The No. 17 ranked Oregon Ducks beat visiting San Francisco 100-82 Sunday evening to improve to 4-0 on the season, but don’t think Oregon head coach Dana Altman was too pleased with his team’s performance.

Jason Calliste has been key on the defensive end for Oregon this season.

“Offensively I got a lot less concerns than I do defensively and on the boards,” said Altman.

The Ducks had six players in double-figures for scoring, the first time it had happened since Dec. 11, 2010 against Willamette, but the Ducks struggled once again protecting the rim by allowing 30 points in the paint, 11 second chance points, and 16 offensive rebounds.

In the first half the Ducks struggled to rebound the basketball on either end of the court, but most importantly under their own hoops. The Dons grabbed nine first-half offensive rebounds and converted them into nine second-chance points. Combine that with some miscommunication on the defensive end late in the first half and Oregon only led 40-35 despite holding the Dons to 31 percent shooting from the field.

“We are way out of position in a lot of plays,” said Altman. “The effort is there. We just aren’t in the right position, we aren’t communicating. We are playing hard, they are trying to get there. We just have a tremendous amount of work do, there is no other way to put it.”

Oregon had acknowledged in the days leading up to Sunday night, and then again after the game that with as many as seven new scholarship players improvement could come at a slower pace than normal.

“We’re not making the progress I had hoped, but we will,” Altman said. “Just fundamentally we have to get more sound, the communication on our defense has to really improve. We just have a lot of new guys and they aren't helping eachother out and not playing as a unit, and that's my job to get them to do that. RIght now I am not doing a very good job of that.”

At times on Sunday Oregon looked like a legit top 10 basketball team, but at other times they looked simply average.

“We are playing well in spurts right now,” said Mike Moser. “We are trying to make it a full half or a full 40 minutes. Right now we are just playing well in spurts, offensively and defensively.”

“We are definitely still working on it. I think we are starting to get it figured out. We just have to get more consistent.”

Altman stressed how important this coming week is, a week that includes three games in three nights, for the team’s overall success this season.

“This month is a big month for us. Hopefully getting Ben [Carter] and DA [Dominic Artis] who have played will help us,” said Altman. “This next weekend is a really big weekend for us. We got to make progress, we got to get better. These things got to come together during the game. We are doing a better job in practice, but we’ve got to do better in the game.”