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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 4536626, member: 289"] - It’s another win. I heard a discussion on the radio of what wins were ‘must’ wins. They concluded that we need to beat the teams ranked ahead of us to impress the NCAA committee and that we need to beat the teams ranked behind us to avoid damaging our reputation with the committee. In other words, they are all must wins. I doubt JB has ever addressed his team and told them they don’t need to win a game because it doesn’t matter. Oh, and four more regular season wins and we’ve started a new ‘streak’. - Once again the press turned around a game that was going against us. We’ve played the best basketball we’ve played all year when we press. You can’t just measure it by turnovers. It energizes our team on both ends and speeds the other team up so they make mistakes and miss shots. That press could get us to the NCAA tournament if we used it proactively rather reactively, when we are way behind. Why wait until then? - The other thing that turned the game around was that we replaced unproductive players with productive players. Benny Williams was 0 for 3 and scored 1 points. Malik Brown was 8 for 9 and scored 18 points. It wasn’t complicated. Big men score when they stay around the basket and go an get the ball, not when they float around and jack up three pointers. - Chris Bell scored 2 points in 18 minutes and Quadir Copeland scored 2 points in 17 minutes. But Quadir got 6 rebounds and Chris got his number: 0. - Joe Girard is playing like an All-American. The key is that he’s not just setting himself up as a catch-and-shoot three point guy. He’s learned to drive to the basket, back guys down, pull up and fade away for jumpers. He scored 28 pints on 6 treys and 5 deuxs. He also had 5 rebounds, (two more than our starting forwards) and 7 assists. - Jesse Edwards was taken out for the press because JB is afraid he’ll foul out. He put Hima in and he proved to be the perfect anchor of the press. Jesse them came back and committed 3 fouls in 27 minutes but made 6 of 9 shots, scored 14 points with 7 rebs and 3 blocks. - Judah Mintz continued to struggle for much of the game, missing 4 free throws. But he looked more like his old self at the end, winding up with 13 points, 6 assists 3 rebs, 2 steals and a block. - From the cheers there seemed to be more SU fans there than Tech fans. 13-7 with 11+ to go LET’S GO ORANGE!!! [/QUOTE]

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