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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 895451, member: 289"] - I had hopes that this team would be a Syracuse team that could hang with the Panthers on the boards. We actually did, except for a long, disheartening stretch in the second half. From 14:28 when Ennis hit a three pointer to give us a brief double figure lead at 37-27, though 2:39 when Jerami Grant hit a couple of free throws, we were outscored 12-25 because we were out-rebounded 5-15 over that stretch. - We had 4 offensive rebounds in the entire game compared to 16 for Pittsburgh. The Panthers had 19 second chance points to 2. Ugh and double Ugh. - Jerami Grant has long arms and long talent but all it got him was 4 rebounds in 40 minutes of play. That’s one every 10 minutes. - Rakeem Christmas also had only four rebounds but he only played 29 minutes. Baye Keita, the guy who seemed least physically equipped to deal with the Panthers, got 3 in only 11 minutes. But twice he had rebounds pulled out of his hands into a tie-ups. - It wasn’t just on the Pitt end where they visitors rebounded 16 of their 36 misses (44.4%). It was on our end where we got only 4 of our 23 misses, (17.4%). As Boeheim said, it was the first time all year we’ve been so badly out-rebounded. Granted, Pitt is a very brawny team but so much of rebounding is just plain effort and for a long stretch they had a lot more of it than we did. - We only forced 11 turnovers. With 9 of our own, we also lost in the “manufactured possession” stat, (one team’s rebounds plus the other’s turnovers), that we’ve dominated all year, 35-44. - Trevor Cooney had another of-shooting night, 2-8, all threes. He’s back to just being a perimeter shooter. His two makes were big ones but he also missed a couple of answering treys while Patterson was going off in the second half. - Every year we hear how Pitt has a great record but they haven't played anybody. And that never emans anything. [/QUOTE]

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