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<blockquote data-quote="altgeld88" data-source="post: 1977020" data-attributes="member: 2886"><p>That it's Dec. 10 and we're having this conversation makes me feel good about where this team is heading. Many seasons the team doesn't learn to play tenacious D, the key to the tournament, until well into January. That some are wringing their hands about whether the team is playing lockdown D for 40 mins against the No. 2 D in the nation on the road on Dec. 9th doesn't exactly make me despair.</p><p></p><p>I distinctly recall in mid-Dec. 2020 trying to talk posters in the postgame thread off the ledge after a close loss at the RAC, noting that the team (yielding 91 pts to Rutgers) wasn't playing solid D yet. The guys lost to MD and OSU in early/mid-January and then, having learned to defend for 40, the remainder of the season went fairly well for them. They won 14 of their final 15 games through the BTT title game, losing only to MSU on the road (where Sissoko broke Ayo's nose.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="altgeld88, post: 1977020, member: 2886"] That it's Dec. 10 and we're having this conversation makes me feel good about where this team is heading. Many seasons the team doesn't learn to play tenacious D, the key to the tournament, until well into January. That some are wringing their hands about whether the team is playing lockdown D for 40 mins against the No. 2 D in the nation on the road on Dec. 9th doesn't exactly make me despair. I distinctly recall in mid-Dec. 2020 trying to talk posters in the postgame thread off the ledge after a close loss at the RAC, noting that the team (yielding 91 pts to Rutgers) wasn't playing solid D yet. The guys lost to MD and OSU in early/mid-January and then, having learned to defend for 40, the remainder of the season went fairly well for them. They won 14 of their final 15 games through the BTT title game, losing only to MSU on the road (where Sissoko broke Ayo's nose.) [/QUOTE]
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