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Auburn just beat Winthrop 80-62.
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Auburn just beat Winthrop 80-62.


Dec 17, 2014, 11:20 PM

Just goes to show that crazy things can happen in basketball.

To be fair to Winthrop, little Keon Johnson did not play.

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They mde some timely/lucky shots against Clemson....


Dec 18, 2014, 8:19 AM

It seemed like everytime we were about to get a critical stop, they would throw-up a prayer and it would go in.
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Winthrop was 24-62 (38.7%) against Clemson.


Dec 18, 2014, 9:53 AM

Furthermore, they were 9-23 (39.1%) from behind the 3pt line. The only place they had a good shooting night was at the FT line - 20-25 (80%).

We out shot them and out rebounded them. We simply couldn't turn them over - we committed 18 turnovers (contributing to their 12 additional shots), forcing only 8 - and we shot like crap from the FT line (23-39, 59.0%).

The reason the Winthrop game was an eye opener for many was simply that it WASN'T a case of Winthrop shooting the "lights out", but more of a case of our perimeter defense being abused by smaller, quicker guards - with just absolutely horrid helpside rotations on cutters. The rotations have improved considerably (to the detriment of the playing time of Ajukwa and Djitte), but neither Arkansas (a motion offense team, running through a transcendent post player in Bobby Portis) or Auburn (adapting to playing in Pearl's version of the flex offense) are as guard centric as Winthrop.

As for Auburn's win, they handled Winthrop the same way Purnell's teams dealt with low powered opposition - they increased the pace of the game to the point where Winthrop's 7-10 players of their rotation had to play heavy minutes (or face total exhaustion of their starters) and won the game on the relative depth of their bench.

By contrast, we've shortened the bench to the point where only 7 players play regular minutes. We don't have any depth, and so while we have increased the pace of play to approximately the D1 average (after being one of the 5 slowest teams in the nation a year ago), we don't want to push it any higher - it hurts us as much if not more than our opponents.

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Yeah...that was a bit of a misstatement.


Dec 18, 2014, 10:02 AM

I was really referring to some of the really timely/lucky shots they made. It seemed like everytime we were about to get a critically important stop, they would throw-up some three point prayer and it would go in.

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I was at the game, BigCU is right....They hit TIMELY shots


Dec 18, 2014, 11:19 AM [ in reply to Winthrop was 24-62 (38.7%) against Clemson. ]

not a lot of them or a high percentage...They just hit them every time they needed to extend their lead

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If this was football, we would be able to count the Winthrop


Dec 18, 2014, 11:17 AM

game as a W because we beat the SEC that beat them

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