SWC75
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- Well we had a nice week of feeling good, or at least better, about the team but that’s over for now. Yes, we should win the next three games but we will not have a single significant non-conference win and just a +3 cushion in our quest for a 50th straight winning record going into the meat of the ACC schedule.
- We have now lost to Penn State, (in basketball) and Georgetown in the same season. In fact, within 15 days of each other. These are the days that try men’s souls….
- We scored 16 two point baskets. So did they. We scored 14 three pointers. They scored 11. How did we lose? We scored 5 points from the line. They scored 24. How did we score 5 while they scored 24? Because we only got to attempt 9 free throws while they got to attempt 31. Why did they get to attempt 31 free throws while we only got to attempt 9? Because we were whistled for 23 fouls and they were whistled for 14. Georgetown was down four players but we still couldn’t beat them due to their three new recruits.
- Of course you could get those numbers if we were playing in a rough and/or inept fashion compared to the Hoyas. And you might think that if you didn’t watch the game. Marek Sloezaj scored 6 baskets and they should probably all have been “and ones” with him at the foul line after a made basket. He fouled out with 5 fouls, at some of which were bogus, especially a “moving screen” in which the replay showed him to be clearly stationary while a Hoya blasted into him and Elijah Hughes made a three that would have given us the lead at 37-34 with 3:40 left in the half. That was his third fouls. JB had to take him out and sent Quincy Guerrier in for another semi-comic appearance. Dolezaj had been playing a great two-man game with Hughes, something that was shut off by Marek’s absence. Georgetown won the rest of the half 2-12 and were in control for the rest of the game.
- But the refs couldn’t win it all by themselves. We were again dominate don the boards, 29-41, thanks to 5 offensive rebounds compared to 14. I know it’s hard to rebound from a zone but we aren’t in a zone when we were on offense. Sidibie got 3 rebounds in 28 minutes. Jesse Edwards got zero in 11 minutes. Guerrier got one in his two stints, totaling 5 minutes. Buddy Boeheim got 2 in 36 minutes. He’s a guard but he’s 6-5. Nobody had more than 2 O-rebs.
- They were the short-handed team but their bench had 9 points and 8 rebounds. Ours had 2 and 3.
- JB said at half time that the problem was that we weren’t playing any defense. You aren’t going to win many games giving up 48 points in the first half. They hit 58% of their threes. In the second half we did better, holding them to 31% from outside. But the Hoyas kept getting a big basket or a small spurt each time we threatened to make a game of it. That’s a huge key in any sport: baseball, football, basketball and I’m sure hockey: ANSWER THEM! Georgetown always had an answer for everything we did. We were full of questions.
- I feel like we are passengers on a plane that's running out of runway.
- We have now lost to Penn State, (in basketball) and Georgetown in the same season. In fact, within 15 days of each other. These are the days that try men’s souls….
- We scored 16 two point baskets. So did they. We scored 14 three pointers. They scored 11. How did we lose? We scored 5 points from the line. They scored 24. How did we score 5 while they scored 24? Because we only got to attempt 9 free throws while they got to attempt 31. Why did they get to attempt 31 free throws while we only got to attempt 9? Because we were whistled for 23 fouls and they were whistled for 14. Georgetown was down four players but we still couldn’t beat them due to their three new recruits.
- Of course you could get those numbers if we were playing in a rough and/or inept fashion compared to the Hoyas. And you might think that if you didn’t watch the game. Marek Sloezaj scored 6 baskets and they should probably all have been “and ones” with him at the foul line after a made basket. He fouled out with 5 fouls, at some of which were bogus, especially a “moving screen” in which the replay showed him to be clearly stationary while a Hoya blasted into him and Elijah Hughes made a three that would have given us the lead at 37-34 with 3:40 left in the half. That was his third fouls. JB had to take him out and sent Quincy Guerrier in for another semi-comic appearance. Dolezaj had been playing a great two-man game with Hughes, something that was shut off by Marek’s absence. Georgetown won the rest of the half 2-12 and were in control for the rest of the game.
- But the refs couldn’t win it all by themselves. We were again dominate don the boards, 29-41, thanks to 5 offensive rebounds compared to 14. I know it’s hard to rebound from a zone but we aren’t in a zone when we were on offense. Sidibie got 3 rebounds in 28 minutes. Jesse Edwards got zero in 11 minutes. Guerrier got one in his two stints, totaling 5 minutes. Buddy Boeheim got 2 in 36 minutes. He’s a guard but he’s 6-5. Nobody had more than 2 O-rebs.
- They were the short-handed team but their bench had 9 points and 8 rebounds. Ours had 2 and 3.
- JB said at half time that the problem was that we weren’t playing any defense. You aren’t going to win many games giving up 48 points in the first half. They hit 58% of their threes. In the second half we did better, holding them to 31% from outside. But the Hoyas kept getting a big basket or a small spurt each time we threatened to make a game of it. That’s a huge key in any sport: baseball, football, basketball and I’m sure hockey: ANSWER THEM! Georgetown always had an answer for everything we did. We were full of questions.
- I feel like we are passengers on a plane that's running out of runway.
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