With the tournament coming up and the close of the Pac-10, I'll be surprised if he's not totally focused. He's going to the boards. He's being selective with his shots, using his ability to take the ball to the basket and create opportunities. I think he'll be right on everything for the rest of the year.
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We played in Maui and beat Kansas, lost to Michigan State in overtime and lost to Connecticut. That's not quite like losing to Sisters of the Poor. If you want to be ranked, you really need to play those kinds of teams. But if you want to be recognized in the RPI, you need to play the good teams. So that's been a little bit of our story.Lute Olson
Ivan is capable of doing that. We didn't do a good job of finding him. We'll get that straightened out, I think.
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In the first half we could not buy a basket. Washington made us take the shots that they wanted us to take. Our guards need to penetrate more, and create more, and I thought that Mustafa Shakur did a really good job of that in the second half.
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We have not been involving the big guys as much as we needed to. It's sort of like we did with (former UA forward) Luke Walton, where we're starting a lot of the things through Ivan, and that's because he's a threat to score, he's an excellent passer and he's going to use good judgment on his passes.
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I just think that non-conference schedules can be so different that I'm not sure you get a good read on a team until league play starts. (Being at home all the time) doesn't give you a true picture of how you're going to do, especially with new guys. New guys will perform better at home because of the security from the support of the crowd.
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We'll see if they are down a little bit once the Pac-10 season starts. They haven't played away from Seattle, only in the Wooden Classic (in Anaheim).
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