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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 2371971, member: 289"] - We again got off to a lousy start: 0-11. Then we started to play basketball and it was 12-16. They we started to play Syracuse basketball and the rest of the game was 72-32. JB was disgusted with the effort, especially on the boards, (22-25 in the first half: 27-14 in the second. it was the same pattern in both exhibitions: we won 84-54 and 84-59 and the rest of the country won't see anything wrong but there is plenty wrong, as JB knows and we saw. - A big part of the problem is that no one is in charge on the court. We were just jacking up threes (and were a combined 3 for 23 in the first half of these games). We needed someone to calm things down and get people organized so we can run our offense. No one was doing that. Frank Howard is playing more like a shooting guard. He's scoring well (34 points in 2 games) but he has 5 assists in 49 minutes. Geno Thorpe played 22 minutes and had 4 assists. Even that's not great but it's more like what we expect from a point guard. At one point in the first half we had 0 assists and 11 turnovers. How's that for a ratio? - Paschal Chukwu isn't a stiff, (13 rebounds and 9 blocks in 36 minutes int he two games). But he doesn't score, (2 points on 1 for 3 shooting). On one play he got an offensive rebound right in front for the basket, unguarded. he tried to lay it in off the backboard and missed. he's 7-2. - Bourama Sidibe, three years younger and two years of eligibility, is already a much better player. In two game she played 40 minutes, scored 18 points, had 20 rebounds and blocked 11 shots. To borrow a line from Dino Babers, he knows what he's doing out there. - Tyus Battle scored 20 points in each game but was 10 for 28 from the field (35.7%) and 2 for 12 from the arc (16.7%). I think he's over-doing it trying to be the team's gunner. Last year the jump shot was just part of his game. He'll have help on this team from Brissett, Thorpe and even Howard and Sidibe. He needs to play more within himself. - We are a long way from being a good team but so is everybody else. There used to be a local sports guy named Steve Hyder I didn't think all that much of. But he said one thing I thought was brilliant. Our 1998-99 team got off to a strong start, being Bobby Knight to win in Maui. But after a 6-0 start they stumbled to a 21-12 record and a first round loss in the NCAA tournament. People wondered why the team got worse as the season progressed. Steve suggested maybe they didn't get worse: Maybe the other teams did a better job of getting better. That's what this team needs: do a good job of getting better. [/QUOTE]

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