SWC75
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- We had a chance to pull off a second historical upset in what has been a frustrating season and it slipped away. We had too many early turnovers and couldn’t make the big shots we needed down the stretch.
- Zion Williamson was just a man among boys. Matt Park compared him to the playground bully who plays with the little kids so he can win all the time. He won’t be playing with the little kids for long. Tonight he set an ACC tournament record by going 13 for 13. We had nobody who could guard him at all. (And if anybody tried the refs blew the whistle- Williamson doesn’t even need their help).
- I listened to Matt Park and Jimmy Satalin on local radio. They spent the whole game bemoaning that our players didn’t have the strength to make a stop, make a basket through one of the many uncalled fouls or get a tough rebound. I get sick of this. Can’t we recruit somebody with some girth and muscle? Don’t we have a weight room and a training table?
- Duke had 18 turnovers but we had 17 of our own and weak handles was the problem. We get so many balls tipped away or simply lose the dribble on some of them. It was just a bunch of shooters out there with no point guard. Recruit a point guard!
- I don’t have the SU box score that shows this stuff, but fast break points had to have been ugly. Almost every SU turnover resulted in a fast break and most of them were successful.
- One guy who did not come up big was Elijah Hughes who scored 8 points on 2 for 8 shooting. He never seemed able to get by his defender.
- Paschal Chukwu must not being using a mouth wash. He keeps getting called for things that could only have been bad breath because there was little or no contact.
- We missed 9 free throws. Fortunately they did, too. Still…
- A 2-17 run in the first half put us in the hole we crawled out of. We finally got it tied at 46 with 12:48 left. It was 26-38 after that. We gave up 46 points in 27 minutes and 38 more in the last 13 minutes. We may have just gotten tired.
- Frank Howard’s bush league play or sticking his foot out and tripping Williamson puts us in a bad light and JB’s refusal to admit he did that in the presser after he said that he’d looked at the taped puts us in a worse light.
- But Duke is the last school that should be whining about tripping.
- Zion Williamson was just a man among boys. Matt Park compared him to the playground bully who plays with the little kids so he can win all the time. He won’t be playing with the little kids for long. Tonight he set an ACC tournament record by going 13 for 13. We had nobody who could guard him at all. (And if anybody tried the refs blew the whistle- Williamson doesn’t even need their help).
- I listened to Matt Park and Jimmy Satalin on local radio. They spent the whole game bemoaning that our players didn’t have the strength to make a stop, make a basket through one of the many uncalled fouls or get a tough rebound. I get sick of this. Can’t we recruit somebody with some girth and muscle? Don’t we have a weight room and a training table?
- Duke had 18 turnovers but we had 17 of our own and weak handles was the problem. We get so many balls tipped away or simply lose the dribble on some of them. It was just a bunch of shooters out there with no point guard. Recruit a point guard!
- I don’t have the SU box score that shows this stuff, but fast break points had to have been ugly. Almost every SU turnover resulted in a fast break and most of them were successful.
- One guy who did not come up big was Elijah Hughes who scored 8 points on 2 for 8 shooting. He never seemed able to get by his defender.
- Paschal Chukwu must not being using a mouth wash. He keeps getting called for things that could only have been bad breath because there was little or no contact.
- We missed 9 free throws. Fortunately they did, too. Still…
- A 2-17 run in the first half put us in the hole we crawled out of. We finally got it tied at 46 with 12:48 left. It was 26-38 after that. We gave up 46 points in 27 minutes and 38 more in the last 13 minutes. We may have just gotten tired.
- Frank Howard’s bush league play or sticking his foot out and tripping Williamson puts us in a bad light and JB’s refusal to admit he did that in the presser after he said that he’d looked at the taped puts us in a worse light.
- But Duke is the last school that should be whining about tripping.
