What was problem in Fresno?

I'm always a bit lost on the X's and O's of basketball having never played organized BB, but only having played intramural or rec center/ward building type.



I can't put my finger on exactly why BYU had so many turnovers. Mark Durant, on the KSL broadcast, noted something about BYU not being used to something that FSU was doing, and that they would get adjusted and then it would not be a problem. I didn't remember what that adjustment was, as I just took his word for it and although I didn't understand what he had said, I was confident they'd do what he said. It was horribly painful, as a fan, to watch BYU turn the ball over as many times as they did. It's like they couldn't figure out something and never really did.



My one worry was that it was the height of FSU. It was noted by KSL that BYU was not used to, this season, of playing teams that had 3 starters at 6'10 plus. BYU's experience was with teams that had stronger guard lines that FSU was thought to have. Was that it? If a team goes big we're more vulnerable? As noted, FSU doesn't have 21 turnovers and we could potentially have lost the game. We came through, but did they expose an achilles heel and what exactly is it?



I'm counting on those that have more understanding of BB's ball offensive/defensive strategy (and especially BYU's staff), to be able to evaluate what went wrong to have a team only have 6 turnovers versus ASU to having 15 versus FSU. I don't think FSU was that much more athletic to have caused that difference and therefore I apparently need to look elsewhere for my understanding.

FSU's full court press was certainly a problem. They were big and physical, I believe a few of the turnovers came from not even being able to get the ball inbounds cleanly. I believe they had four people down on our end on the inbounds ball, it was a beast. Also, some times the players just got sloppy, we'd get a turnover only to go down and turn it over back again. Those were the only two things I noticed in the turnover department.

ABYUFAN wrote:
FSU's full court press was certainly a problem. They were big and physical, I believe a few of the turnovers came from not even being able to get the ball inbounds cleanly. I believe they had four people down on our end on the inbounds ball, it was a beast. Also, some times the players just got sloppy, we'd get a turnover only to go down and turn it over back again. Those were the only two things I noticed in the turnover department.

We also struggled a lot against their 2-3 Zone in the first half. We needed some one to make a jumper at free throw and to make the cut at the right time. At first we didn't make the right cuts and once JT came he just couldn't hit that shot.



We also struggled a little with their speed quickness. They put a lot of pressure on us.