SWC75
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- Déjà vu all over again. The basketball team looks good against non-power conference teams but can’t compete with power conference teams. Maybe we can beat Duke….
- We got out-rebounded 28-57. I don’t care how young and skinny we are. There’s no excuse for that. Oklahoma State was big and strong, too but they out-rebounded us only 31-39. Bourama Sidibie, our “big man” got pone more rebound than a dead man, (and that may be what JB was saying to him on the bench in one shot). Matt Park said in the pre-game interview that we “have a problem with strong teams”. JB responded: “What? No we don’t. We’re fine there.” (?!?)
- We shot 34% against Oklahoma State and 33% against Penn State. We were 14 for 53 from three point range (26%) and 23 for 57 inside the arc, (40.4%).
- We had a 21-3 stretch against Oklahoma State and a 20-5 stretch against Penn State. Neither mattered. OSU wo n the rest of the first half 10-29 and PSU, who had been 4 for 19 from the arc, hit 4 for 5 to retake control of the game.
- Joe Girard, Mr. 50 points a game, was 4 for 20 in Brooklyn, including 1 for 11 from three point range.
- Buddy Boeheim was 7 for 27 in the two games, 4 for 15 from three.
- Elijah Hughes was productive when he got the ball but he didn’t get it much down the stretch of this one. Jimmy Satalin kept yelling for our guys to “set some screens for him”.
- Quincy Guerrier played hard and had a good game but there are times he looks like Joe Frazier diving into the pool at the Super Stars competition. He has spent so much time playing on the perimeter that he doesn’t year know how to move his body in the paint. He’ll be great when he figures it out.
- We could actually lose to Penn State AND Georgetown this season.
- JB said it best in his post-game interview with Matt Park: “We make bad decisions, miss shots and we don’t get rebounds. That’s a bad combination.” Sure is.
- We missed 11 free throws in each game. We lost by more than that but both games would have bene much closer and the strategies employed much different if we’d made them. When you are constantly trying to make a comeback, missed free throws are agonizing.
- We got out-rebounded 28-57. I don’t care how young and skinny we are. There’s no excuse for that. Oklahoma State was big and strong, too but they out-rebounded us only 31-39. Bourama Sidibie, our “big man” got pone more rebound than a dead man, (and that may be what JB was saying to him on the bench in one shot). Matt Park said in the pre-game interview that we “have a problem with strong teams”. JB responded: “What? No we don’t. We’re fine there.” (?!?)
- We shot 34% against Oklahoma State and 33% against Penn State. We were 14 for 53 from three point range (26%) and 23 for 57 inside the arc, (40.4%).
- We had a 21-3 stretch against Oklahoma State and a 20-5 stretch against Penn State. Neither mattered. OSU wo n the rest of the first half 10-29 and PSU, who had been 4 for 19 from the arc, hit 4 for 5 to retake control of the game.
- Joe Girard, Mr. 50 points a game, was 4 for 20 in Brooklyn, including 1 for 11 from three point range.
- Buddy Boeheim was 7 for 27 in the two games, 4 for 15 from three.
- Elijah Hughes was productive when he got the ball but he didn’t get it much down the stretch of this one. Jimmy Satalin kept yelling for our guys to “set some screens for him”.
- Quincy Guerrier played hard and had a good game but there are times he looks like Joe Frazier diving into the pool at the Super Stars competition. He has spent so much time playing on the perimeter that he doesn’t year know how to move his body in the paint. He’ll be great when he figures it out.
- We could actually lose to Penn State AND Georgetown this season.
- JB said it best in his post-game interview with Matt Park: “We make bad decisions, miss shots and we don’t get rebounds. That’s a bad combination.” Sure is.
- We missed 11 free throws in each game. We lost by more than that but both games would have bene much closer and the strategies employed much different if we’d made them. When you are constantly trying to make a comeback, missed free throws are agonizing.
