Elliot CadeauAfter the gameMichigan 101, Howard 80NCAA First RoundGame page →
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Q1 Feeding Aday Mara in the second half
Yaxel Lendeborg was saying that in the huddles in the second half, you were just saying get the ball to Aday, and that was the goal. How did you guys realize that had to be how you guys wanted it to be?
We felt like offensively we weren't getting anything we wanted the whole game, but down the stretch we knew that they were attacking Aday as a mismatch on the perimeter. I just thought, why not attack them as a mismatch on the other side? So we just get him the ball. He was just scoring every single time.
Q3 Defensive adjustment against threes
When they, when they're hitting all those 3s, what was the adjustment? Was it changing something? Was it Scouting report, kind of?
Just having more effort. We played teams like Nebraska, teams like Wisconsin that have shooters at all 5 positions, and, you know, like, we feel like they're probably a more talented team than Howard was, and we felt like if we get out to them, we can get out to these guys. We just changed our effort, just getting out there quicker, trying to take away the 3 attempts.
Q7 Keep feeding the bigs
Yaxel Lendeborg, you were saying like 1, 2, 3, get the ball to Aday. Yeah.
Is that the mentality in the second half? Yeah, I mean, our bigs were having their way, getting anything they wanted. We felt like nobody could stop them out there. And we just wanted to get them the ball. I don't think Morez Johnson missed a shot in the second half or something like that. So we just wanted to get them the ball.
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