Several players have elevated their games at just the right time of the season, with Nevada, Boise State and Utah State looming over the next nine days
There are statistics and metrics that illustrate the improvement of San Diego State’s basketball team as it
Coach Brian Dutcher, instead, will take you to the film room and show you the opening play of the second half Saturday night against San Jose State, a largely meaningless possession in a 19-point game while fans are still settling in their seats after a trip to the concession stands.The Aztecs set up to run their lob play for Keshad Johnson, which Dutcher first developed 30 years ago while an assistant at Michigan.
“We’re playing together more,” Dutcher said. “We’re getting to our second option. We run a play and they take away the first option, and then we’re flowing into the second thing. We got Nate a dunk on the same play where we usually get Keshad a dunk. That shows we have the ability to get to our secondary options on some of our sets, and that makes us really hard to guard.”
Media that votes in the AP poll rewarded the Aztecs this week by returning them to the top 25 after a two-week hiatus. They spent the first five weeks ranked, rising as high as 17That says less about the Aztecs, who have no bad losses, than the turbulence jostling the upper echelons of Division I. Thirteen members of last week’s top 25 lost, including a staggering 10 teams ranked between Nos. 8 and 20.
LeDee is among several players who have elevated their games, averaging 7.0 points and 5.0 points off the bench over the last two weeks while shooting 63.2 percent with only one turnover. So has Butler, who is averaging 12.8 points and shooting 42.9 percent behind the 3-point arc over his last eight games after 8.2 and 30.3 percent over the first 13.
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