Rewatched the game (which was a mistake) and us not attacking the zone is baffling. I know it's not this simple and Forbes knows what he's doing, but IMHO if we put Jake at the top and Marsh/Dallas/Sy (before getting hurt) in the paint...we win that game. Not having Mucius hurt us here as well. Jake really should not have been trying to penetrate the zone dribbling around the perimeter. This also very much limited Alondes in terms of being able to drive/dish (plus the cheap fouls).
I also have no idea why we continued to settle for contested threes (we shot 32 of them last night...we shot 17 against ND who rolled out a similar zone).
Bottom line, we played like shit but that was also a poor game plan/lack of execution across the board. I am not at all opposed to putting in a zone against a team like Clemson. We were getting absolutely cooked on defense because our guards were way out of position and/or the help on swing passes was way too late which led to open threes and lots of points in transition.
Also, Carter looked really bad out there but he's 1% to blame for the loss (but like 90% to blame for the momentum shift late in the second half when we could have taken a lead). We should have and easily could have put that game away early and we shit the bed. Literally, everyone is to blame for that loss. I'm comforted by the fact that we haven't had that extent of a train wreck in a while. Beat UL and State and make some noise in the ACCT. We have a good team.