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Posted by Trey Ball (Member # 332) on 03-28-2015, 10:36 PM:

They are just terrible on defense tonight. Karl has scored but he has given up more than he has put up on the offensive end.

Lyles also just has given the ball away with his 5 TO's which have led to 12 ND points.

Crappy way to end the season. Oh well.

Posted by SCWC (Member # 2464) on 03-28-2015, 11:10 PM:

AT least they found a way to win on a night they really did not play any defense at all and their ball handling was suspect at best. Thank goodness for the Harrison twins down the stretch, they made the plays that won it for us.

Posted by WildcatFanatic (Member # 2932) on 03-28-2015, 11:10 PM:

I agree all except we still live to play another game! Oh and Lyles did help to to disrupt that final 3 pt. attempt by ND. Go Cats!

Posted by m hamilton (Member # 127) on 03-28-2015, 11:43 PM:

THey defended that final three well, I couldn't believe he still almost got it to go!

Posted by Trey Ball (Member # 332) on 03-28-2015, 11:53 PM:

Amen to all of the previous comments. Cal just commented on how KAT was not playing well defensively which was the main reason, instead of the 4 fouls, that he was going offense/defense with him down the stretch.

Posted by catmandoo (Member # 1284) on 03-29-2015, 12:03 AM:

You either guard the 3 and open up the middle or you pack it in down low and leave the 3 pointers open. We did enough to win the game and that's what it's all about. ND was 46% from the field but only 28% from the 3 point line. ND stays home and we move on!

Posted by rupps runt65 (Member # 1286) on 03-29-2015, 12:15 AM:

Darn right CMD we played good enough to win. ND by the way is damn good... But not quite good enough!!!

Posted by PaulCat (Member # 513) on 03-29-2015, 12:26 AM:

I still don't know how we won this game. [Smile]

Posted by Green-Bean (Member # 13551) on 03-29-2015, 05:15 AM:

we won but we did not deserve to.

Posted by SCWC (Member # 2464) on 03-29-2015, 07:27 AM:

Bean, we definitely earned it. On an off night defensively our offense came up big the last 12 minutes of the game. We are used to seeing our defense carry us, last night it was our offense.

Posted by GA Cat (Member # 642) on 03-29-2015, 08:01 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by Green-Bean:
we won but we did not deserve to.

I disagree. We made the plays down the stretch that turned the game around. We made our last 9 shots while ND was only 6 of their last 15. We did what we had to do down the stretch and because of that, we deserved to win and the team should be proud of what they accomplished!

Posted by Bama Cat (Member # 153) on 03-29-2015, 08:37 AM:

Even though we shot good down the stretch we did not play our normal last 10 minutes of the game because we couldn't defend them. We were very fortunate to win the game and I would hope they would learn from this. Earlier in the game we made numerous stupid plays that lost the ball for us. As Cal mentioned we actually threw the ball to them several times early in the game instead of throwing it to our players. I personally thought they were sleep walking for most of the game and wanted to go home and go to bed. This was a very good lesson for them to use in the next game.

Posted by m hamilton (Member # 127) on 03-29-2015, 08:40 AM:

2 of Lyles first half turnovers were passes right to ND!