It is definitely a leadership thing.

However, on the game, while the comeback was nice, we really did nothing to deserve that game to be close. John caught fire briefly that got the game close, but that was followed by some really bad shots from him and others that we took. Our defense had some good stands late in the game, but NJIT hurt themselves more than we actually made stops on defense. It was a lay up line, but NJIT missed a lot of easy layups in the second half that allowed us to come back and make it a game.

Besides the relatively poor defense, the shot selection by us was just not good. Demir was trying to force things down low, even when doubled. Collectively we were taking off-balance, low quality jump shots out of nowhere. It was just bizarre because many of those shots did not need to be rushed. To me the team just needed to slow themselves down on offense. It felt like they were rushing when they were in the half court and our shooting naturally took a dive because of it. We also missed some easy shots right at the basket. Execution on offense in my eyes cost us this game.

The good was we absolutely crushed them on the boards. This was not unexpected against a guard driven team, however we didnt make them pay for it either. We had 16 offensive rebounds and we out-rebounded them as a whole by 17 (Plus 11 on offense and plus 6 on the defense). We gave ourselves 11 more shots than NJIT as a result. We couldn't capitalize. Onto the next game. These are winnable home games and it would be nice to pick up 2-3 wins out of the next 3 games to give more confidence as the OOC winds down.