SWC75
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- Another one-sided lost to a good team, telling us that we aren’t one.
- Here’s an interview Alan Griffin, (still in Syracuse because his wife was ready to give birth), gave to Brian Higgins today:
At the end of it, he’s asked was he was most looking for in this game. His response was “It’s the war inside. I just think whoever wins the inside battle wins the game and that’s from rebounding to scoring in the paint….When we establish our inside presence, we’re a different team.” Earlier he had said that he felt this Clemson team was not as physical as their last two teams. Clemson had 40 points in the paint to our 20. When they pulled ahead late in the first half I kept hearing Lampkins’ name as Matt Park said he just retreated and let a guy score. Meanwhile Schieffelin ate Jyare Davis whole.
- As usual, turnovers were a big reason we lost. We had 14 to Clemson’s 7 but that wasn’t the big number. We had 4 points off our 7 takeovers. Clemson got 19 off of theirs. We also had 0 fast break points to the Tigers’ 11. We not only make turnovers. We make turnovers that lead to fast breaks and we are terrible at defending fast breaks. Clemson had 10 steals to 4.
- Offensively, JJ Starling was great. Eddie Lampkin, as usual got some baskets, mostly after the game had been decided. Nobody ese reached double figures, also Kyle Cuffe had 9 points. Kyle would have reached double figures had he not tried to throw down a thunderous dunk that never got high enough. He’s got to realize that since his injury, he’s lost the verticality he had in those high school tapes. Really, we don’t have a dunker on the team. Just lay it in!
- Too many of our possessions ate up most of the shot clock and wound up with high-difficult jumpers or lay-ups. We are just too easy to defend.
- We only attempted 6 free throws to 21 and lost 10 points at the line. But I don’t blame the refs. Our offense didn’t get into the paint enough and our defense produced fouls because you commit fouls when you get beat.
- Elijah, what are you doing?
- Here’s an interview Alan Griffin, (still in Syracuse because his wife was ready to give birth), gave to Brian Higgins today:
At the end of it, he’s asked was he was most looking for in this game. His response was “It’s the war inside. I just think whoever wins the inside battle wins the game and that’s from rebounding to scoring in the paint….When we establish our inside presence, we’re a different team.” Earlier he had said that he felt this Clemson team was not as physical as their last two teams. Clemson had 40 points in the paint to our 20. When they pulled ahead late in the first half I kept hearing Lampkins’ name as Matt Park said he just retreated and let a guy score. Meanwhile Schieffelin ate Jyare Davis whole.
- As usual, turnovers were a big reason we lost. We had 14 to Clemson’s 7 but that wasn’t the big number. We had 4 points off our 7 takeovers. Clemson got 19 off of theirs. We also had 0 fast break points to the Tigers’ 11. We not only make turnovers. We make turnovers that lead to fast breaks and we are terrible at defending fast breaks. Clemson had 10 steals to 4.
- Offensively, JJ Starling was great. Eddie Lampkin, as usual got some baskets, mostly after the game had been decided. Nobody ese reached double figures, also Kyle Cuffe had 9 points. Kyle would have reached double figures had he not tried to throw down a thunderous dunk that never got high enough. He’s got to realize that since his injury, he’s lost the verticality he had in those high school tapes. Really, we don’t have a dunker on the team. Just lay it in!
- Too many of our possessions ate up most of the shot clock and wound up with high-difficult jumpers or lay-ups. We are just too easy to defend.
- We only attempted 6 free throws to 21 and lost 10 points at the line. But I don’t blame the refs. Our offense didn’t get into the paint enough and our defense produced fouls because you commit fouls when you get beat.
- Elijah, what are you doing?
