SWC75
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- It’s been a few years since we had a loss like this: a chance to win right into our hands, a bad mistake and suddenly the other teams has won. (I’m thinking the 12/20/ 14 game at Villanova, which we lost in OT 77-82: I remember a couple of bad turnovers in the final seconds.)
- And it came at a critical time, when we needed to win there last two games and didn’t. Now we play Virginia and Florida State on the road and are looking it 12-4, 1-4 before we come back home. The schedule is back-loaded with tonight games so we need to build up our record now. Instead we are spoiling it.
- What happened to our rebounding? We’d out-rebounded everybody through 14 games. Then, in these last two games, two losses by a total of 8 points, we got out-rebounded by 56-80. One possible reason is that the other team’s big guys are physically stronger than our string-beans and their height and reach aren’t enough. That’s not going to change.
- Another possible reason was brought up by SU color man Jimmy Satalin: because we are no threat to fast break, Notre Dame could send five guys to the boards. Their guards had 11 rebounds between them. Ours had 6.
- What happened to our “take it to the hole” game? We were 10 for 28 on two point shots and only got the line 6 times.
- The definition of an ugly game: the two teams had 18 assists and 27 turnovers. Our point guard, Frank Howard, was 4 and 4. He’s now 93 and 68 for the season, a ratio of 1.4-1. You want at least 2-1.
- Ohsae Brissett had 10 rebounds in the first half, one in the second. He was 3 for 15 from the field and all three were three pointers. He was 0 for 8 on two point shots and only got to the line twice. In his previous six games he’d been averaging 10 free throw attempts per game. He just seemed tentative and uncertain of what he wanted to do.
- Paschal Chuwku, 7-2, had 3 rebounds in 29 minutes, all in the first half.
- Matthew Moyer had an assist and a foul in 8 minutes and sat on the bench the rest of the game. His replacement, Marek Dolezaj had 2 rebounds in 32 minutes.
- Satalin said throughout this game and the last one that the team just seemed to lack energy and thei body language was bad.
- Accurater told me before the Wake game that this team is fun to root for. Are we still having fun?
- And it came at a critical time, when we needed to win there last two games and didn’t. Now we play Virginia and Florida State on the road and are looking it 12-4, 1-4 before we come back home. The schedule is back-loaded with tonight games so we need to build up our record now. Instead we are spoiling it.
- What happened to our rebounding? We’d out-rebounded everybody through 14 games. Then, in these last two games, two losses by a total of 8 points, we got out-rebounded by 56-80. One possible reason is that the other team’s big guys are physically stronger than our string-beans and their height and reach aren’t enough. That’s not going to change.
- Another possible reason was brought up by SU color man Jimmy Satalin: because we are no threat to fast break, Notre Dame could send five guys to the boards. Their guards had 11 rebounds between them. Ours had 6.
- What happened to our “take it to the hole” game? We were 10 for 28 on two point shots and only got the line 6 times.
- The definition of an ugly game: the two teams had 18 assists and 27 turnovers. Our point guard, Frank Howard, was 4 and 4. He’s now 93 and 68 for the season, a ratio of 1.4-1. You want at least 2-1.
- Ohsae Brissett had 10 rebounds in the first half, one in the second. He was 3 for 15 from the field and all three were three pointers. He was 0 for 8 on two point shots and only got to the line twice. In his previous six games he’d been averaging 10 free throw attempts per game. He just seemed tentative and uncertain of what he wanted to do.
- Paschal Chuwku, 7-2, had 3 rebounds in 29 minutes, all in the first half.
- Matthew Moyer had an assist and a foul in 8 minutes and sat on the bench the rest of the game. His replacement, Marek Dolezaj had 2 rebounds in 32 minutes.
- Satalin said throughout this game and the last one that the team just seemed to lack energy and thei body language was bad.
- Accurater told me before the Wake game that this team is fun to root for. Are we still having fun?
