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- A workmen-like win over a bad team that’s getting better. We took advantage of our physical superiority and dominated as we should have and got to play everybody except Trevor Cooney who they have apparently decided to red shirt. (He could play if needed but they will try to keep him out to claim the redshirt.
- Observations regarding individual players are basically an extension of what we’ve seen in the two exhibitions. Fab Melo is now quick and athletic but his defensive game is more advanced than his offensive game. Baye Moussa Keita had a nice block following a Fordham fast break. Rakeem Christmas had a nice sequence where he twice got rebounds and then scored. He kept moving around his shorter defender to do it. He also scored over his man on a second half play that wasn’t a dunk but got several replays.
Kris Joseph may be in pain but he seems to be playing smoothly. He had 16 points in 27 minutes. CJ Fair can make the three. James Southerland hustled, which pleased his coach enough to mention him in the presser.
- Dion Waiters looked like an adult playing a pick-up game with children. Everything he did he did at will. He had 14 points in 22 minutes. Brandon Triche muscled his way to 7 rebounds. Scoop Jardine doesn’t try to do to much because on this team he doesn’t have to. Michael Carter Williams is a talent freshman but a freshman.
- After being out-rebounded by St. Rose, a much shorter team, we won the boards 43-32 tonight. That’s’ the way it should be. Throw in 11 steals and we’re in business.
- The zone is quite a weapon when you have guards who are 6-4/5, forward who are 6-7 and 6-9 and a 7 foot center, all with long arms and the ability to move constantly. Waiters, who was in the coach’s dog house much of last year for his defense, is a force at the top of the zone and Jardine and Carter-Williams have quick hands. SU opponents this year won’t be able to tell the forest for the trees.
- Observations regarding individual players are basically an extension of what we’ve seen in the two exhibitions. Fab Melo is now quick and athletic but his defensive game is more advanced than his offensive game. Baye Moussa Keita had a nice block following a Fordham fast break. Rakeem Christmas had a nice sequence where he twice got rebounds and then scored. He kept moving around his shorter defender to do it. He also scored over his man on a second half play that wasn’t a dunk but got several replays.
Kris Joseph may be in pain but he seems to be playing smoothly. He had 16 points in 27 minutes. CJ Fair can make the three. James Southerland hustled, which pleased his coach enough to mention him in the presser.
- Dion Waiters looked like an adult playing a pick-up game with children. Everything he did he did at will. He had 14 points in 22 minutes. Brandon Triche muscled his way to 7 rebounds. Scoop Jardine doesn’t try to do to much because on this team he doesn’t have to. Michael Carter Williams is a talent freshman but a freshman.
- After being out-rebounded by St. Rose, a much shorter team, we won the boards 43-32 tonight. That’s’ the way it should be. Throw in 11 steals and we’re in business.
- The zone is quite a weapon when you have guards who are 6-4/5, forward who are 6-7 and 6-9 and a 7 foot center, all with long arms and the ability to move constantly. Waiters, who was in the coach’s dog house much of last year for his defense, is a force at the top of the zone and Jardine and Carter-Williams have quick hands. SU opponents this year won’t be able to tell the forest for the trees.
