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That was painful to watch. I still and probably always will question Turgeons in game coaching ability acumen and feel. 
 

Why didn’t Morsell get more minutes? He only played 22 and was really the only Terp that played with energy and enthusiasm outside of Scott. 
 

Why did it take so long to initiate a press of some sort and push the tempo a bit in order to help move the game flow in our favor?

Anyhow, Turge is just so slow to react and make appropriate in game changes when things aren’t going well.  I don’t understand it.  This team will be lucky to finish .500 in conference and is very fringe/bubble for the NCAA tourney. 

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Tremendous win on the road at Wisconsin. Contributions from everyone. Donta Scott came up clutch af. Wiggins and Ayala made some huge shots, hopefully they can step their game up the rest of the year. Ayala handled the ball well. And the defense was really top notch all night. Marial showed some moves in the few minutes he was in there. 

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3 hours ago, Oriole4Life said:

Tremendous win on the road at Wisconsin. Contributions from everyone. Donta Scott came up clutch af. Wiggins and Ayala made some huge shots, hopefully they can step their game up the rest of the year. Ayala handled the ball well. And the defense was really top notch all night. Marial showed some moves in the few minutes he was in there. 

You know, I feel like the 2020 team has the best grasp of the offense of any team that I can remember in the Turgeon era.  It's really unfortunate that Turgeon gets the team to play like this the year he doesn't really have the top-end talent on the team to compete.  The season's young but I think the team has been more fun to watch than in recent years, despite having better talent and better results in years past.

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