Turnovers and rebounds

[HoyaFanNY]

that is what it comes down to IMO. sure, green looks like a kid playing cyo that is scared to shoot, but if we took care of the ball and rebounded like a team with the size we have should, then we'd be in much better shape. in the 3 losses we have been out rebounded by 5 total rebounds. not a big difference, but we have given up 33 offensive rebounds in those 3 games. this shouldn't happen.

and the turnovers. in the 3 losses, we have 32 assists and 48 turnovers! FORTY FRIGGING EIGHT! most are just bad plays. it's not the defense. we won't beat any decent team if we don't take care of the ball. we don't have the offensive fire power to overcome this sloppy play.

[Highsmith]

At least in the Duke game, Jeff did his job on the boards with 10, but where is the rest of the team?? Roy had 6, but should have had MANY more and the rest of the guys did nothing. On the turnover end, Jeff again led the team with 4. Sapp, despite seeming out of control at times in the second half, remains solid in the AST/TO department, with 4/2. I agree that most of the turnovers are just sloppy or stupid things and not a direct result of something great the defense did. We seem to turn the ball over more in one game this year than we would in 2 or 3 last year. These two things SEEM to be the easiest problems for this team to fix. If Jeff is messed up in his scoring, we may have to live with that.....and if we don't have the 3-pt shooters, we may have to live with that. We can overcome those things if we REBOUND and STOP TURNING THE DARN BALL OVER SO MUCH!!!

[mrsixer123]

How can jeff or roy consistantly get good rebounding position when they are at the 3 point line when we have the ball?

[Oh My!]

As posted elsewhere, both have the same RPG stats that they had last year. Turnovers & Defensive Rebounding, IMO are the more specific issues, as opponents have averaged 10 Offensive Boards per game against us, and we average nearly 15 TO per game.