sutomcat
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It is too bad Maryland went bankrupt and had to hit the eject button and leave the ACC. It would have been fun to have a Rutgers South to kick around. But all is not lost: we have already scheduled an OOC football series with them and I expect we will do the same for basketball, assuming Georgetown continues to be too afraid to play us in hoops anymore. We are going to play in DC regularly, one way or another. If Georgetown wants Maryland to get the sold out houses and the national telecasts instead, fine. I don't really care.
Rak again got into foul trouble immediately, sat out most of the first half and then got in foul trouble again immediately. Thought some of the calls were questionable but RC might want to watch the tape and note that everytime the ball comes near him, something bad happens and he gestures to the officials for a call. Not a great strategy. It is a shame because Maryland had no decent big guys to cover him...just a bunch of slow, fat, unathletic cows milling around. Wasted opportunity. Moo. The freshman actually had some athletic ability but has the basketball IQ of a sturgeon (mentioned in honor of UMd's most excellent head coach).
JG played the first 10 or so minutes of the game. Watched him closely, worried about how his bad back would react after the quick turnaround from the Duke game. He was a shadow of himself, had problems just getting up from the floor, though he did get the one nice dunk on a bungled Terp man defense switch. I suspect JB saw how awful Maryland was and decided we were good enough to beat them without JG, trying to ensure he is 100% for the rest of the season.
Anyway, CJ was terrific in the first half, kept making big baskets and carrying our half court offense, which with JG gone, RC on the bench shaking his head and muttering to himself and TC struggling to hit the rim from the 3 point circle, was highly troubled.
Things were going along fine. Our offense was productive and Maryland helped out by making an astonishing number of unforced turnovers. The frequency and variety were quite brilliant; it was like playing High Point again. Then CJ picked up his 2nd foul handing a ball off on offense (strange call) and his 3rd shortly after, repaired to the bench and JB was forced to replace him with TR. The lineup at that point of the game was TE, TC, MG, TR and BMK. TE was in the midst of a bad shooting slump, TC ditto, MG was struggling, TR has scored maybe 2 points since conference play began and the offensively challenged BMK. Somehow this ragtag lineup was able to hold most of the lead, led mostly by TE, whose long 3 at the end of the half was a foreshadowing of future bad SU shots that somehow went in anyway.
The second half did not start well as RC was bad on defense and out almost before the half began. BMK came in for him and almost immediately hurt himself and limped most of the rest of the game. Not sure if it was the bad knee, but I will say that he seemed better after the first few minutes. Hope he is okay.
UMd struggled to run their offense most of the game. They have no point guard and look very disjointed out there, as though this is the first time they have ever played together as a unit. No one seemed to know their role, they were rarely on the same page, even when someone made a good pass, the recipient would not see it or just let it slip through their hands. Despite all that, SU playing with only 2 players that could score eventually took its toll and UMd crept back into the game late.
Really didn't like the way we ran the clock down late. I am down with the strategy, not down with the execution. Tyler kept finding himself with the ball, far away from the basket with only a couple of seconds left on the clock. A bunch of possessions ended with bad shots and even on the rare times we were able to score, it was on bad shots by CJ and TE at the end of the shot clock that bailed the team out. Also wanted to single out a great pass CJ made to a wide open Silent G late in the game that the silent one nailed for a big 3. For reasons unknown to me (the Maryland scorekeeper ate paint chips as a kid?), CJ was not credited with an assist on that pass.
Given the sell out crowd, the fact it was the biggest game of the season for the Terps, that they had 6 days to prepare and that it was SU's 4th game in 8 days, this was a great win. Like a number of wins this season, it wasn't pretty but the team got the job done. CJ carried the load in the first half and TE made a number of tough shots and big plays in the 2nd, providing just enough (literally) to get the win.
RC has recently made a great defensive play late in the game to seal two wins. He fouled out last night, leaving BMK to be the defensive hero last night, getting the big block on Faust's weak drive down the baseline. Thank God the refs made a good call on that play...it wasn't remotely close to a foul and I was astonished that the troubled Maryland coach thought otherwise.
