The players and Coach Beard blew it against KSU… with the foul situation our guards needed to turn into the paint hard off screens and draw fouls, not stop in the key and pass backwards… KSU was screening well in the paint on offense and their short guards were getting uncontested layups … their leading scorer needed to be denied the ball or doubleteamed occasionally to make things more difficult. We got lax and overdribbled a lot in the second half. AJ played junior high level defense and got lazy (stood around for the 3) after showing a little life early in the game. All the “seasoned” Shaka realm holdovers played like overwhelmed freshman. For reasons unknown (maybe with intent to matchup better with KSU?) Beard had Disu and Mitchell riding the bench when their presence in the paint might’ve helped on both ends. Ugly offensive spacing and lack of crunch time plan, pace, adjustments and poise coupled with poor inside defense and some odd situational line-ups resulted in close loss. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk