Re: Yesterday’s game

Was decided by a very good coaching move by the Miami staff. When the second half began Miami went to a different offensive approach to the game that really worked. On offense they kept their big man inside around the basket and had the other four players spread out just behind the three point line. That forced Clemson to bring their defensive players all outside away from the basket. With some breaks to the basket and good passing they were able to get a one on one in almost every play. It worked the entire half. They never strayed from that approach a single time. It also preventing the Tigers from getting the ball quickly up the court and scoring easily. I’m anxious to see if the Tiger coaches learned anything from this.

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Feb 5, 2023, 9:15 AM

Thanks Forrest. I watched the first half, but went to a friend’s house for dinner. And though he “…was dvr’ing the game for us to watch the second half when I got there…”, he had the game on live and I walked in with 6 min to go and we were down by 6 (as I recall).

This morning, I looked at the stats and saw we shot well, we scored almost 30 more points than my neighbor’s Vols did while beating Auburn 46-43. However, we were outrebounded by almost 10 - with 7 of those being off rebounds, and though we only had 16 fouls to Miami’s 13, we only shot 9 FTs to their 26.

My assumption was that they must have driven to the basket a LOT - and were fouled.

Look like a good game to go back and study the tape for our coaching staff.

On the positive side, someone mentioned playing a weak schedule and non competitive games being s negative. Playing tougher games such as this should be a plus. Especially losing it, hopefully we should get better from it!

GO TIGERS!!!