I was pleased with how Moser handled the playing time this week. Kept Moore on the bench Wednesday when the team was playing better without him, stuck with Luke when Sam and Wague were nonfactors, realized that Dayton shouldn’t play the past two games, played Taylor big minutes (which he earned), and worked Goodine in as he came back from missing three weeks.
I have no idea what this means going forward. It’s obviously a much bigger deal than winning the smaller, less prestigious tourneys we won the past two seasons. I really hope the teams we beat have good seasons, but I’m not sure Providence is very good and Arizona and Louisville could go either way. I think there are probably seven or eight teams in the SEC who are better than the teams we just beat, so we really need to improve the rebounding and start getting something from Sam and Wague. We shot the three very well the last two games, and were great from the FT line. There will be games those things don’t happen, and those are the kinds of games where we will really struggle against conference teams if we don’t shore up the rebounding and lack of production from the guys who were expected to be our two main centers.
I hope there is no letdown Tuesday. Georgia Tech isn’t great but they are good enough to beat us if we aren’t sharp. We have struggled so badly to win home games when the fan base is ready to jump on the bandwagon, so we need to maintain this momentum.