Fun 1st half

Need more touches in the paint.

I think with moving the 3 point line back you need to work your offense and maybe rely on the 10-12 footers and get the sure 2pt. Shooting the 3 pts is going to drop shooting % big timer, Under Howard I think they are going to need another big too, because with the bigger area They see more touches and opportunity.

Agreed. Also Teske is getting out hustled for rebounds.

I only saw the last few minutes. Impressed that creighton needed shots when getting the ball with 33.3 to go, and did not score for 30 seconds.

fishgoblue22 wrote:

Agreed. Also Teske is getting out hustled for rebounds.

What I found disturbing is how WINDED he looked at times, after lengthy periods of up-and-down-the-court.
Without a Moe or an Iggy to spell him, I guess the added minutes would get to any 7-1, 245-pounder.
Hoping Castleton can soon step up to provide quality---or even marginal---minutes of relief for Big Jon inside.

michmike wrote:

fishgoblue22 wrote:

Agreed. Also Teske is getting out hustled for rebounds.

What I found disturbing is how WINDED he looked at times, after lengthy periods of up-and-down-the-court.
Without a Moe or an Iggy to spell him, I guess the added minutes would get to any 7-1, 245-pounder.
Hoping Castleton can soon step up to provide quality---or even marginal---minutes of relief for Big Jon inside.

I agree. Castleton needs to step up.

Was at the game last night. Did not see any lack of hustle from Teske. He does get winded as most 7 footers do. We play a quicker tempo under Juwan than Beilein and Creighton played fairly fast too. I cannot think of a single instance where we had to fire up a late clock shot whereas that was fairly common under our old offense. I did think that Juwan did a good job of giving him frequent short rests.

I also thought Juwan was far more engaged vocally and physically (hand and arm signals) than in the first game though maybe I could just see it better at the arena instead of TV.

Nunez is a big liability on defense- he just could not stay in front of his man. On the other hand that is the best I've seen DDJ play. Livers, Z, and Teske were all great.

How about Kentucky losing at home to Evansville?

wshoes wrote:

Was at the game last night. Did not see any lack of hustle from Teske. He does get winded as most 7 footers do. We play a quicker tempo  under Juwan than Beilein and Creighton played fairly fast too. I cannot think of a single instance where we had to fire up a late clock shot whereas that was fairly common under our old offense. I did think that Juwan did a good job of giving him frequent short rests.

I also thought Juwan was far more engaged vocally and physically (hand and arm signals) than in the first game though maybe I could just see it better at the arena instead of TV.

Nunez is a big liability on defense- he just could not stay in front of his man. On the other hand that is the best I've seen DDJ play. Livers, Z, and Teske were all great.

How about Kentucky losing at home to Evansville?

On tv it looked as though Creighton was a step faster going after rebounds. Especially in the first half. I wanted more touches in the paint, and that's what UM did to close out the game.

I can't believe Kentucky lost. But it's college basketball and upsets happen.

fishgoblue22 wrote:

I can't believe Kentucky lost.  But it's college basketball and upsets happen.

Yeah, quite a surprise.  Then again, the 'Cats were playing a decent opponent, not that Ag school they beat in NYC...