re: What happened to the up tempo offense

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uptempo would not have worked, because that means giving State offense more opportunities. We needed to control the clock and we were effective till the fourth quarter when it sort of unraveled

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This is conventional thinking, but when you don’t execute at a slower pace it just doesn’t work. Look at the disparity in TOP in this game and tell me how well the offensive pace worked for us? How would using tempo and maybe sustaining a couple of additional drives and scoring more points have been worse if we weren’t possessing the ball effectively playing slower?