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The bench defense was terrible early in the season.


Over his career young has valued defense and if you can’t play the team defense you aren’t going to play alot.

He has a lot of guys that can score and many of them go through Cold spells. But if you can’t play defense you don’t get the minutes.

In my opinion the difference from the 2-7 days to now is the bench guys really improved on the defensive and and weren’t liabilities anymore. That’s led to a much better minute distribution and more rest for the starters too.

Pedulla is the best example. He has really improved on d. If you watch some of the early games he was struggling. He’s going to be a great defensive player and it’s clear he has been well coached this season. I think many folks before the season thought the bench was a big improvement year over year but it took over 1/2 the season for those guys to get where they needed to be to be able to rest the starters more.

The best part of this team is they didn’t collapse and shut down after the 2-7 run. Many of the fans did. But the team and staff did not.


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Posted: 03/11/2022 at 08:33AM


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