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Defense of Pac-10 Championship

How about just DEFENSE?

We gave up 82 points to a Wazzu team that was averaging 58.5 points a game for the season. Our defense allowed the Cougs to shoot a blistering 59% (53% 3-pt) compared to their season average of 43% (35% 3-pt). Hey you folks that were grumbling about our terrible offense - you happy about our 81 points today?

Give credit to coach Tony Bennett and fifth-year senior Taylor Rochestie. Coach Bennett seems to have figured out the Bruins defense and Rochestie scorched us for a career-high 33 points, playing all 40 minutes. Playing a lot of minutes doesn't seem to bother Rochestie as he averages 36 minutes a game, and scored 14 of Wazzu's last 15 points down the stretch.

Our team needs to get our focus back and get back to basics.

That's spelled: D-E-F-E-N-S-E.

The following video from the first half shows how poorly we defended against the Cougs, giving up 35 of 42 first-half points on essentially uncontested shots. I imagine CBH will be going over similar video with the team. If we are going to have a deep run in the tournament, we will have to get our defensive mojo back.

This is a FanPost and does not necessarily reflect the views of BruinsNation's (BN) editors. It does reflect the views of this particular fan though, which is as important as the views of BN's editors.

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