The Upside- Colgate | Syracusefan.com

The Upside- Colgate

SWC75

Bored Historian
Joined
Aug 26, 2011
Messages
34,116
Like
65,976
- W>>>>>>>>L If we go on to a good season, people will little note nor long remember this.

- Beating Colgate by 2 points is better than beating Le Moyne by 4 points. I guess we’re getting a little better. Hopefully we can keep improving from game to game.

- A word about Eddie Lampkin. This kid is getting pummeled by callers into radio shows for his lousy defense. I saw a guy who defended the paint pretty well, looking like Arinze Onuaku, keeping his big body in front of them. What people are complaining about is opposing players driving from the top of the key all the way to the basket, (which happened a lot vs. Le Moyne but not much tonight) and fast breaks that go all the way to basket, which are not normally the center’s responsibility as he’s your slowest player and the one playing closest to the basket. I think the defensive weaknesses are much more about the forwards and guards than Eddie, who is also dealing with a back problem. Despite the that, the guy scored 15 points, pulled down 12 rebounds and had 5 assists, with 24 ”Net Points”. Eddie is NOT our problem.

- Chris Bell was being shut out at halftime. Then he got a dunk on a feed by Lampkin and turned it into a three point play and went on to score 14 second half points, even though he only hit one three pointer. Colgate made sure to take that away. He said after the game that he didn’t want to take a bad shot. He still was our second leading scorer by going to the basket or pulling up for shots. He also was one of our best defenders and is becoming one of our best all-around players.

- Jyare Davis shot poorly but had 9 rebounds. He was only credited with 1 assist but I remember a great pass to Lampkin for a lay-up and remarkable cross court pass that seemed to go past several defender’s ears. I don’t recall whether the shot went in but it was a great pass.

- Elijah Moore missed all three treys but hit four other shots and added some energy to the team when we needed it. He also had three assists and a steal and I noticed at one point he was bringing the ball up as the point guard. People think he’s a shooter but he may be a better all-around player than we realize.

- We dominated the boards for most of the game, (33-23 when we had that 53-40 lead), but let that slip a bit, 12-13 down the stretch. We also only and 7 turnovers in a fast-paced game.

- Petar Majstorovic has only play 11 minutes in two games but he has 9 points, 4 rebounds, an assist and a steal. And he plays defense!

- I still wonder if Chance Westry, who looks very similar to Quadir Copeland in his Auburn highlights, might be the answer at the point. He was finally seen in uniform tonight but watched the game from the bench.



2-0 and 29+ to go

LET’S GO ORANGE!
 
Net Points

This year I’m going to make things a bit easier on myself and just list the net points in each game after the Upside. Once a month I’ll do a deeper dive into the numbers rather than doing a “Net Points, etc.” post after every game. ‘Net’ points are the positives (points, rebounds, assists, steals and blocks) minus the negatives, (missed field goals and free throws, turnovers and fouls committed).

Eddie Lampkin game: 24NP in 34 minutes season: 32NP in 53 minutes = 24.2NP/40m
Chris Bell game: 14NP in 34 minutes season: 25NP in 67 minutes = 14.9NP/40m
Jyare Davis game: 9NP in 25 minutes season: 41NP in 51 minutes = 32.1NP/40m
Jaquan Carlos game: 8NP in 30 minutes season: 11NP in 66 minutes = 6.7NP/40m
JJ Starling game: 7NP in 23 minutes season: 19NP in 61 minutes = 12.5NP/40m
Elijah Moore game: 6NP in 19 minutes season: 6NP in 21 minutes = 11.4NP/40m
Donnie Freeman game: 6NP in 15 minutes season: 15NP in 44 minutes = 13.6NP/40m
Petar Majstorovic game: 5NP in 6 minutes season: 7NP in 11 minutes + 25.5NP/40m
Lucas Taylor game: 4NP in 11 minutes season: 7NP in 23 minutes = 12.2NP/40m
Kyle Cuffe game: 0NP in 3 minutes season: 0NP in 3 minutes = 0.0NP/40m
 
I think most Syracuse fans, after generations of centers expected only to block shots on defense in the middle of a zone, don't know what a center is supposed to do on defense.

Lampkin isn't much of a shot blocker, and he certainly isn't one of dozens of guys JB recruited just to set picks and block shots.

He's done ok on defense.

I'd like to see defensive rotations tighten up, a lot. Some of that is on Lampkin, some of it is that the perimeter players are being beaten so quickly nobody could rotate quickly enough to stop the drive.

Cox really made our guards look like traffic cones at times last night.

Red's defensive strategy of "make them shoot twos" would be much more effective with a shotblocker back there that could make two pointers a much lower percentage shot. Freeman getting the hang of the defensive rotations would help, but we really need good challenges from all of our front court.

I wish we could find a decent shotblocking center...
 

Forum statistics

Threads
170,843
Messages
4,912,227
Members
6,007
Latest member
Rusros

Online statistics

Members online
341
Guests online
2,436
Total visitors
2,777


...
Top Bottom