So frustrating when they turn the ball over like they did in the first half last night. 12 missed free throws was pretty brutal, too. Take care of the ball a little better and sink some more free throws and this is a 30 point blowout.
I think the turnovers are the sign of a young team. Marshall was trapping the ball handler and overplaying the passing lanes. This left the drive wide open most times. It also left them susceptible to the ball fake and back door cut. We didn't do any of that in the first half and didn't seem to have much recognition of what they were doing. We kept trying to make the obvious next pass which made it easy to defend. That and for the first 15 minutes they had a much higher energy level than we did. Simmons' penetration in the 2nd half changed all that. In addition, the Herd started to get fatigued because the way they play expends a ton of energy.
Marshall might be interesting in a couple of years. If D'Antoni can get some really good shooters in there they could become tough to play because the system creates a lot of open shots.