SWC75
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- We played our first game against a good team and passed the test, despite a bad start. We found a combination and strategy that worked against this team and overcame them.
- We’ve had a lot of games over the years where we fell behind and came back and you just had the feeling that if we could just get the lead, we’d never relinquish it. Often that doesn’t happen because we exhaust ourselves in making the comeback and when the other team responds we have nothing left. But with the dept we have this year, we can make comebacks and make them stick.
- Our vaunted bench didn’t look like much in the first half, getting it’s only score on CJ Fair’s tip in at the buzzer. But the bench scoring in the second half was 21-0 in favor of the ‘Cuse. Fair had 12 second half points and a 12/10 double-double while Dion Waiters gave us the sort of explosive scoring burst we could never get last year, scoring 9 straight SU points in 2:33 to take us from 47-42 to 56-45.
- Brandon Triche, who had been playing in low gear stepped it up with an 18 point, 6 assist game. He clearly plays better at the point with Waiters at the shooting guard position than he does with Scoop at the point.
- Kris Joseph continues to play well- smooth and explosive. He had a couple of those drives into the forest we saw too much last year and looks as if he hurt and arm or shoulder on one of them but everybody on the team should get his injuries the way he’s playing. He had 20 points and 10 rebounds in this one, along with three steal. I never bought him as a All-America candidate but he played like one last night.
- Follow the ball and CJ Fair will come into the picture. He may not have the body of a power forward but he puts up the numbers of one because he knows where the ball is- and where it’s going.
- Fab Melo had a fine game with 6 points and 5 blocks, (although two rebounds in 25 minutes isn’t much). One of his blocks was highlight film stuff. He had to turn around to swat a guy making a great move of his won- a spinning, reverse-lay-up.
- We forced 16 turnovers to 9 of our own and outrebounded the Hokies, 32-27. For the season we have out rebounded the opposition by 42, forced 47 more turnovers and gotten off 72 more field goal attempts as a result. The important thing is that those trends didn’t change even though the caliber of opposition improved.
- We’ve had a lot of games over the years where we fell behind and came back and you just had the feeling that if we could just get the lead, we’d never relinquish it. Often that doesn’t happen because we exhaust ourselves in making the comeback and when the other team responds we have nothing left. But with the dept we have this year, we can make comebacks and make them stick.
- Our vaunted bench didn’t look like much in the first half, getting it’s only score on CJ Fair’s tip in at the buzzer. But the bench scoring in the second half was 21-0 in favor of the ‘Cuse. Fair had 12 second half points and a 12/10 double-double while Dion Waiters gave us the sort of explosive scoring burst we could never get last year, scoring 9 straight SU points in 2:33 to take us from 47-42 to 56-45.
- Brandon Triche, who had been playing in low gear stepped it up with an 18 point, 6 assist game. He clearly plays better at the point with Waiters at the shooting guard position than he does with Scoop at the point.
- Kris Joseph continues to play well- smooth and explosive. He had a couple of those drives into the forest we saw too much last year and looks as if he hurt and arm or shoulder on one of them but everybody on the team should get his injuries the way he’s playing. He had 20 points and 10 rebounds in this one, along with three steal. I never bought him as a All-America candidate but he played like one last night.
- Follow the ball and CJ Fair will come into the picture. He may not have the body of a power forward but he puts up the numbers of one because he knows where the ball is- and where it’s going.
- Fab Melo had a fine game with 6 points and 5 blocks, (although two rebounds in 25 minutes isn’t much). One of his blocks was highlight film stuff. He had to turn around to swat a guy making a great move of his won- a spinning, reverse-lay-up.
- We forced 16 turnovers to 9 of our own and outrebounded the Hokies, 32-27. For the season we have out rebounded the opposition by 42, forced 47 more turnovers and gotten off 72 more field goal attempts as a result. The important thing is that those trends didn’t change even though the caliber of opposition improved.
