They started to double down on Jake a little bit, and we did a poor job of reversing the ball and trying to get into a weak-side post. They did what they had to do to stop Jake. We have to have other kids step up at that point.
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We did a good job on the threes. We gave them different looks double down, fake double down and weak-side help.
There was some banging around in the middle, the ball got pushed outside to our wing and she finished it weak-side. It was kind of like a backdoor pass.
I have to give them credit. They shot the heck out of the ball, especially early on. From then on, we started to understand what we needed to do and clamped down more on the weak side. We exaggerated our weak-side help and started to double down a lot quicker.
I would prefer to stay at middle linebacker, but if I go to the weak-side, that would be fine, too. It depends on what they want.
We had good weak-side help. Antonio did a good job of defending him. That's where it is really valuable having a player like Antonio. Nobody can shut down Taylor - we can limit him. We'll be successful like we were tonight.
If you do the same thing against those guys every single time down the floor, they're eventually just going to pick you apart. So we just tried to change. We tried to get some weak-side help sometimes. We got up in the lane to try to discourage post feeds
We're just carrying out our assignments better, ... Our weak-side defense is better, and we're rebounding better.
This is why this team is good. We do protect each other. A good example was the Ohio State game. You had one guy fronting (Terence) Dials and another guy coming weak-side on him and we made a couple of big plays that way. You had someone there to help you out.
Their weak-side help had a lot to do with that. We'd beat the first defender, but the secondary defense was outstanding.
We wanted to front him. Going in, we thought he was about 6-foot-4. We didn't watch too much tape on him. We got here and he was 6-foot-6 and it was a surprise to me. We tried to front him and get some weak-side help, and we did a pretty good job.
I've got enough problems I'm not worried about what's going through his head. I just think it's just been really good team defense our weak-side defense has been great since we played them.
We were able to take advantage of their weak-side running game. It started off with the first play of the game, and we just continued to do that.