RE: Temple men’s bb 2019-2020
Maryland beat Temple 76-69, but the score does not reflect how close the game was as Temple trailed by only 3-points with only 53 seconds remaining in the game. Temple should have won, been been 5-0, and ranked among the top 25 teams in the nation. Instead, they find themselves with a 4-1 win-loss record.
One comes away with the feeling that Temple can match-up with any of the top teams In the nation.
In the first-half, Temple applied a pressure defense, forced turnovers, and and established a 34-29 half-time lead. Temple made 5 of it’s 7 steals in the first half. Maryland made but4-steals in the entire game. Maryland shot but 30 percent (4-13) on three’s.
Inexplicably, Mckie abandoned his pressure defense in the second-half and as a consequence, Maryland scored an astounding 47 points, including 18 points on three’s, shooting 46 percent (6-13) on three’s.
Temple should have scored far more points than it did. As Mckie allowed Rose scored only 9 points on 4-16 shooting from the floor, and he committed 4 of Temple’s 15 turnovers. Nate played 34 minutes scoring 0-points, shooting 0-7 from the floor. Both kept jacking-up shots even though they were missing them badly. They also drove to the hoop and we’re shut down by Maryland’s interior players which was foreseeable.
Rose and Nate combined in shooting 4-23 from the field. Here, temple almost beat one of nation’s best teams even with it’s most prolific shooters shooting so poorly. If any of Temple’s good shooters had taken some of the 19 missed shots, Temple would have easily beaten Maryland.
What Mckie should have encouraged Alani Moore to shoot more. As Alani in scored 22 points on 7-11 shooting, 2-2 from the foul-line. 18 of his points were three’s as he shot 6-10 on three’s. He should have taken far more three’s than he did as Alani is a far better shooter than either Rose or NPL.
Instead, McKie relied on Rose and NPL who we have see were are off big-time. Mckie should have told both to shoot far less when he saw they were off. Both Perry and Scott are better shooters and Mckie should have played both more.
James Scott played only 20-minutes and scored 8-points, as he shot 3-6 on two’s, 0-2 on three’s, 2-2 from the foul-line, and had 2-rebounds.
It also made no sense for Perry to play only 22 minutes and score only 6-points. He should have played more.
Maryland shot two’s at only 40 percent ( 6–15) in the first half when Temple applied it’s pressure defense, but 53 percent (8-15) in the second half, when Temple abandoned it’s pressure defense.
A pressure defense on the perimeter stopped the three ball in the first-half, but also reduced the opponents two-point shoot because Temp’s defense sped up and made Maryland players rush or take bad shots on 2’s and 3’s alike.
The television announcer pointed-out that Temple didn’t shoot enough three’s.
Rose should not have been distributing the ball as he committed 4 of Temple’s 15 turnovers.
Rose also committed 25 percent of all Temple fouls, as he committed 5 of Temple’s total. 20 fouls, resulting Maryland taking four more foul-shots then Temple did, and scored four more points there than Temple did.
McKie failed to heed the lesson from the from the La Salle’s game that Temple needed to pressure the perimeter in both halves. He only did so in the first-half playing Maryland. As a result, Temple lost a game they should have won.
Temple should have scored more than the 69-points they scored, and Maryland far less than the 76-points they scored.
Even though this was Temple’s first loss HC McKie needs to realize he needs to make some changes moving forward.
(This post was last modified: 10-10-2021 10:53 AM by Miggy.)
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