![]() ![]() Everybody knows we have great guards and a great offense, but we have to guard the ball well." "In the first half, we were connected, playing fast, getting to the rim, making shots. "We were getting blown by and not helping each other and being connected," said George, who hit five 3-pointers and scored 20 points for his 11 th 20-point game of the season, the most by a Baylor freshman in 21 years. Teams saw that, we saw that, and we'll get better."īaylor had a double-digit halftime lead at Kansas, but lost it in the first six minutes of the second half and fell for the 20 th time in 21 trips to Lawrence. We got back several times and we had no communication. Then, our communication skills with our effort to get back. If you take care of the ball and make shots, that helps with that. You turn it over, you take bad shots, you're going to be in transition defense. "I think transition defense is always transition defense, it doesn't matter what you're doing there," Drew said. The same transition defense issues Baylor had in that game showed up again in Saturday's 87-71 loss at Kansas, when the Jayhawks scored 55 second-half points, scored 14 fast-break points and added 13 points off the Bears' 11 turnovers. And I know Keyontae's somebody you have to have a lot of respect for what he's overcome. "I learned Nowell can shoot from the jump ball circle in the Ferrell Center. "Honestly, we learned nothing (about Nowell and Johnson), because we know how good both of them were, and we saw how good both of them were playing," Drew said. The Bears had five players in double figures in the first matchup, led by Adam Flagler and Keyonte George with 23 and 22 points, respectfully, while Markquis Nowell had 32 points and Keyontae Jonson 24 for K-State. Longtime Baylor assistant Jerome Tang won the first head-to-head meeting with his former boss when the Wildcats pulled out a 97-95 overtime win over Scott Drew's Baylor Bears on Jan. Tuesday at Bramlage Coliseum in Manhattan, Kan. Having already avenged one of its three losses in opening league play at 0-3, ninth-ranked Baylor (20-7, 9-5) will get a chance to split another series when the Bears play 14 th-ranked Kansas State (20-7, 8-6) at 6 p.m. Head Coach: Jerome Tang (Charter Oak State College - 2007) LISTEN: Learfield/ ESPN 1660 AM / 92.3 FM in Central Texas and on the Varsity Network App.ġ4/16 KANSAS STATE WILDCATS (20-7, 8-6 Big 12) ![]() Talent: Rich Hollenberg (pxp), Fran Fraschilla (analyst)
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |