Colorado Buffaloes look to correct glut of defensive fouls before visit from Eastern Washington

It was only the first impression Yet one aspect of it surely drew certain ire from head coach Tad Boyle in the film room The defense for the Colorado men s basketball club was a long way from midseason form during a season-opening win against Montana State Not only did the Bobcats shoot at least in both halves in the first in the second and overall but the new-look Buffs took too a great number of fouls as well CU committed fouls but was able to offset particular of those miscues by drawing fouls from the Bobcats That allowed the Buffs to finish with free throw attempts against just for the Bobcats Still that total exceeded the average of last year s CU band that finished last in the Big and it led to a little foul trouble in the front court while CU played without freshman forward Alon Michaeli who was sidelined by an ankle injury Freshman wing Jalin Holland committed four fouls in just -plus minutes and second-year guard Felix Kossaras also finished with four fouls While Michaeli could make his debut when the Buffs host Eastern Washington on Saturday p m ESPN Boyle has made playing more disciplined defense one of the priorities of the week We ve got to play with discipline Boyle declared We re undisciplined defenders right now We re leaving our feet We re reaching at the end of drives We re just not disciplined You ve got to be a disciplined defender to play aggressively play with potency but play without fouling Our guys on offense were complaining about fouls and at practice But we re fouling too much We ve got to be better I stated you two weeks ago four out of Still a four out of A club shoots in your own building yeah Alumni corner A sparse up-to-date former Buffs made their debuts with their new teams earlier this week Former four-year Buffs guard Javon Ruffin played minutes off the bench in his debut at Bowling Green and enjoyed a solid shooting performance going -for- overall -for- on -pointers and -for- at the free-throw line before finishing with points and three steals Assane Diop drew a starting assignment in his first meeting for San Diego In a busy minutes Diop went -for- with six points eight rebounds four assists and three turnovers Former CU guard RJ Smith came off the bench in his first event at DePaul going -for- with two points in minutes in a win against Chicago State And Harrison Carrington who received a scholarship last year at CU after joining the undertaking as a walk-on played minutes off the bench in his debut at UC Irvine going -for- with points and seven rebounds in a rout of Bethesda Notable The matchup at CU will be the third of four consecutive road games to start the season for Eastern Washington The Eagles opened the season with a six-point loss at No UCLA before suffering an eight-point loss Wednesday One of CU s Big rivals already suffered a notable injury setback as TCU lost starting -foot- forward Malick Diallo to a torn ACL during a narrow season-opening win against New Orleans The Buffs had lost seven consecutive games when shooting less than at the free-throw line before defeating Montana State with a mark -for-