SWC75
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- Well, we were a hot team.
- Early on I thought we were in great shape: up 18-6 on a team whose head didn’t seem to be in the game, perhaps because of all their off-the-court problem s and the fact that they can’t play in the past season. Then it all seemed to turn around on one play. We kicked a Louisville pass into the backcourt, (the refs didn’t see it as a kick). Louisville got to the ball first and then passed it to an open guy who hit the three that got them going. Louisville is a pressing team and you can’t set up the press unless the other team has to take the ball in from under the basket. They’d been missing shots and now they’d made one and immediately set up the press. They started getting turnovers and stops. Their energy level increased and they started making shots, which in turn allowed them to set the press up again. That’s how Louisville wins and the reason why they’ve overcome substantial Syracuse leads to win going away so many times over the years.
- JB”s response was to “go small by pulling DaJuan Coleman and Tyler Roberson, which killed our rebounding and led to 17 second chance points. That and our lousy defense led to 50 points in the paint for Louisville, (who was a mediocre 7 for 23 from the arc and nothing from the twilight zone between the arc and the paint- they won the game by going inside.)
- Rick Pitino’s team has success against Jim Boeheim’s teams for two other reasons. One if =s their half-court defense. They are one of those teams that push the envelope on what they are allowed to do on defense, getting up close and personal with shooters and slapping at the ball constantly. Our offense looked beautiful against teams like Wake Forest and Boston College when we got wide-open shots and could drive right to the basket to score. But here somebody was on every shooter and nobody could get to the basket without being fouled. And we didn’t make our fouls shots, so we didn’t make them pay.
- The other reason is that the know how to attack the zone, which often works early in these games and then stops working as the game progresses. In this game, it just kind of evaporated and the Cardinals had their way on every possession. They are an excellent passing team. They had four guys with 4 or more assists, including a pretty one by Onuaku, who seems a much more talented player than his brother. Chinanu had quite a game: 13 points, 15 rebounds, 4 assist and block and steal. He was 6 for 9 from the field and made his only free throw, (in fact, his team’s only successful free throw). He had 1 turnover and 2 fouls. That’s 28 not points in 29 minutes, (38.6 per 40 minutes). Our big guys, Coleman, Roberson and Lydon had a total of 14 net points in 73 minutes.
- What I’ll remember this team the most for is all the missed dunks, lay-ups and tip-ins I’ve seen this year. This was our worst game in this regard. The play-byplay records 5 missed lay-ups and one missed dunk but when we get fouled the missed shot is not recorded. I counted 10 times when a Syracuse player attempted two free throws with no time change in the play-by play. I didn’t count a single three point play, where they made a basket and got one foul shot. That’s 10 missed shots not recorded and virtually all of them were dunks, lay-up and tip-ins, all missed. And we missed 8 of those 20 free throws. Add in the 6 recorded missed lay-ups and dunks and you have a potential 42 points that we converted into 8 points.
- We attempted 21 free throws to 2 but only got +11 points out of it. We also out-scored them 24-21 from the arc. Too bad we lost inside the arc, 22-50.
- Remember those 6 straight games when we didn’t give up a fast break point? We gave up 10 points on the break tonight- and scored 2. Somewhere Sherman Douglas is frowning.
- Our two diaper dandies, Malachi Richardson and Tyler Lydon, were 4 for 16 from the field and had 4 turnovers. Their first taste of playing Louisville didn’t go very well.
- The worst part: as JB noted, our effort simply lagged in the second half. If one play seemed to symbolize the game it was Mike Gbinije’s missed lay-up at 16:26 of the second half. Louisville had scored 4 in a row to pull away from a 32-32 tie. Gbinije got a great pass from Roberson and was unguarded under the basket. He could have dunked or laid it in form either side. Instead he flipped the ball backwards over his head and over the basket where a Louisville player rushed into the get it Onuaku got a dunk a the other end and it was 32-38 and they were on their way. What the heck was THAT?
