I give a lot of credit to the Memphis coaching staff and the players for acknowledging that the Saturday victory over Manhattan was not quite the crisp performance they were looking for.

In fairness, it’s sometimes difficult to look good against a struggling team like Manhattan because the game gets pretty mucked up in the second half after the lead goes to 20 or 25. But you certainly don’t want bad habits to develop in a game where mistakes didn’t really have any consequence on the outcome.
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