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USC Trojans coach Eric Musselman discusses USC Trojans discuss their offensive scheme. Musselman talks about the trojans offensive plans by playing zone, and he admits their offense was not playing good but he also talks about how their second half defense had breakdowns.
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00:01Coach, all that aside, and I agree, you know,
00:03officiating is hard to deal with sometimes.
00:06What is the offensive schematics,
00:08the scheme that's going on when you have one guy at the top?
00:10It seems like it's just dribbling the ball out,
00:12guy standing around.
00:14Yeah, I mean, they played a zone,
00:16and I think sometimes zone can force you to stand around.
00:20I didn't think it was, I mean, our offense, was it good?
00:23Obviously, no.
00:26But I thought our second half defense,
00:28there was just too many breakdowns at times.
00:32You know, and we certainly need Elijah to shoot better than four for 14.
00:36I mean, if it's not his night,
00:38we're going to need him to draw free throws or, you know,
00:41take what the defense gives and move it up.
00:44But that's, you know, it's, what, his fifth or sixth college game,
00:47and he's still in the learning process for sure.
00:52Chad, obviously, you know, had a big game in his return.
00:55You know, I had a couple of stretches where he was really on fire.
00:58How did you just sort of manage his minutes with the foul trouble
01:01and also just coming back from such a long time off?
01:03Yeah, I mean, his foul trouble kind of managed his minutes for us, you know.
01:09I mean, I was going to put him in like at the 12-minute mark,
01:12and then thought maybe because we had a lead, you know, maybe 10 made sense.
01:17And then when he fouled out, you know, especially because he's such a great foul shooter,
01:21took away some options for what we could do late game.
01:26And, you know, he fouled out against Northwestern, fouled out tonight.
01:29And, you know, he's super important to us from an offensive standpoint especially.
01:35You
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