[Old School Hound]

Our defensive approach is awful. Too many ball watch wanting to make that steal and score. Too many times we jump at the shooters and all they do is pump fake and then shoot a wide open shot. We need to deny our man the ball. Make it a tougher shot. Teams shoot wide open and that is why they shoot as well against us. Is it the players, yes. They should do better. But it is also the coaches because they should be working on getting them out of those habits. It is February now and they do the same things wrong.

The coaches are absolutely working on getting them out of those habits. I hear Leach and Givens all the time talk about the different drills they work on in practice. And Cal talks about it, too. Teenage kids don't always play the way they practice. Cal's teams have always gotten better and better on defense as the season progresses. He has always stressed defense. This group falls back into lazy, gambling, undisciplined behaviors on the defensive end.  Do we just sit five or six of them until they figure it out? Reed was wonderful running the offense but was woeful in defending, as were most everyone else except for Ugo.