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[QUOTE="BlackSquirrels, post: 4126707, member: 742"]
Thanks as always for the recap. This was quite a show. JB has two weeks' worth of whoppers ready. I don't even need to wait for the Gomez hour to have plenty of material for my weekly power rankings for most comical JB statements:

[B]1. On why the defense has been bad, "...we’re halfway though the season with 4 new guys on the front line who had never played together.”[/B]

Hmmm, I wonder why all the forwards who could have returned chose not to.

[B]2. "A few years ago I had a McDonald’s All-American who played 10 minutes a game behind an unknown who played 35. But the McDonald’s All-American became a good player."[/B]

I assume he’s talking about Rakeem Christmas. This is a howler because characterizing Rak as a 10 minutes per game player is somewhat misleading. I checked his game log from that season and he had 8 games where he started and played 3 minutes or less. The average was fattened up by cupcake and games when Fab wasn’t available.

[B]3. We wanted another guard but no one wanted to come here to be the fourth guard.[/B]

OttoinGrotto covered this earlier.

[B]4. Our guards have gotten better at preventing penetration and getting out on the shooters. Interior defense has been a problem.[/B]

LOL! (Part of the guards’ responsibility is keeping the ball out of the interior.)

[B]5. Pittsburgh is usually a good defensive team.[/B]

Their best national defensive efficiency ranking on barttorvik.com during the Capel era is 84.

[B]Honorable mention[/B]

Re: Jimmy’s free throw shooting: “We’ve worked with him and he’s cocking it a bit more.”

Hell yeah!
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