valleychamp wrote:Lol at Moran not being able to defend freaking Ethan Wragge. He is one of our more versatile defenders, and often defends 6'7 wing players. Moran guarded Xavier Henry in the KU game, and did a heck of a job.
UNI has played fantastic team defense under BJ. that has always been the great equalizer for us. You can argue all you want about individual matchups (and we do not match up with a lot of teams individually), but if we are holding teams to >60 points, we are going to win most of those games.
Its no doubt that CU probably has the best big men in the league this year, but I think their guard play is average at best. Who is going to score?
WuDrWu wrote:I will give you your "due" respect......
I am not saying Moran isn't a good defender. I am saying the success of the team defense is as much (I am saying more) a factor of the size, strength, experience and width of (especially) the 2 bigs that graduated.
Do you not understand that Moran can play "up" and Kujo can take more chances when there is a 7' beast waiting in the lane and without that deterrent they might find the same defense not as successful?
Where as the guards didn't have to help much on D with the bigs, they are going to have a lot more this year. A LOT more. That can affect the quality of shots the other team takes. More open shots, more makes. More makes, more points. More points, more losses.
As I said, if the new guys are as good as the 3 that left, then UNI is in fine shape. That would be unusual to see youngsters that strong but perhaps you guys are just that good.
WuDrWu wrote:valleychamp wrote:Lol at Moran not being able to defend freaking Ethan Wragge. He is one of our more versatile defenders, and often defends 6'7 wing players. Moran guarded Xavier Henry in the KU game, and did a heck of a job.
UNI has played fantastic team defense under BJ. that has always been the great equalizer for us. You can argue all you want about individual matchups (and we do not match up with a lot of teams individually), but if we are holding teams to >60 points, we are going to win most of those games.
Its no doubt that CU probably has the best big men in the league this year, but I think their guard play is average at best. Who is going to score?
No offense, but you aren't that sharp. Now you are saying Moran can stop Henry. Immediately back away from the bong water.
Yes, IF you are holding teams to under 60 points, you're going to win a lot of games. NO, you aren't going to do that without the big senior talent you had last year. You don't get the game of basketball, but that's ok.
You've got to stop looking at one game (admittedly, 1 gorgeous game) against KU and projecting every positive from that game onto the future of UNI athletics.
I hope you are capable of understanding without Koch, OWI and Farokmadenijiad the final score of that game is somewhere in the 126-12 range.
Look, UNI will still be solid, well coached, disciplined and play as a team. They will win more games than they will lose in all likelihood. If the freshman talent is better than everyone thinks it is, and they are ready to be 1st or 2nd team type players, then perhaps they will challenge for the top of the Valley. As I said before, this result would be more than surprising.
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