Georgetown (MSG), Sat., Mar. 9, 12 Noon, FOX

[espken]

SJU 39-35 at the half.
Jenkins 13 pts
Ledlum, Alleyne 6 pts

 

[MJDinkins]

Taylor again doing little things like deflecting, winning play guy w/o fanfare

I would've long placed Taylor on Epps.

 

[Silly Donovan]

Soriano can’t hold on to the ball. Never realized how weak his hands are.

 

[romiSJU]

Put Taylor on Epps second half saw how he couldn’t get passed him on last play

This

 

[NCJohnnie]

Georgetown badly outrebounding us 17-10. No way that should happen again. Gotta bring it effort wise second half.

 

[sjc88]

Plain and simple. This comes down to defense,defense,defense. Pretty much the story of the season.

 

[Larry Wright]

Once in awhile would be nice if Dunlap hit a wide open jumper or the Dunlap is a good shooter thing needs to go away

 

[Shannon]

Once in awhile would be nice if Dunlap hit a wide open jumper or the Dunlap is a good shooter thing needs to go away

He had one attempt, give me a break.

 

[MJDinkins]

Georgetown badly outrebounding us 17-10. No way that should happen again. Gotta bring it effort wise second half.

I will say a few of those were either long rebounds or Soriano not being able to fully corral the ball before losing it to a Hoya.

 

[Boo Harvey]

let's get Zuby in. Joel not bringjng it today

Unfortunately Joel hasn’t brought it since January

 

[paultzman]

9/15 on FTs but shooting 60%, weird. We also are being outrebounded 17-10 & 7-2 on O rebounds

 

[Money]

Luis is the lowest IQ player we have had since????? Really hope he takes his talents elsewhere next season!

 

[SJU61982]

9/15 on FTs but shooting 60%, weird. We also are being outrebounded

Soriano 1/6 from the line. The rest of the team is 8/9.

 

[RedStormRising]

Well we should be up by like 18 but we’re are where we are. G’town is lousy the fact that it’s this close is not a good sign.

The question is does Rick put his ego aside and stop with the Luis/Dunlap/Conway experiment or does he keep the hustle players like Taylor ans Allenye on the bench? Will he continue to feed sariano even though he is struggling from the line (which he should do at least at the start of the half)?

Thankfully, Jenkins early heroics gave us a cushion. And we stopped that stupid press. We have the players we have the skill do win by 25. Unfortunately, no one not named Jenkins can define their role on this team. It causes unnecessary struggles. Frustrating.

 

[Mean Gene]

A very mediocre half by us. I love this team but honestly, they don’t deserve to be anywhere near an NCAA Tournament game with this type of effort today. Getting out-rebounded 17-10 with Cook having two fouls. Rebounding is all effort. Even if we do squeak this one out, if anyone thinks they can come out like this against Seton Hall in the BET and win is dreaming. One thing Seton Hall will do is give 1000% effort for 40 minutes regardless of score.

 

[Rocket]

Soriano can’t hold on to the ball. Never realized how weak his hands are.

When they feed him the ball he holds it for an eternity until he's doubled and even then tries to score. MENTAL MENTAL MENTAL.

 

[lawmanfan]

Second half keys

- move the ball on offense, way too much one on one play in the first half.

- try playing some defense, Tayor on Epps is a plus matchup for us.

- make free throws

 

[paultzman]

A very mediocre half by us. I love this team but honestly, they don’t deserve to be anywhere near an NCAA Tournament game with this type of effort today. Getting out-rebounded 17-10 with Cook having two fouls. Rebounding is all effort. Even if we do squeak this one out, if anyone thinks they can come out like this against Seton Hall in the BET and win is dreaming. One thing Seton Hall will do is give 1000% effort for 40 minutes regardless of score.

Excellent point on SH consistent effort

 

[mattc]

We’ll be fine. Foul trouble hurt us. Soriano missed 5 free throws. Epps will cool off. Not particularly worried.

 

[espken]

First and foremost, win the damn game.
Hate to piss a way a first round bye next week.