In addition to his spotty perimeter shooting, we also saw that Starling is probably not really equipped to play as a true point guard when Mintz sat in the second half.
Taylor played a very confident game and it carried over from his willingness to shoot to other facets of his game. That drive for the left-handed lay-up and the soft underhanded lob for the McLeod alley-oop stick out as things that he probably felt good about doing because he was playing with confidence. He does a really good job squaring his shoulders to the rim when he gets threes on the move.
I appreciate that Cuffe plays in a manner that shows he knows he is a role player. Taking only open threes, a couple crashes of the offensive glass from the corner when the opportunity is there, does not try to do too much with the ball.
I don't know how they're going to figure out how to rein in Copeland.
The defense is very, very leaky. It is disappointing that players don't seem to know how they are supposed to work together better at this time. While there were some good things, confusion on switches seems to get them at the wrong times.
The zone needs to go away. When you only play it in one circumstance (baseline out of bounds in the offensive end), every opponent knows it is coming and it is easy to prepare for. Cornell made five threes in the first half and two of them were easily-created, wide-open looks against the zone.
