Scholarship table
Well that's why we have the whole season right? Could our defense be even better? Absolutely, but after watching the consistently poor defensive displays last season, last night was a very encouraging step in the right direction.
Huh? Don't jump to contest a shot but rather stand there with your hands up? The defense was great. Markus knows he isn't going to be blocking shots so he attempted to take (and got 1 or 2) multiple charges when he was the help side defender. Otherwise there were multiple times where Ed and Theo both jumped straight up with their arms straight above their heads simply to contest knowing they wouldn't get a clean block, absorbed contact from the driver, and forced a horrible miss while the driver went to the ground and the ref correctly motioned for verticality as they looked for a foul call. And when a layup was all but guaranteed, we hammered them and sent them to the line. And then had a large number of blocked shots.If you want to complain that a couple times a guy like Joey got caught sprinting out to the perimeter after helping on a driver and got beat when the guy he was guarding put the ball on the deck instead of letting the shot go, sure. But then you'd basically be complaining that we didn't shut the team out.The defense was great. The opponent wasn't. We'll see if the defense continues to be great when the opponent is also great.
TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.
Wojo's post-game.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuASXwsOpSIIke is out indefinitely.
The opponent was not good....but we've played a lot worse teams over the past 14 years. And we held them to the lowest FG% since 2004. It's one game so I'm not going to get giddy about it, but there was nothing but positive signs on the defensive end yesterday. So much length. Such good help defense.
I am sure that Marquette University would give him a full ride for as long as it took to get his degree. I'm sure Wojo would keep him involved with the basketball program as well.But yeah his basketball scholarship would be released and he would receive a different type of aid package.
Markus is going to have bad shooting games........MU needs he and Sam to be aggressive......Wojo said it in the post game. A bad shot for others might not be a bad shot for Markus or Sam.
There is no stat for it, but one of the most telling things to me was the fact that at least 4-5 times we forced them into shot clock situations where it was less than 5 seconds. I can't remember the last time an MU defense was capable of doing that. Yes, we didn't necessarily generate a ton of turnovers but we limited the looks we gave them to questionable ones or at right denied them looks.Improvement, let's see if it gets consistent.
I'm surprised this isn't tracked yet. It's kind of like a QB pressure in football, which seems to be mentioned in just about every game I've watched the last few years. This kind of stat could be very telling of what kind of defense a team has.