Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
Wright State topped 90 points for the sixth time this season, shot 57.6% from the field, tied their season high in 3-pointers with 12 and had almost as many steals (6) as turnovers (7).
What’s not to like, right?
Well, anyone who’s been around coach Scott Nagy knows the emphasis he puts on defense, and he couldn’t have been happy with the lapses in that phase during a 98-86 win over Detroit on Thursday. The Raiders gave up more than 50 points in the second half for the second straight game, and it was the sixth time they’ve allowed 80 or more points this season.
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But Nagy, mindful of his team’s sparkling 20-5 record and 10-2 mark in the Horizon League, tempered his criticism. For a while, anyway.
“The players feel it after the game. They know the things that bother me,” he said. “I just tried to tell them: ‘We’re 20-5. It’s a hard deal to win this many games, and you guys are doing a great job. When we win and we don’t win exactly the way we want, we’re not going to complain about that.’”
After accentuating the positive for a bit, though, Nagy wanted to make it clear he’s not comfortable riding his team’s potent offense to victory.
