[quote="Room112" post=306016][quote="richard A Steinfeld" post=306013][quote="redken" post=305990][quote="Mean Gene" post=305904][quote="redken" post=305900][quote="johnny redman" post=305852] ... Mullin really loves St Johns this cant be said for some of our posters. ...[/quote]
Think you might want to reconsider that statement. Regardless of any bitching or moaning -- something we're all guilty of at times -- I can't think of a single poster on who doesn't love SJU basketball and who and lives and dies with the team.[/quote]
Agreed Redken, I think the reason why some of us are so wound up so early on this season is because of our week OOC schedule. We all know that in order for this team to reach their goal of an NCAA Tournament berth they really can’t afford a loss OOC to lesser team. It could potentially be devastating. I just want to get through this early OOC schedule unscathed so that will gives us the team the easiest path towards reaching their goals. Otherwise , it pretty much either win the Big East or Big East Tournament or beat Duke to make up for for that horrible OOC loss. I don’t want to see us in that position. So far so good, love the fight in this team. We need Heron , Figgy and Clark to be more consistent. I know they won’t be lights out every game but we need a consistent level of play from night in and night out. Ponds can’t play hero every game. I think Trimble will find his game again when Keita comes back and Roberts get more experience so he can go back to the role that was originally meant for him. Not battling 6’10 guys down low.[/quote]
Hate to say it -- and I hope I'm wrong -- but unless Keita, who's a question mark, and/or Roberts, who's an even bigger question mark, gives us some serious defensive help inside, we're going to have big problems once the "real season" begins. As I stated elsewhere, the of loss of Owens was a huge blow.[/quote] Your correct, as usual the lack of bigs is a our achellis heal. Untill Keata returns Clark is going to have to be careful w fouling. He shouldn’t be going for steals and no excuse for fouling away from basket. Let’s hope we get a healthy Keata back by BE time.[/quote]
Call me crazy, but I believe the whole lack of a big man thing is overblown. Just look at the Georgia Tech stats, we had 10 offensive rebounds which is two more than them.
Additionally, every single game we have a huge advantage in forced turnovers. Because of all of our guards, we are able to create those turnovers and get plenty of steals.
Also, what we lack in an inside game, we have a huge advantage at the three point arc. Just about our whole rotation is a legit three point threat.[/quote]
I think you minimize challenge of undersized guys like Clark getting into foul trouble guarding legitimate bigs (with nothing behind him until Keita returns) & bigger post guys kicking out on collapsing defenses for very good perimeter three point looks. Not the end of the world, but something that can’t be easily dismissed either imo.
Think you might want to reconsider that statement. Regardless of any bitching or moaning -- something we're all guilty of at times -- I can't think of a single poster on who doesn't love SJU basketball and who and lives and dies with the team.[/quote]
Agreed Redken, I think the reason why some of us are so wound up so early on this season is because of our week OOC schedule. We all know that in order for this team to reach their goal of an NCAA Tournament berth they really can’t afford a loss OOC to lesser team. It could potentially be devastating. I just want to get through this early OOC schedule unscathed so that will gives us the team the easiest path towards reaching their goals. Otherwise , it pretty much either win the Big East or Big East Tournament or beat Duke to make up for for that horrible OOC loss. I don’t want to see us in that position. So far so good, love the fight in this team. We need Heron , Figgy and Clark to be more consistent. I know they won’t be lights out every game but we need a consistent level of play from night in and night out. Ponds can’t play hero every game. I think Trimble will find his game again when Keita comes back and Roberts get more experience so he can go back to the role that was originally meant for him. Not battling 6’10 guys down low.[/quote]
Hate to say it -- and I hope I'm wrong -- but unless Keita, who's a question mark, and/or Roberts, who's an even bigger question mark, gives us some serious defensive help inside, we're going to have big problems once the "real season" begins. As I stated elsewhere, the of loss of Owens was a huge blow.[/quote] Your correct, as usual the lack of bigs is a our achellis heal. Untill Keata returns Clark is going to have to be careful w fouling. He shouldn’t be going for steals and no excuse for fouling away from basket. Let’s hope we get a healthy Keata back by BE time.[/quote]
Call me crazy, but I believe the whole lack of a big man thing is overblown. Just look at the Georgia Tech stats, we had 10 offensive rebounds which is two more than them.
Additionally, every single game we have a huge advantage in forced turnovers. Because of all of our guards, we are able to create those turnovers and get plenty of steals.
Also, what we lack in an inside game, we have a huge advantage at the three point arc. Just about our whole rotation is a legit three point threat.[/quote]
I think you minimize challenge of undersized guys like Clark getting into foul trouble guarding legitimate bigs (with nothing behind him until Keita returns) & bigger post guys kicking out on collapsing defenses for very good perimeter three point looks. Not the end of the world, but something that can’t be easily dismissed either imo.