SWC75
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- Before the game, Matt Park and Jimmy Satalin were marveling at Florida State as the biggest and deepest team in the nation. This made me sad because we were supposed to be a team that could put a line-up out there that went 7-2, 6-10, 6-9, 6-6, 6-4 and go 10 deep. We should have been the perfect team to match-up against the Seminoles. Moyer got hurt and red-shirted. But Chukwu took a basketball in the eye. Coleman couldn’t move or jump. Lydon couldn’t handle the 3 spot and White was a better college forward than a guard. Frank Howard got beaten out by John Gillon. So we’re down to 6 guys and go 6-9, 6-10 or 8, 6-6, 6-6, 6-0 (if he hops up and down). We found a way to win anyway but we still aren’t the team we should have been.
- I wish we could go back and play the teams we lost to and play like this. But I think that’s against the rules.
- Tyler Roberson at the foul line: 0 for 6. Geesh! They weren’t even close. He’s John Gillon’s evil twin: if he’s out there at the end of a close game, we’ve got to keep the ball out of his hands or it’s the equivalent of a turnover.
- Frank Howard didn’t seem to know what he was doing out there. On one possession he came across the midcourt line and stood there while two guys trapped him, then tried to make an awkward pass underneath their arms. It was tapped away for a turnover. Satalin said “You learn not to do that in grade school.”
- Taurean Thompson’s foul troubles, (typical of a freshman big man), continued. He was held to 7 minutes played with 4 fouls. That forces JB to use Roberson, who is an offensive liability and a foul line disaster.
- I hate to complain about the guy who sealed the win for us but John Gillon still needs to develop a better instinct about his drives. At Colorado State they wanted him to “take it to the hole” and he’s found the defense can easily stop that if the know it’s coming and you aren’t really six feet tall. JB told him to look to pass and for much of the game he was doing that almost exclusively, even to the point of giving up and open shot to pass to a guy who was covered because he’s supposed to pass. He stopped doing that and instead went to a floater that he was praying would go in an rarely did, (he was 1 for 4 on two point shots). He’ll really be able to take the greatest advantage of his talents if he realizes when to drive and when to pass. That’s still a work in progress.
- A big factor in Florida State’s comeback was that the refs called nothing under the basket on our end but got whistle happy on the other end. It doesn’t show up in the box score because the Seminoles were intentionally fouling at the end. For much of the second half we couldn’t get anything inside because of the way the game was called.
- Another factor in the comeback was that we didn’t maintain the defensive intensity of the first half in the second, until the game got close and then we had to respond. It was probably too much to hope for but I was hoping we could get off to a good start in the second half and not have to sweat things out. But nothing good is ever easy.
- I wish we could go back and play the teams we lost to and play like this. But I think that’s against the rules.
- Tyler Roberson at the foul line: 0 for 6. Geesh! They weren’t even close. He’s John Gillon’s evil twin: if he’s out there at the end of a close game, we’ve got to keep the ball out of his hands or it’s the equivalent of a turnover.
- Frank Howard didn’t seem to know what he was doing out there. On one possession he came across the midcourt line and stood there while two guys trapped him, then tried to make an awkward pass underneath their arms. It was tapped away for a turnover. Satalin said “You learn not to do that in grade school.”
- Taurean Thompson’s foul troubles, (typical of a freshman big man), continued. He was held to 7 minutes played with 4 fouls. That forces JB to use Roberson, who is an offensive liability and a foul line disaster.
- I hate to complain about the guy who sealed the win for us but John Gillon still needs to develop a better instinct about his drives. At Colorado State they wanted him to “take it to the hole” and he’s found the defense can easily stop that if the know it’s coming and you aren’t really six feet tall. JB told him to look to pass and for much of the game he was doing that almost exclusively, even to the point of giving up and open shot to pass to a guy who was covered because he’s supposed to pass. He stopped doing that and instead went to a floater that he was praying would go in an rarely did, (he was 1 for 4 on two point shots). He’ll really be able to take the greatest advantage of his talents if he realizes when to drive and when to pass. That’s still a work in progress.
- A big factor in Florida State’s comeback was that the refs called nothing under the basket on our end but got whistle happy on the other end. It doesn’t show up in the box score because the Seminoles were intentionally fouling at the end. For much of the second half we couldn’t get anything inside because of the way the game was called.
- Another factor in the comeback was that we didn’t maintain the defensive intensity of the first half in the second, until the game got close and then we had to respond. It was probably too much to hope for but I was hoping we could get off to a good start in the second half and not have to sweat things out. But nothing good is ever easy.
