Reviewing a tough loss

Last night against Idaho we could not hit the broad side of a barn. Our shooting was horrendous. I suppose it will come around in time. I hope. It was one of those nights when everyone was cold at the same time. That sometimes happens. Often our defense is good enough to bail us out when we go cold, but that was not the case last night. We are going to have to be tougher on offense. "Soft" teams settle for the perimeter shot; tough teams make good things happen in other ways.

Our rebounding was good, especially Lis Shoshi, who had a career night with 16 boards. That was good to see, because Lis' board work was OK last season, but not outstanding. A  few more nights like this one and he will be a sterling rebounder.

Marcus Johnson may need to be more selective with his shots until he begins to heat up. And he will. But he is also very good at getting to the line, and he may have to do more of his scoring that way. It is obvious that either something is mechanically off on his shot, or he is not mentally handling the switching back to point guard along with the burden of being the primary scorer. On the other hand, Kemy Osse has been hot as a fire poker from 3-point land at 11 for 22. He needs to be shooting more, I would say.

One  thing I do like is that we kept our turnovers down to ten. And Johnson's A/TO is at 2.25 for the season, which is very solid.