2012 Colorado Basketball: Dayton vs Colorado Game Thread

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So what happens in the tourney if we lose tomorrow?

 

[CVilleBuff]

So what happens in the tourney if we lose tomorrow?

Then we'd play the loser of Murray State/St. John's for 3rd place. All 8 teams in this tournament get 3 games, just like we did in Puerto Rico last year when we lost the first two and then beat Western Michigan for 7th place.

 

[jgisland]

First let me give my congratulations to the young team toughing it out and persevering against competitive opposition.

I strongly disagree with the quoted statement. I think it gets it exactly backwards. This criticism was accurate last year when Booker lacked some patience and took some unnecessary risks trying to break the defense down. In the first two games, he has done a superb job running the offense. He has kept his head up and is looking for the pass. He is keeping the pressure on the defense with proper triple-threat technique. Dinwiddie, on the other hand, and Chen to a lesser extant, are being too passive, keeping the ball too long, not threatening anything and allowing the defense to reset.

I am rewatching the game right now, in the first 8 minutes Booker has taken 2 shots from one step inside the 3pt line after he got his defender in the air and had nobody between him and the basket. He also took an ill adivsed 3, 5 seconds into the shot clock on a 2 on 4 break. The shot he makes at the 6:13 mark from the baseline he doesn't wait for Scott to roll and for the set to develop.

 

[jgisland]

A couple things I noticed after watching it again:

stalzer is everything you want in a backup PG
i really liked the rotations, there weren't really any units
Scott's left hand is filthy
booker played a lot better in the 2nd half, much more under control

It's nice when they don't play great half way across the country and they win by 10. That trip to Europe is already paying for itself.