Scouting report for No. 9 Arizona's game at Oregon State: series history, players to watch, Jack Murphy's insights on the Beavers and more.
F Azuolas Tubelis F Michael Rataj How they match upThe series: Arizona leads the Beavers 70-22 and has won the last five games in the series, beating OSU twice during its Elite Eight season of 2020-21. OSU has won two of the past seven games in Corvallis and took the then-No. 14 Wildcats to overtime at Gill Coliseum in 2017-18.
On the other end of the floor, Akanno and Taylor have a knack for getting to the basket — or the foul line — to led the Beavers offensively. In conference play, Akanno averages 12.8 points and draws 4.4 fouls per 40 minutes while Taylor averages 9.2 points and draws 5.5 fouls per 40. He said it “Defensively they're gonna play a lot of different types of zone and man. They're gonna pick up full court. They're gonna pick up in the half court. You have to be ready to adjust on the fly and just play with confidence and pace.
“Taylor is really talented and one of the best in the country drawing fouls. He drives and puts pressure on the defense. Certainly he can make the 3, but he knows what he's really good at, and that's driving to the basket, attacking the rim and getting fouled, going to the free-throw line. Although Lloyd went on to say the UA tennis coaches are actually the best, he added that “they should be” considering the similarities between pickleball and tennis.
“Teams are kind of picking their poison sometimes. They're playing off him when he catches the ball in the high post and because he's probably not going to be a great driver or anything like that, they're thinking, 'We'll sag on Oumar and we'll sandwich Tubelis — we’ll play behind and in front of him so that takes away the high-low game.’
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