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(03-18-2017 07:29 AM)cleveland Wrote:  

(03-18-2017 12:47 AM)bopol Wrote:  I was thinking on this a bit.

For most of the Senderoff years, he had a promising team that folded at the end. Often times, the folding was due to injuries and there was some bad luck, but the teams in general underperformed in Feb and March. This year, it was reversed. A team that didn't look all that promising at all got their act together and won 9 out of 10 against the top competition in the MAC and earned the NCAA bid.

I've been happy with Coach Senderoff fixing what I thought was going wrong and I'm happy he did it without the team collapsing to 10-20 seasons, but now I'm hoping he, the coaching staff and the team can build off this experience and get back to being one of the elite teams in the MAC year in and year out again. Congrats to the team for a great year!

The offensive profile of this team will likely change, and it's hard to see ADR being more than a 15-20 minute backup inside at best. But if the team can keep its defensive and rebounding identity, and find a strong baseline scorer or two, it should be successful.

Senderoff has run his offense through the post consistently since he has been here. Unless he finds somebody like JGreene or JH in the next few months that might have to change.

Interesting times ... JWalker looks great as the No. 2 scorer ... interesting to see how that evolves, too.

Overall, I was pleased last night. Cut the lead to 4 in the second half and fought the refs and UCLA. Hell after the refs gave them the free 5 points (the missed OB call on UCLA and the negated AND1 for Hall, we were only down 6). Easily could have quit at that point. That said.....

I would argue last night we didn't have a defensive identity. We didn't force turnovers and while it's true UCLA did what they do to everyone in regards to 97 points, they way they got them was troubling for me. We allowed them so many absolutely wide open looks. Seriously, have you ever heard of a team going 12 minutes and not missing a single shot? (I know the answer is yes, but not very often) Kudos to them for knocking down shots, but I thought on the defensive end we just could have brought it a little more.