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Had this article been written last year, I might agree with it a bit more. This year not so much. Huff has shown his defensive abilities and his willingness to become a lockdown defender. He is getting better passing out of double/triple teams but still needs some improvement there. There is less selfish play this year and he seems more at ease with coaches, teammates, and within the offense.

Front court depth has been an issue this year with Wall, Houdek, and now Evers all banged up. But the main issue has been turnovers. Our guards are careless with the ball and it has killed us in games this season.

That makes me sick. If the chancellor wants an office, then give him one of the damn cubicles.

We killed them on the boards, not sure what the total numbers were though.

Yeah, they really suffer from lack of a strong point guard and their attempts at breaking the half-court were often ridiculous. When they actually got into their set offense, things went well. But then too many were slow-footed back in transition and they gave away far too many easy layups. Also too slow rotating either in zone or man defense and closing out on the three point shooter for Sac. I do have to say that out of the three point guards I saw last night (Williams, Mills, Burck), Burck was the one that gave us the most on the floor. She played good defense for the most part and actually presented an outside threat to shoot. Whenever Williams or Mills are in, I never think they will take a shot and neither does most defenses, allowing their defender to sag. Last night, Jones should take some notes from Brewster on how to get shooters open. The plays Brewster runs to get Lauck open shooting space are very nicely designed and run. Jones should take notes and start mirroring some of them for Schuler.

Apparently you can tap a rebound back past half court and get away with it now. Terrible officiating on that

Brewster needs to start benching Williams when she just throws the ball away. Been here 4 minutes and seen it 3 times

I just kept thinking during the game, "How good of a team would you have if you combined EWU's frontcourt with UND's backcourt?"

Archer needs to learn how to set screens

Our offense, just as our defense, is going to live and die by the improvements of the line play. Last year we had senior quarterbacks, one who was incredibly quick on his reads, the other incredibly quick on his feet, and therefore they could help out the line. This next year we will have a freshman quarterback who will need that extra second or two to be able to make the reads. What will help Mollberg is his mobility, and I don't think Bartels is a stationary rock like Hanson was either. But we also need the line to move people on the LOS. That's why our running game failed (along with some questionable play-calling, i.e. running Miller between the tackles but Sutton off-tackle). We've seen how good our running game can be when our line actually creates gaps and moves the defense (Fresno State). As the line goes, so does Miller, he's not a guy that's going to create for himself like Northern Arizona's RB.

At the game, they are giving 4 every call, nevermind he almost always initiates contact

Not a bad background. Hopefully he can bring some success with him.

Jones needs to actually get control of the team, they seem to just do whatever they want out there on the court. Not sure if that's what Jones wants, but I can't imagine that it is.

Yeah I believe it's LetsGoSioux! I didn't have a problem with this thread until he posted

Here's one.

In the past week or two I've been getting a Chrome warning about malware when trying to view certain threads. Not all threads but most noticeably in the Football and Men's Hockey forums.

Poor shooting by UND but a lot of turnovers by Jamestown kept us in the thick of it for a long time before we were able to pull away. The Jamestown coach was hilarious to watch, seeing as how he wanted a foul called on just about everything. I especially loved him throwing the marker in the air when #41 was called for elbowing (a legit call).

What's the word on Huff for this game?

Rowney - assists Rocco and Simpson

According to SFI, Jake Disterhaupt committed to us, looks like as a safety.

My two cents, although much of what I was thinking has already been mentioned. Going to agree with folks that Webb is simply playing too many minutes. Get him more rest in games, especially for when we get into the bulk of conference games. We need him strong at the end. I thought that Allard looked good when he was being aggressive in his limited minutes. He was actually attacking the basket with a bad shot, drawing a foul, and making a nice pass to Brekke for an easy layup. Need to see more of that out of him, but that is also something that we should see more with Huff returning. Everyone is talking about the poor free throw shooting of Webb, but something that needs to be looked at in this game is the performance of our bigs. We got out-muscled on the boards and that comes back to Wilmer and Brekke. A single offensive player pulling down a rebound and putting back a basically uncontested layup when there are 4 white jerseys around him is just sad. Other than a few plays, we had almost no post presence all game in the offensive zone. Wilmer sounded so good against SDSU that I was hoping to see him develop that. Last night he showed nothing other than a few blocks and the early on pick and roll which disappeared through the course of the game.

When was the last time we actually wore the black jerseys for a home game?

Joy for the NCAA screwing over something fun yet again.

Anyone remember what sort of discipline was handed out to Rau for that hit? Obviously the 5 and game misconduct but was there anything given after the game? Pretty dirty shot

This is mostly the same team as last year, minus the Mothersheds and with Wall being injured. Shows how important solid guard play can be. Eventually some of our guards are going to figure out how to effectively run this offense right?