The defensive effort is flat out horrendous. I've never seen a team play man to man as loosely as they do. There is no fighting through screens. It half way looks like a match up zone there is so little movement. Half the defenders don't leave the paint. Then we can't get a rebound. Pitiful. Just pitiful.
Having Pearl on the floor in the closing minutes shows me where Coach Pearl's priorities are. You are fighting for a win against a team worse than the UNNC team they already lost to, and Steve is out there as a complete liability. On TV they showed the UTM coach yelling during UTM's free throws to foul 22. If they had taken his coaching, I fully expected Pearl to toe the line and fire a granny shot.