JB

[Jake]

Loved his decision to run away from their big guy when he flashed to the ft line. Brilliant move.

 

[Marsh01]

Wow it was like he jumped into a vat of and noone would go near him. Brilliant.

 

[omniorange]

I loved it when he told Bilas in the interview after the game that that was the game plan all along, but Fab got too caught up in doing what he normally does. In a way, that may have best since had we done it from the start I think Pitino would have moved Kuric into the middle and perhaps gotten him some easy jump shots.

Cheers,
Neil

 

[edowd26]

Loved his decision to run away from their big guy when he flashed to the ft line. Brilliant move.

any idea how the recruiting weekend went?

 

[Flacusian]

Brilliant! simply brilliant!
If it ain't Orange, it ain't nuthin!

 

[PeteCalvin]

I loved it when he told Bilas in the interview after the game that that was the game plan all along, but Fab got too caught up in doing what he normally does. In a way, that may have best since had we done it from the start I think Pitino would have moved Kuric into the middle and perhaps gotten him some easy jump shots.

That's exactly what would have happened, too. Rick will throw that into his counterattack next time. However, we can play it based on how they move their guys around. Whenever Kuric is on the outside, leave the FT line area open. If he comes in, collapse.

 

[cliftonparksufan]

Loved his decision to run away from their big guy when he flashed to the ft line. Brilliant move.

I thought JB really outcoached Pitino. Something we haven't always seen. Thought Louisville got in trouble by eating up all of their timeouts. Behanen and Chris Smith had good games but that was it. Silva is overrated anywaysand Kuric and Blackshear were nonfactors. Thought Southerland played his best game of the year and gave us great minutes when KJ went out.

 

[tbonezone]

c'mon now. it didn't take a genius to see that every time fab left the circle they torched us baseline. rudimentary rudy.

 

[Dick_in_MI]

Loved his decision to run away from their big guy when he flashed to the ft line. Brilliant move.

Agree. Their big guy stood there like "what the do I do now??????"

JB isn't Hall of Fame for nothing

 

[BlueCurtain]

That's exactly what would have happened, too. Rick will throw that into his counterattack next time. However, we can play it based on how they move their guys around. Whenever Kuric is on the outside, leave the FT line area open. If he comes in, collapse.

I'm surprised Pitino didn't make those adjustments in the 2nd half.

 

[Jasoncuse]

Or it's a horrible job by Pitino of not having Kuric flashing there. He did it last year and I've seen Kuric do it against other teams in the past too. I have no clue why he kept Kuric and Smith stuck on the wings all night instead of flashing into the lane. After the first miss or TO by Dieng, you'd think Pitino would have seen what would happen. I'm shocked he didn't make the adjustment, so it's hard to credit JB that much. If that guy was going to continue being the one available in the paint, then let him have it.

 

[jec1521]

If Kuric flashed to the line, Fab would come up and swat his shot away pretty easily. That trick worked last year with a slow Melo and an undersized Rick. Wouldn't work this year.

 

[mark79]

Also they don't have as much shooting as last year so there preference is that he is one of the wing shooters.

 

[SmilinBob]

JB did a nice job the only real beef I have with him was that he should have taken Fab out for a blow soon after his fastbreak dunk, you could see he was winded and Baye was playing pretty well. That was when Louisville got all those layups to take the 5 point lead but Fab did fight through it.

 

[SmilinBob]

Also they don't have as much shooting as last year so there preference is that he is one of the wing shooters.

Agree and if Kuric goes to the lane then Melo pops up and you cover the basket from the wing on the side of the worst shooter.

 

[ForeverOrange]

I was amazed at how good of a job the guards did on Kuric, I could barely find any shots times he had wide open shots, they did an excellent job of identifying and getting up on him.

 

[cliftonparksufan]

I was amazed at how good of a job the guards did on Kuric, I could barely find any shots times he had wide open shots, they did an excellent job of identifying and getting up on him.

He shot 1-8 iin a very invisible 35 minutes. Only four games this season has he had fewer shots and only one game this season has he had less than the three points he had and that was vs Kentucky when he had two points on 1-4 shooting in 38 minutes. Sounds like a coincidence to me.

 

[007]

I was amazed at how good of a job the guards did on Kuric, I could barely find any shots times he had wide open shots, they did an excellent job of identifying and getting up on him.

Good point. The D keyed on Kuric from the start. I have not seen a replay, but during the game, it was mostly the forwards who stayed with Kuric almost wherever he was (maned up on him in their area). At one point in the 2nd half I was wondering if they were playing a box and 1. They were not, but it was about as close as they could come. Never seen JB do this.

The counter was that Siva could penetrate from Kuric's side. Pitino also tried to overload the zone to Kuric's side. Just a great job by the D last night dealing and adjusting to all that.

 

[pfister1]

Or it's a horrible job by Pitino of not having Kuric flashing there. He did it last year and I've seen Kuric do it against other teams in the past too. I have no clue why he kept Kuric and Smith stuck on the wings all night instead of flashing into the lane. After the first miss or TO by Dieng, you'd think Pitino would have seen what would happen. I'm shocked he didn't make the adjustment, so it's hard to credit JB that much. If that guy was going to continue being the one available in the paint, then let him have it.

Why is it hard to credit JB, it was an adjustment (or game strategy if you believe his post game interview) that probably won us the game.

 

[JOC44]

The other adjustment JB made was that after about the first five minutes, we ducked under every high screen set for Siva so Siva couldn't penetrate off the screen. For everyone else, we continued to fight over the high screen.

 

[SmilinBob]

The other adjustment JB made was that after about the first five minutes, we ducked under every high screen set for Siva so Siva couldn't penetrate off the screen. For everyone else, we continued to fight over the high screen.

A solid move against a guy that can penetrate and not shoot, good point.

 

[Millhouse]

Loved his decision to run away from their big guy when he flashed to the ft line. Brilliant move.

poor guy looked totally baffled why is no one near me what do they know that i don't oh god i don't like this someone please take the ball

 

[SmilinBob]

To be honest I think the fact that Melo didn't do it earlier worked out better because they might have adjusted to it if he did it before. It was nice to see him panic looking for that bounce pass and being so open.

 

[BostonOrange]

Loved his decision to run away from their big guy when he flashed to the ft line. Brilliant move.

Rick doesn't seem thrilled with his big man deciding to stop taking the wide open 12 fter... "Plays like Gorgui not shooting that shot, that bothers me because we work on that every single day for 45 minutes. I don't care if our guys miss shots," Pitino said. "When they're open, they've got to shoot the ball. That kind of thing irks the hell out of me."

 

[All4SU]

I wondered if First have Good Siva turned into Second half bad Siva because he was pissed that he sat so long.