His team was as disorganized and lost as any team I have ever seen. If there was a not coach of the year, uncoach of the year, worst coach of the year, whatever for the ACC, IMHO, this guy would win in a landslide/
It is too bad Maryland went bankrupt and had to hit the eject button and leave the ACC. It would have been fun to have a Rutgers South to kick around. But all is not lost: we have already scheduled an OOC football series with them and I expect we will do the same for basketball, assuming Georgetown continues to be too afraid to play us in hoops anymore. We are going to play in DC regularly, one way or another. If Georgetown wants Maryland to get the sold out houses and the national telecasts instead, fine. I don't really care.
Rak again got into foul trouble immediately, sat out most of the first half and then got in foul trouble again immediately. Thought some of the calls were questionable but RC might want to watch the tape and note that everytime the ball comes near him, something bad happens and he gestures to the officials for a call. Not a great strategy. It is a shame because Maryland had no decent big guys to cover him...just a bunch of slow, fat, unathletic cows milling around. Wasted opportunity. Moo. The freshman actually had some athletic ability but has the basketball IQ of a sturgeon (mentioned in honor of UMd's most excellent head coach).
JG played the first 10 or so minutes of the game. Watched him closely, worried about how his bad back would react after the quick turnaround from the Duke game. He was a shadow of himself, had problems just getting up from the floor, though he did get the one nice dunk on a bungled Terp man defense switch. I suspect JB saw how awful Maryland was and decided we were good enough to beat them without JG, trying to ensure he is 100% for the rest of the season.
Anyway, CJ was terrific in the first half, kept making big baskets and carrying our half court offense, which with JG gone, RC on the bench shaking his head and muttering to himself and TC struggling to hit the rim from the 3 point circle, was highly troubled.
Things were going along fine. Our offense was productive and Maryland helped out by making an astonishing number of unforced turnovers. The frequency and variety were quite brilliant; it was like playing High Point again. Then CJ picked up his 2nd foul handing a ball off on offense (strange call) and his 3rd shortly after, repaired to the bench and JB was forced to replace him with TR. The lineup at that point of the game was TE, TC, MG, TR and BMK. TE was in the midst of a bad shooting slump, TC ditto, MG was struggling, TR has scored maybe 2 points since conference play began and the offensively challenged BMK. Somehow this ragtag lineup was able to hold most of the lead, led mostly by TE, whose long 3 at the end of the half was a foreshadowing of future bad SU shots that somehow went in anyway.
The second half did not start well as RC was bad on defense and out almost before the half began. BMK came in for him and almost immediately hurt himself and limped most of the rest of the game. Not sure if it was the bad knee, but I will say that he seemed better after the first few minutes. Hope he is okay.
UMd struggled to run their offense most of the game. They have no point guard and look very disjointed out there, as though this is the first time they have ever played together as a unit. No one seemed to know their role, they were rarely on the same page, even when someone made a good pass, the recipient would not see it or just let it slip through their hands. Despite all that, SU playing with only 2 players that could score eventually took its toll and UMd crept back into the game late.
Really didn't like the way we ran the clock down late. I am down with the strategy, not down with the execution. Tyler kept finding himself with the ball, far away from the basket with only a couple of seconds left on the clock. A bunch of possessions ended with bad shots and even on the rare times we were able to score, it was on bad shots by CJ and TE at the end of the shot clock that bailed the team out. Also wanted to single out a great pass CJ made to a wide open Silent G late in the game that the silent one nailed for a big 3. For reasons unknown to me (the Maryland scorekeeper ate paint chips as a kid?), CJ was not credited with an assist on that pass.
Given the sell out crowd, the fact it was the biggest game of the season for the Terps, that they had 6 days to prepare and that it was SU's 4th game in 8 days, this was a great win. Like a number of wins this season, it wasn't pretty but the team got the job done. CJ carried the load in the first half and TE made a number of tough shots and big plays in the 2nd, providing just enough (literally) to get the win.
RC has recently made a great defensive play late in the game to seal two wins. He fouled out last night, leaving BMK to be the defensive hero last night, getting the big block on Faust's weak drive down the baseline. Thank God the refs made a good call on that play...it wasn't remotely close to a foul and I was astonished that the troubled Maryland coach thought otherwise.
His team was as disorganized and lost as any team I have ever seen. If there was a not coach of the year, uncoach of the year, worst coach of the year, whatever for the ACC, IMHO, this guy would win in a landslide/
