SWC75
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- The team can improve over the season. Our big problem is our resume. It’s pretty empty. We’ve lost to anyone who isn’t a mid-major so far. St. John’s is the only remaining team on the pre-conference schedule that isn’t and they also aren’t any good. The win over Monmouth is probably going to be the biggest thing we’ll have to brag about when the conference season begins. We’ve had up years and down years but I have never seen an SU team, (in the Dome era, anyway) that has accomplished so little before the conference season.
- Which means that whatever respect we get on Selection Sunday will be based on what we do in the conference and that’s a problem because this team, as it’s playing now, is going to get crushed in the conference. We have good players but watching them from game to game is like looking at a bank of elevators. In one game, one guy is on the 10th floor but another guy is on the first floor. The next guy is on the 6th floor and the next on the 3rd floor. The next game,, the first guy is on the 5th floor, the second on the 4th floor, the third is on the 2nd floor but the fourth is on the 8th floor. We just don’t have that game-to-game consistency you need to grind out wins against quality competition.
- It doesn’t take long to see where we lost this game when you look at the box score. Both teams attempted 25 free throws. We made 14 of them and they made 22 of them, an 8 point difference. We lost by 7. Seven times we made one of two free throws and six of them we made the first and missed the second. You’d think that if you just made one, it would be easier to make the second one. The first one is like the lazor range finder and the second should be like the bullet.
- If you want to look past that, you’ll also see that rebounds were 18-19 in the first half but 12-22 in the second half. We rebounded 29% of our misses, (the sixth straight time were have been under 30%), while they rebounded 40% of theirs.
- Their two stars, CJ Peak, (23 points, 11 rebounds) and Rodney Pryor (20/6), both had excellent games, more than negating what Tyler Lydon did.
- We were determined to get to the hole but our guards simply can’t finish. Frank Howard broke an 0 for 14 slump but John Gillon was 2 for 10 on two pointers. Georgetown had 5 blocked shots and I think they were probably all on Gillon’s drives.
- Howard had 4 assists and 6 turnovers, hardly the ratio we need in these close games.
- Taurean Thompson found the Hoyas tougher to score on than Boston U. going 2 for 8.
- Andrew White opened with two three pointers. That’s what he does best. He was 0 for 6 the rest of the way.
- DaJuan Coleman was pretty useless in this one. He hit one shot and got a couple rebounds but was constantly out of positon on defense and lacks the mobility to make up for it, limiting him to only 14 minutes of play. With Chukwu out of the year, that leaves it to Thompson and Lydon, both stretch fours, to man the center position.
- Tyler Roberson’s fade-out continues with 1 rebound in 6 minutes of play.
- Tyus Battle was sick and I don’t blame him.
- JB in his presser seemed like a coach who had said and done everything he can think over and is simply regained to the fact that the only thing that will make this team better is if the players start playing the game the way they are supposed to play it. This game was the product of a week of five practices and yet, other than Lydon, there wasn’t much improvement to be seen.
- Since Arinze Onuaku went down in the 2010 BET vs. the Hoyas, Georgetown has won 6 of the last 9 games against us. If they still suck, what do we do?
- Which means that whatever respect we get on Selection Sunday will be based on what we do in the conference and that’s a problem because this team, as it’s playing now, is going to get crushed in the conference. We have good players but watching them from game to game is like looking at a bank of elevators. In one game, one guy is on the 10th floor but another guy is on the first floor. The next guy is on the 6th floor and the next on the 3rd floor. The next game,, the first guy is on the 5th floor, the second on the 4th floor, the third is on the 2nd floor but the fourth is on the 8th floor. We just don’t have that game-to-game consistency you need to grind out wins against quality competition.
- It doesn’t take long to see where we lost this game when you look at the box score. Both teams attempted 25 free throws. We made 14 of them and they made 22 of them, an 8 point difference. We lost by 7. Seven times we made one of two free throws and six of them we made the first and missed the second. You’d think that if you just made one, it would be easier to make the second one. The first one is like the lazor range finder and the second should be like the bullet.
- If you want to look past that, you’ll also see that rebounds were 18-19 in the first half but 12-22 in the second half. We rebounded 29% of our misses, (the sixth straight time were have been under 30%), while they rebounded 40% of theirs.
- Their two stars, CJ Peak, (23 points, 11 rebounds) and Rodney Pryor (20/6), both had excellent games, more than negating what Tyler Lydon did.
- We were determined to get to the hole but our guards simply can’t finish. Frank Howard broke an 0 for 14 slump but John Gillon was 2 for 10 on two pointers. Georgetown had 5 blocked shots and I think they were probably all on Gillon’s drives.
- Howard had 4 assists and 6 turnovers, hardly the ratio we need in these close games.
- Taurean Thompson found the Hoyas tougher to score on than Boston U. going 2 for 8.
- Andrew White opened with two three pointers. That’s what he does best. He was 0 for 6 the rest of the way.
- DaJuan Coleman was pretty useless in this one. He hit one shot and got a couple rebounds but was constantly out of positon on defense and lacks the mobility to make up for it, limiting him to only 14 minutes of play. With Chukwu out of the year, that leaves it to Thompson and Lydon, both stretch fours, to man the center position.
- Tyler Roberson’s fade-out continues with 1 rebound in 6 minutes of play.
- Tyus Battle was sick and I don’t blame him.
- JB in his presser seemed like a coach who had said and done everything he can think over and is simply regained to the fact that the only thing that will make this team better is if the players start playing the game the way they are supposed to play it. This game was the product of a week of five practices and yet, other than Lydon, there wasn’t much improvement to be seen.
- Since Arinze Onuaku went down in the 2010 BET vs. the Hoyas, Georgetown has won 6 of the last 9 games against us. If they still suck, what do we do?
