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- After holding both Wake Forest and Pittsburgh under their scoring averages and shutting Pitt totally down for the first 9 minutes of the second half, the ball rolled all the way down the hill – and into the basket- for the SU defense. State shot 54.9% overall and 60% from three. They were 4 for 30 from three in Tallahassee and 12 for 20 here. Both seem like outliers. If they’d hit 33% in both games, they have hit 10 down there and won by 15 and hit 7 here and lost by 10. That’s basketball but threes are not frees: we get a chance to defend them. Obviously, we didn’t do that well. We did play good defense in stretches, (sometime 29 second stretches), but you are unlikely to win giving up those shooting percentages.
- We’d given up only 18 points as of the 5:17 mark of the first half, a pace for 49 points. The ‘Noles scored 58 in the last 25:17 of the game, a pace for 92 points. The difference was that FSU was trying to attack the zone with no one in the high post for that first 14:43. Then they put a guy in the high post and it was like applying a can-opener to the zone. Three-point percentages go way up when the ball comes inside first. Latter JB countered by going to the 1-1-3 and it stopped that but that creates some weaknesses of its own.
- We continue to get burned form the corner. The Charge of the Light Center isn’t enough to stop it. Yet, if we put the forwards down there, the wings are open. The three-guard line-up did help us down the stretch, though.
- Jimmy Boeheim did not have a good game, missing 6 of 9 shots, including the potential winner at the end. Was he fouled? Are you going to get the call there? Does it matter what we think?
- JB said that he told Joe Girard to be aggressive in the first half and that advise worked wonders. Joe blew by defenders for 11 points and assists. In the second half he got none and none, going 0 for 4. He wound up with 5 turnovers and force JB to hand the keys to Symir.
- Frank Anselem: 6 minutes, three fouls. No other stat.
- Benny Williams was a spectator. Is he this year’s Jalen Carey/Brycen Goodine?
- We probably lost the game with Jimmy’s missed shot and the rebound that went over everybody’s head. But there’s no excuse for giving up the break away at the end, (especially when we were looking to foul) or the pass that made Garrett Shrader blush that eliminated any possibility but defeat. How many can we let slip away and make anything of this season?
- We’d given up only 18 points as of the 5:17 mark of the first half, a pace for 49 points. The ‘Noles scored 58 in the last 25:17 of the game, a pace for 92 points. The difference was that FSU was trying to attack the zone with no one in the high post for that first 14:43. Then they put a guy in the high post and it was like applying a can-opener to the zone. Three-point percentages go way up when the ball comes inside first. Latter JB countered by going to the 1-1-3 and it stopped that but that creates some weaknesses of its own.
- We continue to get burned form the corner. The Charge of the Light Center isn’t enough to stop it. Yet, if we put the forwards down there, the wings are open. The three-guard line-up did help us down the stretch, though.
- Jimmy Boeheim did not have a good game, missing 6 of 9 shots, including the potential winner at the end. Was he fouled? Are you going to get the call there? Does it matter what we think?
- JB said that he told Joe Girard to be aggressive in the first half and that advise worked wonders. Joe blew by defenders for 11 points and assists. In the second half he got none and none, going 0 for 4. He wound up with 5 turnovers and force JB to hand the keys to Symir.
- Frank Anselem: 6 minutes, three fouls. No other stat.
- Benny Williams was a spectator. Is he this year’s Jalen Carey/Brycen Goodine?
- We probably lost the game with Jimmy’s missed shot and the rebound that went over everybody’s head. But there’s no excuse for giving up the break away at the end, (especially when we were looking to foul) or the pass that made Garrett Shrader blush that eliminated any possibility but defeat. How many can we let slip away and make anything of this season?
