Nova thoughts

[warriorfred]

Wilson's threes is why we beat St. John's. In retrospect I think the Villanova game was a repeat of last year's problem where the team got tired at the end of games. When the wheels started coming off we were getting a lot of touch fouls on defense, which we were not getting before. During the game I thought the refs were just calling it tighter, but now I think we were tired, which resulted in us using our hands more. Being tired leads to poor decisions and poor execution. Normally, we play eight players and the prior two games we played 9 with Heldt getting some minutes. With Johnson out and Heldt not being used we only played 7 players in a game that basically required effort on every play. I am not saying we would of won with Johnson, but I do believe we were hampered by having only 7 players. Again, if we would of played Heldt ans Sacar some we probably would not of won, but we would not have been as tired at the end of the game.

Really good observation.  The team seemed incredibly low energy for extended periods in the 2d half.