GAME THREAD: @ Pepperdine - Saturday - 2. 15. 20

[Hoopaholic]

That strategy makes me nervous and is going to fail one of these days. I prefer a 20 pt lead AE half and their fans headed for the exits.

Agree but when you only have two bigs can’t afford fouls

[bballbeachbum]

If they keep playing straight up then we need to keep going inside.

Basically, they are playing to keep us from shooting outside right now.

they aren't just playing straight up no matter what Corey says That has been the base, but also different things, testing to see what works, my opinion, then will see that help rotation 2nd half from Romar, we'll see

[bballbeachbum]

Ross to the bench, Zags press. nice

[Kong-Kool-Aid]

Tell you what, nobody but Petrol can make a shot so we might as well just keep feeding him.

[Kong-Kool-Aid]

they aren't just playing straight up no matter what Corey says That has been the base, but also different things, testing to see what works, my opinion, then will see that help rotation 2nd half from Romar, we'll see

Well, they aren't doubling Petrol, either way keep feeding him.

[bballbeachbum]

doubled off the feeder, caused a problem, forced miss from Petro eventually

[bballbeachbum]

Well, they aren't doubling Petrol, either way keep feeding him.

they just did actaully, and not the first time

[whatazag]

Guards not playing great so far

[Kong-Kool-Aid]

they just did actaully, and not the first time

lol splitting hairs. Most of the time they have not.

[gueastcoast]

Great opportunity to extend lead into the half and we have a series of bonehead plays

[Hoopaholic]

Guards not playing great so far

Other than kispert forcing action way to much. 6 turnovers

[GrizZAG]

Pepp certainly haven’t tried to slow it down.

[Kong-Kool-Aid]

Other than kispert forcing action way to much. 6 turnovers

You jinxed him!

[spike_jr]

Kispert needs to bit that wide open 3.

I’m still not digging the “rope-a-dope” to get to the second half. They had a great opportunity to rip their heart out with Ross on the bench, but in stead, gave up the lead

[kitzbuel]

Pepp certainly haven’t tried to slow it down.

I was about to say the same. Need to work on defending.

[bballbeachbum]

lol splitting hairs. Most of the time they have not.

lol, who is? I said they've gone M2M no help, but no only that, which is accurate

[Kong-Kool-Aid]

lol, who is? I said they've gone M2M no help, but no only that, which is accurate

And the best thing for us to do is to keep feeding Petrol until they start sending help We agree.

[Kong-Kool-Aid]

It's actually amazing how important Tillie is to this team.

I'd be okay if we rested him till the BYU game then rested him to the WCC Finals.

We need him to be as close to 100% as possible come tourny time.

[bballbeachbum]

Zags 7 - 3 Pepperdine in turnovers
Zags 3 - 4 Pepperdine o boards

that's 5 extra possessions

[bballbeachbum]

And the best thing for us to do is to keep feeding Petrol until they start sending help We agree.

yes, but Romar tested the waters with different double team rotations, not just the vanilla straight up. It came off the bounce, on the catch, baseline weakside, post feeder...we'll see which one he liked, or maybe all of them? that was my point Corey missed that, and I like Corey

[bballbeachbum]

we all miss things sometimes eh?

[MDABE80]

I hope we defend better this nxt half and score 60. Shock the writers!!

[kitzbuel]

we all miss things sometimes eh?

I’m missing Tillie, personally.

[bballbeachbum]

been a while since Joel put together a big half, could use one now, maybe the D will open up opportunities for him

[CdAZagFan]

It'd be nice to have Ayayi show up offensively