SWC75
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- The operation was a success- and that’s what it felt like. Matt Park said that both teams were playing as if they’d been awakened at 2AM to play the game. Why a competitive basketball player who knows the season is on the line with every game because of the game we’ve let get away could come out and play as badly as this team did I will never understand. Watching this team even in the wins is no fun. I watched parts of the North Carolina state win over UNC, the Virginia victory over Duke and Alabama beating Oklahoma and they all played real basketball as I’ve come to know it. Today we would have had no chance against any of those teams.
- Two of our “Big three”, Oshae Brissett and frank Howard, were a combined 6 for 26 from the field. (23%).
- Brissett’s game is to get to the foul line. he was 0 for 0.
- Bourama Sidibie had an amazing game but he made two amazing mistakes down the stretch: fouling a three point shooter while we were trying to protect a single digit lead. The last came when we’d finally pushed the lead to 9 with 30 seconds left. He fouled an 80% shooter who quickly made it was a 6 point game. . OMG and What? Freshmen are freshmen but really…If you are going to do that, you’d better get 18 points and 16 rebounds.
- Paschal Chukwu had 6 rebounds and 3 blocks but his new found offensive game was lost again. He was 0 for 4, mostly on shots he babied when he could have dunked them.
- We are 8 for 33 from the arc in the two games, (24%). I don’t remember many of them that weren’t open. If we’d made a normal percentage, both game would have bene easy victories.
- Really, they were similar games. We just couldn’t pull away and seemed to be begging Pitt to give us a damaging loss. In the first game we got a short burst of quality play midway through the second half that gave us a lead Pitt wasn’t good enough to challenge. In this game it was a good minute or so near the very end. We should have dominated both games, wire to wire.
- This year’s team is the opposite of last year’s team in most respects but they in similar in one way: we seem to be a different team on the road than at home. Most teams are but the difference between the BC game and this was stark. That wake Forest loss sticks out. We played well in the second half vs. Florida State but not in the first half. Even the Kansas game doesn’t look like a very strong performance now. Georgia Tech, Louisville, Duke, Miami and Boston College await.
- We got the win we needed to keep our NCAA dreams alive but if we don’t get our offense going with some consistency, it’s going to remain just a dream.
- Two of our “Big three”, Oshae Brissett and frank Howard, were a combined 6 for 26 from the field. (23%).
- Brissett’s game is to get to the foul line. he was 0 for 0.
- Bourama Sidibie had an amazing game but he made two amazing mistakes down the stretch: fouling a three point shooter while we were trying to protect a single digit lead. The last came when we’d finally pushed the lead to 9 with 30 seconds left. He fouled an 80% shooter who quickly made it was a 6 point game. . OMG and What? Freshmen are freshmen but really…If you are going to do that, you’d better get 18 points and 16 rebounds.
- Paschal Chukwu had 6 rebounds and 3 blocks but his new found offensive game was lost again. He was 0 for 4, mostly on shots he babied when he could have dunked them.
- We are 8 for 33 from the arc in the two games, (24%). I don’t remember many of them that weren’t open. If we’d made a normal percentage, both game would have bene easy victories.
- Really, they were similar games. We just couldn’t pull away and seemed to be begging Pitt to give us a damaging loss. In the first game we got a short burst of quality play midway through the second half that gave us a lead Pitt wasn’t good enough to challenge. In this game it was a good minute or so near the very end. We should have dominated both games, wire to wire.
- This year’s team is the opposite of last year’s team in most respects but they in similar in one way: we seem to be a different team on the road than at home. Most teams are but the difference between the BC game and this was stark. That wake Forest loss sticks out. We played well in the second half vs. Florida State but not in the first half. Even the Kansas game doesn’t look like a very strong performance now. Georgia Tech, Louisville, Duke, Miami and Boston College await.
- We got the win we needed to keep our NCAA dreams alive but if we don’t get our offense going with some consistency, it’s going to remain just a dream.
