Griffins block

[dasher]

Had to listen to SJU fans claim it was a travel all weekend.

a UConn fan friend of mine called me to tell me that.

 

[dasher]

thats a happy Griffin! Love to see it

Kids look like they resent the playing time Buddy is getting.

 

[JustPherU]

I cant believe Marek on that play. What are you doing driving to the hoop with 10 seconds left on the clock. Hold for the last shot 10000% of the time. I cant believe thats what came out of that timeout we took too. It should have been a pick n roll with marek and kadary

I think Marek was suppose to kick it out and maybe there was suppose to be a couple passes before a shot was to be taken.I agree he went way to early if the play was for Marek to shoot the ball.

 

[CuseFaninVT]

Yeah, I had no problem with the play call - I really like that the play was to going to be to the rim against a guy with 4 fouls. We had 3 guys outside the 3 point line (the D was playing those guys straight up, so no help or double was coming) and Q was on the low blocks. Marek was going to get about a 5 foot shot and Q was going to have inside position if there was a rebound. Marke was stripped with 8.5 on the clock. Maybe it was too early, but I like the aggressive take.

There was 10 seconds left. It literally doesn't matter if the guy has 4 fouls. With that little time on the clock, he's not playing soft there. So, he reached in, poked the ball away, and we nearly lost. It was a poor play call.

 

[CuseFaninVT]

The turnaround seemed to come after a discussion with Boeheim mid 2nd half:

From syracuse.com:

“I was trying to tell him to wake up and play basketball,” Jim Boeheim said later when asked what that meeting was all about.

Whatever transpired there, whatever words were spoken, something dramatic happened when play resumed. Griffin, who had scored four points until then and had been a somewhat invisible presence, suddenly emerged as the best player on the Carrier Dome court.
...
“He was just reminding me of how good a player I am,” Griffin said. “He fired me up. That’s all I can say. He fired me up. It was something I knew I could do inside of myself and he brought it out of me. It was in me to do it. We both knew that. And I don’t know what to say, it played out.”

Which, of course, makes the threads after the Northeastern games about how Boeheim is being a big meanie to AG look even more ridiculous now.

Yeah, I'm glad AG took it to heart, but if JB is such a 5D chess player, why'd it take until the second half for Allen to finally hear the words?

 

[JustPherU]

Yeah, I'm glad AG took it to heart, but if JB is such a 5D chess player, why'd it take until the second half for Allen to finally hear the words?

Maybe it’s me, but AG just seems like he is in a different world a lot of the time.Reminds me of Roberson and how when he was focused he was a monster, but when he wasn’t he was terrible.

 

[twinight]

Yeah, I'm glad AG took it to heart, but if JB is such a 5D chess player, why'd it take until the second half for Allen to finally hear the words?

1. Because humans aren't robots who automatically respond to programming.
2. Because sometimes a message can't be "heard" until a person is in the proper situation.
3. And, to be fair, the words I'm talking about weren't spoken until the second half, so it would have been difficult for him to act on those words earlier.

 

[CuseFaninVT]

1. Because humans aren't robots who automatically respond to programming.
2. Because sometimes a message can't be "heard" until a person is in the proper situation.
3. And, to be fair, the words I'm talking about weren't spoken until the second half, so it would have been difficult for him to act on those words earlier.

Well, you are posting in a thread created specifically because of words uttered during a press conference immediately following the last game. Thus my question.

But I guess that wasn't the 'proper situation' by your definition.

 

[twinight]

Well, you are posting in a thread created specifically because of words uttered during a press conference immediately following the last game. Thus my question.

But I guess that wasn't the 'proper situation' by your definition.

I don't know what thread you think you're in, but this is a thread about Griffin's block which just happened yesterday.

 

[CuseFaninVT]

I don't know what thread you think you're in, but this is a thread about Griffin's block which just happened yesterday.

okay, you got me with that one. thought we were in the JB can't do that to AG thread. Dohh!

 

[81South]

The play call was sketchy. I’d rather run Buddy off staggered screens and get him his shot in the lane. We also aren’t seeing any pick n roll from the top with Kadary’which I find odd.

 

[Cusesky8214]

 

[Capt. Tuttle]

For those of us of a certain age, Rosie Bouie vs Joe Barry Carroll. That announced SU on a national stage.

 

[Trueblue25]

Was a big fan of Dion’s blocks on the perimeter and then dunking in transition

 

[orangecuse]

Yeah, I'm glad AG took it to heart, but if JB is such a 5D chess player, why'd it take until the second half for Allen to finally hear the words?

Cuz...he was just sandbagging.