PaddyWF
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This post pretty much nails it. When ND wasn't hitting their open shots they were hitting contested ones. After watching them brick open shot after open shot against other teams it's frustrating to see, but maybe that's just the kind of confidence we inspire in other teams since these outlier performances seem to keep finding us as the punching bag.
We pretty much knew Beachem and Vasturia were going to hurt us last night. We lost Farrell too many times... But man did Bonzie just torch us. 10/16 and 2/2 from deep? He averages .5 threes per game at 33%. He made 4 more buckets than his average. I mean, we lost the Collins/Bonzie matchup by 3 points - we scored enough that we could have survived anything but that. If there's any positive to take away from last night it could be that NBA scouts watched a 6'5" guy almost hang 30 on Collins... They played 33 and 36 minutes respectively, and Collins was lost all night on the screens and switches. I realize he had a double double, but 24 points on 20 shots vs. 27 points on 16 shots (and -4 in the block column)... I didn't see that coming.
Childress and Wilbekin could have made the difference off the bench since ND has no depth, but they chipped in for 0% shooting and zero field goals on 9 shots. Arians/Crawford/Woods/Dinos vs Beachem/Farrell/Vasturia/Fleuger was just -4 for us. We were supposed to have an advantage with depth and with Collins, but we were minus with them as well.
Yeah I definitely did not think this was a possibility. Dude should definitely be 1st team ACC and maybe POY if ND finished strong, he absolutely had his way last night as was crafty as hell.