SoonerScoop Sights & Sounds: OU 73, NW State 57
OU basketball needed to figure things out. Down a couple of shooters and surprisingly down six points at halftime, the Sooners did just that.
It was senior Jalon Moore who started it all and everybody else came with him. Never came easy, but a hard-fought 73-57 victory against visiting Northwestern State on Monday.
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It’s time for the SoonerScoop Sights & Sounds with video editor Eddie Radosevich.
Head coach Porter Moser
“Two things: I thought we didn’t—the last four, five minutes of the half, I think they scored 10 straight down the stretch into halftime; defensively, we just had some lapses. But offensively, especially away from our bench, early on with our guards, getting us into stuff. We were pushing it, then we weren’t flowing into much. In front of our bench, we were flowing into a lot better stuff. We were going downhill. We had better offensive possessions. I thought we were way more aggressive going downhill. I thought we were going a little bit side to side in the first half. You know? Just up-down, sideline, side-to-side.
“Right out of the gate, first play of the half, we were talking about some things, some actions we do to get us going downhill: Get to the paint, go downhill. Duke got to the rim. Jalon Moore got to the rim. Fears got to the rim. We were getting downhill a lot more, being aggressive. I thought that was some of the things we were doing with ball-screens. But when we have drought scoring, we’re going to have—especially with Brycen and Jadon out. Those are two weapons that can really quick-triggers threes. We’ve got to defense and rebound. In the second half, I thought we defended and rebounded. We gave up six offensive rebounds to a team we watched get 14 the other night. Forced 20 turnovers. We only had nine ourselves. We did a lot of things we can hang our hat on.”
