Although taped and wrapped, Arizona's Oumar Ballo and Kerr Kriisa say they're good to go for the NCAA Tournament; all the Wildcats will need to be on point vs. Princeton's free-flowing offense.
Bruce Pascoe SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Broken hand and all, Arizona center Oumar Ballo says he’s definitely playing. And guard Kerr Kriisa, though still wearing a red wrap around his cut-up right hand, says his shoulder is better at least.For the Wildcats and their tight seven-man rotation, that’s good news. Good upper-body news.
“We have to be prepared for cuts,” Henderson warned Wednesday about Princeton. “They run a well-run offense. We have to be solid.” Pah-dum. After his podium interview ended, Lloyd ran the Wildcats through a public shooting session at Golden 1 Center, taking a brief break to chat with a few Tucson-based reporters sitting on the sidelines.True enough. But the truth is that what the Tigers run now is something of a modern-day Princeton Offense. The Tigers don’t run at a plodding pace, ranking slightly above average in adjusted tempo, and they rank just 240th nationally in the ratio of assists to made field goals .
UA assistant coach Steve Robinson has been in a unique position this week, scouting the Tigers while also having the historical knowledge of playing against them regularly as a Cornell assistant for two seasons in the mid-1980s.“They have that kind of movement, they will have some backdoor cuts, they'll do what Princeton does,” Robinson said. “They play probably a little faster than Princeton back in the '80s did. But you see the layers that they have still built into how they play.
“It wasn’t swelled up or big, anything like that,” Ballo said. “It was just a little bit of pain. But I’ll be fine.”
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