(POST GAME) Rider, Tue. Dec. 8, 7p, CBSSN / 570 AM WMCA

1. I hope Mike doesn't take this as his lucky shirt (return it to LL Bean, please they have a forever return policy).

2. If Gillen said one more time, "find Champagnie, he's your go to guy", I wanted to go through the t.v., I like him, but so repetitive.

3. Baggett ripped into his guys ferociously at a T.O., after poor defensive play, good for him, I think he's a good coach.
 
I wasn’t able to watch the game last night. I saw that we won by only three and I read many of the comments here. So it was with great trepidation that I just watched the game. So many things could be said about this game but I think much of it has been covered.

My primary takeaway is that somehow or someway the team better improve its 3 point shooting defense and fast. “Running” out at shooters is really a last ditch effort. Although I appreciate the effort it usually indicates the defender has been beat. How many times did we see an SJU player running out far too late at a shooter who nails the 3 ball? Basically, they are open looks. Complicating factor for SJU is that they are still the gang that can’t shoot straight. Two foot bunnies are a problem. 3 point shots? Not good. No secret that Cole saved our bacon last night as he seemed to get hot at the right time from 3. Otherwise, we will be outscored significantly from 3 by more talented teams. College basketball is a 3 point shooting game and limiting the difference between how many SJU scores versus what they give up is huge. Simple math will tell us it will be hard to win if we are getting beat by 15 points or more on three point shots.
 
Do not think the way we played could be good however you want to slice
Coaching played a part in the debacle we witnessed
Let’s not pretend it was an uplifting game
 
After watching the games this season, I was wondering if CMA needs a Mike Dunlop.
 
[quote="austour" post=407003][quote="James Ray Lamb" post=406924]Earlington was 7-8 FG and 1-2 3-pt
16 points
5 Reb 1 Asst

He is beginning to contribute again. He still needs to clean up his FG. He shouldn't be missing that many.

Team
FG 47.1% that's not acceptable for BE team.
3-pt 27.8% ouch

41 Reb 20 assists[/quote]

Last year only 2 be reams shot over 47% from the floor. The rest were unacceptable. ;)[/quote]
I screwed up that post. Next time I'll think more carefully before posting. I apologize for interrupting the thread.
 
[quote="Knight" post=407082]After watching the games this season, I was wondering if CMA needs a Mike Dunlop.[/quote]

I am sure someone like Mike Dunlap would make a positive contribution to just about any staff. That said, the Mullin/Lavin eras are over. We have a well-rounded basketball coach with a quality staff in place. He will straighten out the obvious holes we are all noticing.
 
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[quote="L J S A" post=407012]I don't think anyone should stress over substitution patterns yet. But maybe I say this because I would do the same thing in preseason. I'd be playing Wusu at center and PF in some of these games, so you guys are lucky I'm not the coach.

As for Toro, not sure what is up. I've watched a lot of A-10 games in my life, and the league is not that bad. Great for Roberts, though. It's like the old joke where two guys are being chased by a tiger, and one guy stops to put on sneakers.

"What are you doing?" says the other man. "Do you think you will run fast than the tiger with those?"

"I don’t have to run faster than the tiger," he says. "I just have to run faster than you."[/quote]

That reminds me of the time the 2 guys hopped one fence at the SF Zoo to get closer to the Tigers enclosure so they could taunt the tigers with a slingshot (they denied this). What they didn't count on was that a tiger could easily scale a 14 foot wall that separated them from the tiger. They bolted to a nearby closed concession (it was night time), and tried to barricade themselves in. The tiger followed them and killed one of them. Good for the tiger.
 
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Last nights game was a perfect example of the problems facing Coach Anderson. A major part of SJUs success is its pressure defense which makes up for its poor half court offense. Rider was a team rated near the three hundred mark but had a backcourt man who could get the ball past half court and get open threes for his teammates vs the SJU switching defenses. SJU has to be more selective who it presses and when it
presses When the great ball handler sits then you press.
Big East teams will have. better ball handlers. than OOC teams. so that makes pressure defense less successful and Cole and company are going to have to make outside shots in the. half. court game.
 
This thread feels like arguing with myself. On one hand there is the belief that we are training opponents to realize that if they make the extra pass they will wind up with the ball in the hands of their best three point shooter in his favorite spot and in good rebounding position if by some quirk of fate he should miss.

On the other hand (as a Celtics fan since 1957) I am reminded that the Celtics would lure opponents into offensive patterns early in the game which they would then take away in crunch time, particularly Dominique Wilkins. Get the whole offense except for one player standing around and not expecting the ball, and then double and triple team the one player in the end of the game. With the new big on board and Dunn back, maybe we are aiming for the latter.
 
[quote="BrookJersey Redmen" post=407043]1. I hope Mike doesn't take this as his lucky shirt (return it to LL Bean, please they have a forever return policy).

2. If Gillen said one more time, "find Champagnie, he's your go to guy", I wanted to go through the t.v., I like him, but so repetitive.

3. Baggett ripped into his guys ferociously at a T.O., after poor defensive play, good for him, I think he's a good coach.[/quote]

Gillen was all over the place on that broadcast.

My favorite was when he was praising Rider for "holding" us to 4 offensive rebounds in the first 15 or so minutes of the second half (it wound up being 6 in the end), after we got 12 in the first half.

Of course, he didn't mention that a big reason for our offensive rebound total going down, is because we shot 63% from the field in the second half, compared to 35% in the first half. Those offensive rebounds were replaced by made baskets, so Rider didn't do anything to deserve praise, in that regard.
 
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