SWC75
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- For much of this game it looked like the Notre Dame game all over again. Neither team could score nor could we never pull away from a team we should have defeated easily. The difference is this game had a little spurt near the end that allowed us to take control of the game. That didn’t happen against the Irish and that set us up for the disastrous ending, one which never came tonight.
- We are a team that lives and dies with the zone defense on one end of the court and has no idea how to attack it on the other end. Oh, Jim Boeheim knows how to attack a zone. But he can’t find a way to attack it with these players. We can’t bomb away from the outside. We’ve tried three guys in the high post: Oshae Brissett who can shoot, (but hasn’t been from there before),and drive but who can’t pass; Marek Dolezaj, a superb passer who can neither shoot nor drive and Matthew Moyer who can do none of these things but can rebound, (which he didn’t do tonight: 0 rebounds in 18 minutes). We also don’t have a true point guard. Our troubles against the zone are obvious on film so we will be seeing it many times as we try once again to dig ourselves out of a hole and try to impress the NCAA committee. I doubt they were impressed to night.
- Oshae Brissett is normally good at getting to the foul line and scoring from there. He was 0 for 0 tonight.
- Pitt had bene out-rebounded by an average of 8 rebounds in league games, including 20-39 in their last game at Georgia Tech. But they dominated the boards against us early and were still ahead 14-16 at the half. We won the second half 16-12 but never had a big advantage of the sort we should have had.
- We are a team that lives and dies with the zone defense on one end of the court and has no idea how to attack it on the other end. Oh, Jim Boeheim knows how to attack a zone. But he can’t find a way to attack it with these players. We can’t bomb away from the outside. We’ve tried three guys in the high post: Oshae Brissett who can shoot, (but hasn’t been from there before),and drive but who can’t pass; Marek Dolezaj, a superb passer who can neither shoot nor drive and Matthew Moyer who can do none of these things but can rebound, (which he didn’t do tonight: 0 rebounds in 18 minutes). We also don’t have a true point guard. Our troubles against the zone are obvious on film so we will be seeing it many times as we try once again to dig ourselves out of a hole and try to impress the NCAA committee. I doubt they were impressed to night.
- Oshae Brissett is normally good at getting to the foul line and scoring from there. He was 0 for 0 tonight.
- Pitt had bene out-rebounded by an average of 8 rebounds in league games, including 20-39 in their last game at Georgia Tech. But they dominated the boards against us early and were still ahead 14-16 at the half. We won the second half 16-12 but never had a big advantage of the sort we should have had.
