[NU Sports] Northwestern-DePaul

[dave bradley]

I think the game also showed another recurring theme: if the 'Cats play a team who throws a good zone defense at them and forces them to shoot from outside the Cats at risk. 

While NU did a bit better job (I didn't check game stats) from 3-pt range last night than in the past, DePaul created that NU's mid-game scoring drought by forcing NU to - many times - pass the ball around the perimeter for 20 seconds and throw up something just before the shot clock expired.  While having Thompson in the middle to try to recover off rebounds will help, the Cats have to work harder at penetrating the zones and use 3-pt shooting as a backup in some of those situations.

It was nice to see Seacat drain a couple of 3's.....

dave bradley '77
ddave at NUsports.com


--- "Roy S. Lamberton" <rstetson at capps-assoc.com> wrote:

From: "Roy S. Lamberton" <rstetson at capps-assoc.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 11:21:32 -0500
To: "'Michael Jackson'" <bondscoop at megapathdsl.net>,
	"'NU Sports List '" <nwu-sports at romaine.tssi.com>
Subject: RE: [NU Sports] Northwestern-DePaul

As BC hinted after the game...

A Win is a Win.

He did give Mike Thompson credit for the victory...I think the rest of the team
had a little bit to do with it, including Mohamed's 3 of 4 FT's at the end of
the game.

Should build a bit of confidence in his shot, along with that good 3 in the 2nd
half.

Go Cats!

rsl

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com 
> [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of Michael Jackson
> Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 11:12 AM
> To: NU Sports List 
> Subject: RE: [NU Sports] Northwestern-DePaul
> 
> 
> DePaul inexplicably stopped feeding Greer at the end of the 
> game.  They went three or four possessions without getting 
> him a touch.  Credit NU's improved D with stopping their best 
> scorer.  They also took away the driving lanes for Mejia.  
> 
> NU's offense still needs work.  Doyle doesn't have a shot, 
> Hachad lacks confidence in his shot, TJ has the make-up to be 
> the go-to-guy but lacks the consistency, Vedran needs to be 
> more selfish- he has the touch but needs to get more 
> aggressive when he has the ball, Michael shows potential in 
> spite of the rustiness- he needs to work on his rebounding, 
> he was out of position on a lot of rebounds, probably just 
> needs game time experience.
> 
> It was an ugly win but winning ugly is still an improvement 
> over the earlier games this year.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com]
> On Behalf Of Sanford_Stein at rush.edu
> Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 9:48 AM
> To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
> Subject: [NU Sports] Northwestern-DePaul
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> The turnaround happened when Carmody replaced Hachad
> with the much-maligned Duvancic.  DePaul had been hitting a
> lot of short jumpers by simply out-leaping the defenders. the 
> extra height in the lane seemed to take that away and they 
> couldn't adjust to setting up outside shots.
> 
> Also credit Doyle, who had been invisible for the whole game, 
> with a key steal and a key rebound (which he ripped out of 
> the hands of a much bigger guy) during the 11-0 run.
> 
> 
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