UNLV coach Marvin Menzies came away from Tuesday’s 96-80 exhibition victory over Dakota Wesleyan believing his basketball team had taken a step back on defense.
Watching video only confirmed that belief.
“My instincts were pretty dead on in terms of our lack of attention to detail defensively, especially from a fundamental execution standpoint,” Menzies said. “It was basically stance off the ball, basic things like jumping to the ball, foot placement and a host of other things that we do in our defensive shell where we teach our fundamentals. There was just a lot of game slippage with it.