“I think if we play this at Viejas and it’s close game,” he said, “maybe we come out on the other end.” With his ears still ringing Tuesday night, Dutcher was asked about playing in one of college basketball’s loudest road venues. Said Waters, who played for the Trojans last year: “The fact they went in and won the way they won is pretty impressive.” Grand Canyon shot 67 percent over the final 18 minutes and led by 13.Īnd now they’re facing a team that last year nearly won at Viejas Arena (and didn’t thanks to a Micah Parrish corner 3 with 2.4 seconds left) and this year won 70-60 at USC. UCSD went on an 18-4 run midway through the second half and led by 14. Washington and Cal both erased 12-point deficits in the closing minutes to force overtime. Long Beach State shot 58 percent in the second half. The Aztecs are ranked 28th nationally in defensive efficiency, but that number is steadily decreasing as opponents find increasing offensive joy as games wears on.īYU shot 68 percent over the final 16 minutes. And the heavy minutes, logic suggests, are contributing to tired legs and minds - and ultimately defensive lapses - in the second half. Another is to start 6-10 freshman Miles Heide at the 5 and leave everyone else as is.Įither way, it depletes an already depleted (and largely unproductive) bench that has meant heavy minutes for the starters. One option is to insert 5-foot-10 Darrion Trammell into the starting lineup and go small, with 6-8 Elijah Saunders as a de facto center. “It’s a like an ankle sprain but on the elbow.”Īsked what he’ll do if LeDee can’t go, Dutcher replied: “That’ll be interesting.” “It hurts, it hurts to move,” Dutcher said. The double-double machine sprained his right elbow in the second half Tuesday, spent the last two practices exclusively on the exercycle and is considered questionable for UC Irvine. The other: Whether Jaedon LeDee, who single-handedly is responsible for 29 percent of their points and 27 percent of their rebounds and 34 percent of their free throws, takes the floor at all. So that’s one big issue when they take the floor against the Anteaters. It’s more, as a team, buying in and communicating and being on the same page.” We’ve shown spurts in games of shutting teams down for six, seven straight possessions. We have to get better defensively.”Īdded guard Reese Waters: “I think it’s more of a focus thing than us not being able to do it. “We’re trying to challenge them defensively. “A lot of it is just getting back to our fundamentals, because if you’re not fundamentally sound defensively, it doesn’t matter what you do,” Dutcher said.
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