The defense in general -- but especially the job on Carlino. The Cats absolutely smothered that dude and he's going to see Villanova jerseys in his sleep for the next month. That was an impressive team defensive effort.
One thing I noticed is that whoever was guarding the guy screening for Carlino off the ball was jumping out on Carlino (instead of Carlino's man just fighting through screens) and leaving the screener (usually Fischer) wide open near the basket. It took a while for Marquette to adjust to this and they missed a lot of opportunities and then had a bunch of bad passes/turnovers when they first tried throwing it to the open screener. Eventually they got some easy buckets this way later in the game.
I found this interesting just because we usually don't defend this way. We'd usually just have whoever is guarding Carlino fight through an off-the-ball screen. Interesting game plan that really worked well.
One thing I noticed is that whoever was guarding the guy screening for Carlino off the ball was jumping out on Carlino (instead of Carlino's man just fighting through screens) and leaving the screener (usually Fischer) wide open near the basket. It took a while for Marquette to adjust to this and they missed a lot of opportunities and then had a bunch of bad passes/turnovers when they first tried throwing it to the open screener. Eventually they got some easy buckets this way later in the game.
I found this interesting just because we usually don't defend this way. We'd usually just have whoever is guarding Carlino fight through an off-the-ball screen. Interesting game plan that really worked well.
