SWC75
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- We bolted out to a 30-10 lead and played so badly after that that Jim Boeheim was at a loss to describe how badly we played. “I don’t know what you’d call that” he said on the radio. Maybe we should just look at the numbers: Tyler Roberson hit two free throws to make it 30-10 with 7:33 left in the first half. From that point until 2:01 of the second half we got out-scored 7-22.
- I think the best explanation was the one Boeheim used in his press conference: Our guys just thought the game was well in hand and stopped playing hard. The team has a disturbing recent trend of not playing hard for 40 minutes. Against High Point, we were down 39-40 in the second half. Against Villanova we got off to a 7-25 start. And in this game we had that 7-22 stretch. You keep doing that, especially against better competition, you’re going to be looking at an unfriendly scoreboard at the end of a game. We need to start playing teams we know can beat us on a regular basis and we will.
- Jimmy Salatin made a good point: we were trying to attack Rob Murphy’s zone the way other people attack ours: from the high post. But our guys are not used to playing from there, with their back to the basket and making shots, passes or moves to the basket from that spot. People are surprised that the most famous zone team in the land doesn’t know how to attack zone. But we don’t see many of them and we face one, especially a good one like our own, we look as confused as those teams we play early in the NCAA tournament. I wish we would play from the high post more often: it’s a great way to attack in the half court. It’s easier to feed someone there than in the low post and a if you have a guy who can shoot, pass or drive to the basket, you can score a lot of points from there. And we have a guy who should be able to play well there: CJ Fair. But we keep CJ in the corner, 20 feet from the basket.
- JB was asked if he’d ever seen a game where the best player on the court didn’t score. He said, “no” and that he hadn’t seen one tonight either. He felt that grant who “won the game in the first five minutes” was the best player tonight, not Tyler Ennis. Then he discussed how points scored could be deceiving: Rakeem Christmas had 8 points at halftime but “it was his worst half of the season because he had no rebounds and let people get behind him on defense”.
- That may have been a reference to the fact that Glenn Bryant, who was averaging 9.6ppg and scored 6 points on Duke got 19 on us on 8 for 11 shooting. He scored 40% of his team’s points. His teammates were 9 for 43 from the field, (.209).
- We were 3 for 14 from three point range. Trevor Cooney was 2 for 5, his teammates 1 for 9, including 0 for 5 from CJ Fair. Why are we even taking threes when it’s not Cooney?
- I think the best explanation was the one Boeheim used in his press conference: Our guys just thought the game was well in hand and stopped playing hard. The team has a disturbing recent trend of not playing hard for 40 minutes. Against High Point, we were down 39-40 in the second half. Against Villanova we got off to a 7-25 start. And in this game we had that 7-22 stretch. You keep doing that, especially against better competition, you’re going to be looking at an unfriendly scoreboard at the end of a game. We need to start playing teams we know can beat us on a regular basis and we will.
- Jimmy Salatin made a good point: we were trying to attack Rob Murphy’s zone the way other people attack ours: from the high post. But our guys are not used to playing from there, with their back to the basket and making shots, passes or moves to the basket from that spot. People are surprised that the most famous zone team in the land doesn’t know how to attack zone. But we don’t see many of them and we face one, especially a good one like our own, we look as confused as those teams we play early in the NCAA tournament. I wish we would play from the high post more often: it’s a great way to attack in the half court. It’s easier to feed someone there than in the low post and a if you have a guy who can shoot, pass or drive to the basket, you can score a lot of points from there. And we have a guy who should be able to play well there: CJ Fair. But we keep CJ in the corner, 20 feet from the basket.
- JB was asked if he’d ever seen a game where the best player on the court didn’t score. He said, “no” and that he hadn’t seen one tonight either. He felt that grant who “won the game in the first five minutes” was the best player tonight, not Tyler Ennis. Then he discussed how points scored could be deceiving: Rakeem Christmas had 8 points at halftime but “it was his worst half of the season because he had no rebounds and let people get behind him on defense”.
- That may have been a reference to the fact that Glenn Bryant, who was averaging 9.6ppg and scored 6 points on Duke got 19 on us on 8 for 11 shooting. He scored 40% of his team’s points. His teammates were 9 for 43 from the field, (.209).
- We were 3 for 14 from three point range. Trevor Cooney was 2 for 5, his teammates 1 for 9, including 0 for 5 from CJ Fair. Why are we even taking threes when it’s not Cooney?
