Things discussed:

• Citrus Bowl matchup: how much is Alabama showing up? Full bore not feeling great.
• Bama defense has been somewhat vulnerable this year.
• Sam: converted to the church of offense (we are not affiliated with this church).
• Age of offense: part of that is rules—pick plays, going downfield on RPOs make it too easy for elite defenses to pick on even the best defenses.
• This year who has an elite shutdown defense?

Basketball things:

• Can't be too surprised when you're 3/18 from three. Couldn't really execute their defensive gameplan.
• Credit to Illinois: played well. Cockburn hit his first 6 free throws: c'mon!
• Juwan flubbed the substitution pattern some: Castleton shouldn't be out there when Cockburn is.
• Illinois on the boards: that's what they do, but 41% of their misses is too much.
• What we do is shoot, and Franz wasn't making them. Give him time, but Johns deserves some minutes.
• Relearn the lessons about letting bigs get under the basket on transition.
• Michigan's blocks are going back to the opponent. Stop blocking balls back into the hands of the opponent for easy buckets.
• Like Juwan's plan against zone—this used to fritz out Beilein
• Craig: not blaming the refs, but also not sad it was Lewis Garrison who got clocked.
• Oregon: learned about them in Bahamas; they almost got past Gonzaga. UNC isn't that good.

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