- Early on I thought we were in great shape: up 18-6 on a team whose head didn’t seem to be in the game, perhaps because of all their off-the-court problem s and the fact that they can’t play in the past season. Then it all seemed to turn around on one play. We kicked a Louisville pass into the backcourt, (the refs didn’t see it as a kick). Louisville got to the ball first and then passed it to an open guy who hit the three that got them going. Louisville is a pressing team and you can’t set up the press unless the other team has to take the ball in from under the basket. They’d been missing shots and now they’d made one and immediately set up the press. They started getting turnovers and stops. Their energy level increased and they started making shots, which in turn allowed them to set the press up again. That’s how Louisville wins and the reason why they’ve overcome substantial Syracuse leads to win going away so many times over the years.
- JB”s response was to “go small by pulling DaJuan Coleman and Tyler Roberson, which killed our rebounding and led to 17 second chance points. That and our lousy defense led to 50 points in the paint for Louisville, (who was a mediocre 7 for 23 from the arc and nothing from the twilight zone between the arc and the paint- they won the game by going inside.)
- Rick Pitino’s team has success against Jim Boeheim’s teams for two other reasons. One if =s their half-court defense. They are one of those teams that push the envelope on what they are allowed to do on defense, getting up close and personal with shooters and slapping at the ball constantly. Our offense looked beautiful against teams like Wake Forest and Boston College when we got wide-open shots and could drive right to the basket to score. But here somebody was on every shooter and nobody could get to the basket without being fouled. And we didn’t make our fouls shots, so we didn’t make them pay.
- The other reason is that the know how to attack the zone, which often works early in these games and then stops working as the game progresses. In this game, it just kind of evaporated and the Cardinals had their way on every possession. They are an excellent passing team. They had four guys with 4 or more assists, including a pretty one by Onuaku, who seems a much more talented player than his brother. Chinanu had quite a game: 13 points, 15 rebounds, 4 assist and block and steal. He was 6 for 9 from the field and made his only free throw, (in fact, his team’s only successful free throw). He had 1 turnover and 2 fouls. That’s 28 not points in 29 minutes, (38.6 per 40 minutes). Our big guys, Coleman, Roberson and Lydon had a total of 14 net points in 73 minutes.
- What I’ll remember this team the most for is all the missed dunks, lay-ups and tip-ins I’ve seen this year. This was our worst game in this regard. The play-byplay records 5 missed lay-ups and one missed dunk but when we get fouled the missed shot is not recorded. I counted 10 times when a Syracuse player attempted two free throws with no time change in the play-by play. I didn’t count a single three point play, where they made a basket and got one foul shot. That’s 10 missed shots not recorded and virtually all of them were dunks, lay-up and tip-ins, all missed. And we missed 8 of those 20 free throws. Add in the 6 recorded missed lay-ups and dunks and you have a potential 42 points that we converted into 8 points.
- We attempted 21 free throws to 2 but only got +11 points out of it. We also out-scored them 24-21 from the arc. Too bad we lost inside the arc, 22-50.
- Remember those 6 straight games when we didn’t give up a fast break point? We gave up 10 points on the break tonight- and scored 2. Somewhere Sherman Douglas is frowning.
- Our two diaper dandies, Malachi Richardson and Tyler Lydon, were 4 for 16 from the field and had 4 turnovers. Their first taste of playing Louisville didn’t go very well.
- The worst part: as JB noted, our effort simply lagged in the second half. If one play seemed to symbolize the game it was Mike Gbinije’s missed lay-up at 16:26 of the second half. Louisville had scored 4 in a row to pull away from a 32-32 tie. Gbinije got a great pass from Roberson and was unguarded under the basket. He could have dunked or laid it in form either side. Instead he flipped the ball backwards over his head and over the basket where a Louisville player rushed into the get it Onuaku got a dunk a the other end and it was 32-38 and they were on their way. What the heck was THAT?
