Forward Greg Lee is set to miss another game today against Minnesota, per a report from Jon Rothstein. Micah Shrewsberry said on Monday that Lee was day-to-day, but it's still not clear when the big man will return to the court.
Basketball LIVE THREAD: Penn State Basketball versus Minnesota Part II
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PREVIEW/LIVE THREAD: Penn State Basketball versus Minnesota Part II
Here's everything you need to know about today's game between Penn State Basketball and Minnesota.
Maybe they are lost because they aren't at home?
Probably about every season since 2016-2017
"Scrappy" and "feisty" had the afternoon off.
Chambers had them playing good d, fyi. That's what #ATTITUDE was about
Shrews has them playing smart, competitive basketball. Once they get an influx of talent, things will get even better.
I will take Shrews any day over Chambers.
Chambers had some tough teams.
And the ones that weren't tough were scrappy and feisty.
Ldn.
Wide open shoots, sloping switching etc. etc.. Did you get the opposing team’s fg% against us. As I recall, ugly. Toss in poor rebounding.
This team is nothing like those imo.
This team has less continuity and probably less talent than any of Chambers teams over the last three or four years, yet they look like the better team. I think Shrewsbury’s coaching chops are already readily visible
Defensively they are better, especially Lundy. He was below avg over the last two years, he is now good to very good. Pats teams did not has as effective of game plans (doubling post guys when they shouldnt have and vice versa) but were more active to get in passing lanes and steals. Pace has a lot to do with the defensive numbers but defenders are doing a better job of closing out on shooters and with high pick and roll compared to years past.
Shrews is a coach who can do more with less, which is something that we have sorely needed until we get there
Our Adjusted Defensive Efficiency in Chambers last 3 seasons...
2020 - 23rd
2019 - 27th
2018 - 19th
This season - 43rd
We were playing great defense under Chambers (some of it was obviously personnel, as we had guys like Wheeler, Reaves, and Watkins who were difference makers at the defensive end). But I'm perplexed how someone could miss how good we've been defensively for a while.
Those teams had the guys you mentioned who created lots of steals as well as a rim protector in watkins. This team plays better team defense, has less lapses and has yet to have a game with a poor defensive game plan (maybe you could argue at minn, but I say it was just bad luck). PC had some, let's say 'interesting ' defensive plans at time, like doubling a non scoring post guy with the wing leaving the best shooter for an easy 3.
I thought our game plan was fine at Minnesota...we were forcing them to shoot long 2's and some of their non-shooters were making 3's. I thought some of our game plans were poor earlier in the season with continually letting 4's and 5's get open 3's when they were guys that could make them (and the refusal to play any zone in those games), but we've been doing a lot better job lately defending high screens. Though our offense would be helped by some more aggression at the defensive end, since we score so little in transition. We just have a different strategy now of staying in position and not overplaying anything...currently 352nd in the country (out of 358) in creating turnovers.
I was never a fan of our offense under Pat, but our defense was great in playing to our strengths. We used the defense to set-up offense, got tons of steals that fed our offense, etc. The numbers don't lie, and we had some tremendous defensive teams in his last several seasons (while playing to the strengths of our personnel).
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