SWC75
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- The anthem singers keep asking if Oshae can see. It’s a good question. He was 5 for 18 tonight, including 0 for 5 from three point range and 3 missed free throws. He’s shooting 32% from the field for the season, 25% from three point range and 65.5% from the free throw line. Imagine the player he could be if he could see the basket.
- From about 8 minutes into the game, Tyus Battle was feeling his back when there was lull in the action and when out of the game, he stood rather than sit, apparently because that caused less pain or kept his back loose. It’s still November.
- Matthew Moyer started but played only 9 minutes and accumulated 2 stats: he missed a shot and he committed a foul.
- Geno Thorpe played 4 minutes and his stats were a missed shot and two bad turnovers which were back-to-back when JB first gave Battle a rest but had to send him back in because Thorpe was stinking the joint up so badly.
- We are a good defensive teams but gave up to many open threes, (some of them, at least, we from way out). It wasn’t because we “just circled the wagons and hoped they missed”. Maryland did a good job of getting the ball into the high post, the real key to attacking a zone), and we collapsed in to deal with that guy, who used his positon to feed the ball back out for open threes. We need to make the high post man prove he could hurt us from there before we abandoned the outside against a good shooting team.
- Maryland has a reputation from turning the ball over and they did so 18 times in this game, including the one and only time we used the press. It would have been interesting to see what havoc we could have wrought had we used the press more often, as we seemed poised to do in the first few games. .
- In listening to 41 years of post-game interviews and press conferences I have never heard Jim Boeheim express regret that he wasn’t able to recruit a player on the other team until tonight. He may have felt that way sometimes but he never felt moved to say it until now. Kevin Huerter is from Shenendehowa High School in the Albany area and he’s exactly what we lack this year: a dead-eye shooter. (Last year all we had was shooters and we didn’t have much else, now it’s the one thing we lack). Huerter was 7 for 9 from the behind the arc tonight, (sometimes way behind) and his 85 footer at the buzzer looked scary most of the way. Meanwhile SU’s anvil chorus went 3 for 18. If Huerter had come here, as he wanted to do, tonight’s game would have been a blow-out win for SU. But the NCAA sanctions hit when JB was recruiting him and we suddenly didn’t have a scholarship for him and JB is pissed about it.
- From about 8 minutes into the game, Tyus Battle was feeling his back when there was lull in the action and when out of the game, he stood rather than sit, apparently because that caused less pain or kept his back loose. It’s still November.
- Matthew Moyer started but played only 9 minutes and accumulated 2 stats: he missed a shot and he committed a foul.
- Geno Thorpe played 4 minutes and his stats were a missed shot and two bad turnovers which were back-to-back when JB first gave Battle a rest but had to send him back in because Thorpe was stinking the joint up so badly.
- We are a good defensive teams but gave up to many open threes, (some of them, at least, we from way out). It wasn’t because we “just circled the wagons and hoped they missed”. Maryland did a good job of getting the ball into the high post, the real key to attacking a zone), and we collapsed in to deal with that guy, who used his positon to feed the ball back out for open threes. We need to make the high post man prove he could hurt us from there before we abandoned the outside against a good shooting team.
- Maryland has a reputation from turning the ball over and they did so 18 times in this game, including the one and only time we used the press. It would have been interesting to see what havoc we could have wrought had we used the press more often, as we seemed poised to do in the first few games. .
- In listening to 41 years of post-game interviews and press conferences I have never heard Jim Boeheim express regret that he wasn’t able to recruit a player on the other team until tonight. He may have felt that way sometimes but he never felt moved to say it until now. Kevin Huerter is from Shenendehowa High School in the Albany area and he’s exactly what we lack this year: a dead-eye shooter. (Last year all we had was shooters and we didn’t have much else, now it’s the one thing we lack). Huerter was 7 for 9 from the behind the arc tonight, (sometimes way behind) and his 85 footer at the buzzer looked scary most of the way. Meanwhile SU’s anvil chorus went 3 for 18. If Huerter had come here, as he wanted to do, tonight’s game would have been a blow-out win for SU. But the NCAA sanctions hit when JB was recruiting him and we suddenly didn’t have a scholarship for him and JB is pissed about it.
