting from outside that is not his forte. Notre Dame had a great game plan other than trying to guard KAT one on one, which we took lapses not exploiting.