Marquette Game

An absolutely outstanding performance by Sir Dom, defense, offense, rebounding and blocks. Jordan made some real nice passes and assists. Sure he throws the ball away sometimes but he takes the chances which any good point guard will do. Playing under control as far as I am concerned.
Obekpa better not switch off Okafor on Sunday, has to stick to him like glue.
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Temple played him somewhat effectively at times using their athleticism. Seems to me that something similar to St. Mary's will be necessary and having Obekpa sticking him might be a recipe for disaster IMHO.

Duke is beatable just not sure that we have enough legs or sad to say it, heart. Really disappointed with getting outhustled lately when this team was excelling at it early in the season.
 
Sometime the other team is hot.
Sometime the refs make the difference.
Sometimes you just meet a significantly better team. However,
I think the ebb and flow of board frustration the last two games is that we really are better by a lot than either DePaul or Marquette when we just play decently, not even well. .
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Better than Creighton also.
Unfortunately, the other 6 teams are all better than SJU.
 
Beating Duke would be huge and is doable in our building. It's our Garden, but to do it D'Lo must be at full strength. He needs to rest that leg. Good win today. Doesn't matter how it happens. This is a pretty good SJU team when we want to be. We aren't remotely out of anything. We have 4 losses and the first place team has 2. Much less room for error now.
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On a positive note Amar showed he could be a competent backup ,which we desperately needed. I think the key to the season is how Fast DLOs leg heals.If he was healthy we would be 3-3 in BE. We aren't going anywhere without him. But if he regains his old form, you never know.
 
Ill take the win.


Cant put pointer on carlino earlier, he was too valuable elsewhere. And there was no problem with Carlino in the first half, but good adjustment by Lavin after the 4 threes.

Great spark by branch in second half. Jordan played great for most of the game, still had a few head-scratching decisions.

Sir Dom was incredible defensively all game and for a large portion of the game offensively, the whole team needs to eliminate these long scoring droughts where there is no movement and they launch jumpers.

They need to learn that they don't need to settle for jumpers early on the shot clock, especially on the first half of games

They are going to need to shoot lights out o have a chance on Sunday
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I think the switch on Carlino needed to happen sooner; D'Lo was clearly hobbled.

D'Lo aside, we actually shot the ball very well tonight. But virtually no points off the bench as usual...
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I don't know what game you were watching. We shot 37.7% from the field and 27.3% from three point range. The only problem switching Dom to Carlino earlier resulted in Harrison guarding Taylor who scored 13 points.
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"D'Lo aside, we actually shot the ball very well tonight."

Translation: take D'Lo's 3 for 18 out of the equation and the other St. John's players went 19 for 42 (a respectable 45%) against Marquette. You are welcome!
 
Nice win.

Sure, it was ugly at times, from both team's perspectives , but this was a good experience as a fan. That's all I'm looking for.
Theres still plenty to worry about (this looked eerily similar to the team that lost to both Butler and DePaul), but we can enjoy the win for tonight at least.
 
By the way just in case anybody thought this issue was dead:
Coach was back to looking like a cross betweven a club bouncer and a priest (minus the collar).
 
Ill take the win.


Cant put pointer on carlino earlier, he was too valuable elsewhere. And there was no problem with Carlino in the first half, but good adjustment by Lavin after the 4 threes.

Great spark by branch in second half. Jordan played great for most of the game, still had a few head-scratching decisions.

Sir Dom was incredible defensively all game and for a large portion of the game offensively, the whole team needs to eliminate these long scoring droughts where there is no movement and they launch jumpers.

They need to learn that they don't need to settle for jumpers early on the shot clock, especially on the first half of games

They are going to need to shoot lights out o have a chance on Sunday
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I think the switch on Carlino needed to happen sooner; D'Lo was clearly hobbled.

D'Lo aside, we actually shot the ball very well tonight. But virtually no points off the bench as usual...
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I don't know what game you were watching. We shot 37.7% from the field and 27.3% from three point range. The only problem switching Dom to Carlino earlier resulted in Harrison guarding Taylor who scored 13 points.
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"D'Lo aside, we actually shot the ball very well tonight."

Translation: take D'Lo's 3 for 18 out of the equation and the other St. John's players went 19 for 42 (a respectable 45%) against Marquette. You are welcome!
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That's why I said to bench him earlier . When Branch came in w Sheed and Greene ,we looked good. No need to play an injured ineffective, DLO so many minutes. Fortunately we pulled it out.
 
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We are pretty close to Butler, Xavier and Providence.
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but not better.
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Are you the same super fan mod that attended the Providence gams where we were better?
Relax! We all know our team is razor thin and we all know why. Every game will be a struggle because this conference is so balanced. Our losses came when either Jordan or Harrison have had issues. Tonight Harrison had the worst shooting night of his career and we pulled it out. Enjoy the win.
We need to finish in the top 6 to have a chance in the Big East tourney. Anything after is gravy. We are what we are.
 
By the way just in case anybody thought this issue was dead:
Coach was back to looking like a cross betweven a club bouncer and a priest (minus the collar).
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I honestly think it was just one of those under armour cold gear undershirts. UA must be paying him a lot to wear them
 
I thought D Lo played too many minutes. He has got to be really hurting. Still, got to give Lavin some credit. He benched D Lo in the second half and there was an immediate improvement. However, with the game on the line the last few minutes, he puts D Lo back in who hits a huge 3 and then seals the game from the line.
 
I just got back from the Garden. Very happy we won. I thought Dom was magnificent. His rebounding, assists, shot blocking and his shut down defense on Carlino was the difference tonight.

That said I thought Lavin coached one of his worst games in his run here. He just didn't seem to have his pulse on the game at all. His use of his bench and lack of substitutions were awful. First and foremost D'Angelo while incredibly courageous and full of heart (for being out there while hurt) was clearly so injured that he was our weakest link tonight. How he wound up playing 35 minutes when Branch played just 13 minutes was foolhardy and could have cost us the game. We played our best ball when D'Angelo was out of the game. During the four minute stretch he sat out we went from being down 43-38 to up 48-46. That 10 to 3 run was critical to our victory. This was so obvious to me and everybody sitting around me. I don't know what game our coach was watching and why it took him so long to get that lineup on the floor.

Additionally D'Angelo was unable to guard Carlino because D'Lo was so hurt and the switch to Dom defensively happened way too late.

Lastly I did not think the foul on Carlino with 11 seconds left made sense. Why give up two points there? Why give Pointer a fourth foul(that could have doomed us if the game went to OT). In the end they still wound up putting up a potential tying three at the buzzer anyway.

On another note. We are going to struggle if Harrison does not get better soon. Tonight was an opportunity to rest him a bit instead of letting him play thirty five minutes when playing Branch much more made total sense. Lavin's use of his bench tonight was hard to fathom at all.

Anyway I was thrilled we won and on to Duke. Hopefully we will open up our bench a bit more and not put so much pressure on our star when he is so banged up that he is limping on the court.
 
By the way just in case anybody thought this issue was dead:
Coach was back to looking like a cross betweven a club bouncer and a priest (minus the collar).
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Since we need a little help from above he went with the Father Maher look. They actually could be brothers they look so close. I didn't mind it personally
 
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