(POST GAME) @Seton Hall, Mon., Jan. 24, 9p, FS-1

[jr49]

Wasu a fine on man defender and has some good insticts. when he puts it on the floor bad things happen. He's ok bringing it, but right there got to give it up and get in the flow of the offence. 

 

[jr49]

Wheeler was super tonight and best player, but several times Mathis, who has struggled most of season, banged some timely threes to stop the SH run when game was in reach. Clutch! Good for him

Do not think we can count on long range shooting from Mathis or sustained production from Coburn, but what we should be able to count on is what won the game tonight - pressure defense, effort on the boards, sharing the ball - and hopefully more offensive production from Julian.

Excellent job by the coaching staff keeping the team together and having them not only ready to play but playing that well in that atmosphere in that spot in the season.

Hope the aggression and confidence continues - if it does it may turn out that in the immortal words of Denny Green, they are who we thought they were.

Mike will never stop coaching a kid who wants to be a better player and wants to be part of the team. some projects take longer is all.

 

[Knight]

Every Johnnie that played last night had at least one offensive rebound.  Nice.

 

[Delaware]

It looks like CMA read the NY Post article suggesting more opportunities for Coburn and Smith. He inserted them early on, and also brought Posh off the bench. The team chemistry and energy looked better from the start. Coburn hit 2 long threes in the first half, and another in the  second that really finished off S.H.

In the second half, with Champ and Wheeler having foul trouble, CMA had a lineup that looked like a disaster waiting to happen. No shooters on the floor. Instead, that group expanded the lead back to double digits and S.H. never threatened from there.

I had questioned that lineup during the game thread, but in all fairness, it worked out well.

 

[Delaware]

Undefeated when Nyiwe hits a three.

Dare I say our front court has some potential? I’ve loved what Stanley has given us last 3-4 times he’s gotten a chance. Soriano improving and wheeler blossoming.

The three legitimate bigs (Nyiwe, Soriano, and Stanley) each have different limitations that really call for using a rotation that maximizes their effectiveness and limits mismatches for opponent's benefit.     As they progress, Anderson is figuring this out.   Thank God he is a lot more patient, balanced, and smarter than most of us armchair gms who already decided the game has passed him by and he is an interim coach (interim $2 million coach).

It would be nice if he figures these things out earlier rather than later so as not got consistently get in a hole record-wise in the BE every season.

 

[IDRAFT]

I was surprised Williard went with so many smaller lineups after his bigs dominated SJU at MSG. Seemed to me to be an overreaction to our pressing. It's a lot easier to finish at the rim when Obiogu (17 minutes) is on the bench. I remember Hurley making the same mistake with Sanago a year ago (and getting killed on the Boneyard.)

 

[Dan V]

The best part of this win is the silence of the anti-Anderson crew on here. Keep it up fellas.

 

[lawmanfan]

I was surprised Williard went with so many smaller lineups after his bigs dominated SJU at MSG. Seemed to me to be an overreaction to our pressing. It's a lot easier to finish at the rim when Obiogu (17 minutes) is on the bench. I remember Hurley making the same mistake with Sanago a year ago (and getting killed on the Boneyard.)

Game flow did not permit it. Once SJU got out to a lead and was running them he could not go with a big but slow lineup short on ball handlers. Anderson got the game on his terms as opposed to the first game which Willard got on his terms.

I am not always a fan of Anderson's "they're going to have to adjust to us, because we aren't going to adjust to them" approach but it worked in that game.

 

[BrooklynRed]

Realize that Aiken was out but this SH team did not impress in the back-to-back shooting 32% with 37 turnovers.  They need a big infusion of talent next year.

PS--Walsh is still a dump with the stage at one end.  I was there a long time ago.  High school gyms are better.   It makes CA look like a palace.

 

[beast of the east]

I was surprised Williard went with so many smaller lineups after his bigs dominated SJU at MSG. Seemed to me to be an overreaction to our pressing. It's a lot easier to finish at the rim when Obiogu (17 minutes) is on the bench. I remember Hurley making the same mistake with Sanago a year ago (and getting killed on the Boneyard.)

Game flow did not permit it. Once SJU got out to a lead and was running them he could not go with a big but slow lineup short on ball handlers. Anderson got the game on his terms as opposed to the first game which Willard got on his terms.

I am not always a fan of Anderson's "they're going to have to adjust to us, because we aren't going to adjust to them" approach but it worked in that game.

You may not like it, but that's actually the key that makes coaching a chess game. You make your opponent play the game they are least effective at, most uncomfortable. You take away their advantages by making them adapt to you. It isn't all about racehorse basketball and 94 feet of pressure. It's making your opponent play less than his best guys because those guys can't be effective vs. what you are throwing at them.

But you also have to change it up when what you are throwing at them isn't effective.

 

[PharmDJohnnie11]

I was surprised Williard went with so many smaller lineups after his bigs dominated SJU at MSG. Seemed to me to be an overreaction to our pressing. It's a lot easier to finish at the rim when Obiogu (17 minutes) is on the bench. I remember Hurley making the same mistake with Sanago a year ago (and getting killed on the Boneyard.)

Game flow did not permit it. Once SJU got out to a lead and was running them he could not go with a big but slow lineup short on ball handlers. Anderson got the game on his terms as opposed to the first game which Willard got on his terms.

I am not always a fan of Anderson's "they're going to have to adjust to us, because we aren't going to adjust to them" approach but it worked in that game.

You may not like it, but that's actually the key that makes coaching a chess game. You make your opponent play the game they are least effective at, most uncomfortable. You take away their advantages by making them adapt to you. It isn't all about racehorse basketball and 94 feet of pressure. It's making your opponent play less than his best guys because those guys can't be effective vs. what you are throwing at them.

But you also have to change it up when what you are throwing at them isn't effective.

Mike Anderson strikes me as more of a checkers player. 

I think a lot of why we were so dominant yesterday was a mix between our players finally playing well, and them not having their primary ball handler to help with the press. 

Which makes it even more baffling why we didn’t press Saturday when Aiken was out too. 

 

[L J S A]

=13pxMike Anderson strikes me as more of a checkers player. 

You should have kept that one in your back pocket until a game that we didn't completely fluster the opponent and win by more than 20.

 

[beast of the east]

It's hard to believe that was the first mens game at Walsh in 37 years.

 

[bamafan]

It's hard to believe that was the first mens game at Walsh in 37 years.

First BE conference game.

 

[BrookJersey Redmen]

Beast, Walsh holds like 1,300 or so, and I think the BE requires larger venues for BE games. Like Bama said they might play some non-BE games there, maybe all of theirs against lower level teams, I don't know for sure. I am sure their home games against big time teams are at Pru.

My high school gym held about 1,000 and we had a stage at one end too, curtains and all.

Many high school gyms are bigger and I think McDonaugh (sp) at Georgetown is bigger and Providence on campus gym is bigger.

 

 

[usguard]

Thinking Stanley come off the bench would start Coburn @ 6-5 for scoring from deep if he gets his confidence back  and get 20 mins mg and  give us double digit scoring  especially with champ shooting problems 

 

 

[BrooklynRed]

Beast, Walsh holds like 1,700 or so, and I think the BE requires larger venues for BE games. Like Bama said they might play some non-BE games there, maybe all of theirs against lower level teams, I don't know for sure. I am sure their home games against big time teams are at Pru.

Many high school gyms are bigger and I think McDonaugh (sp) at Georgetown is bigger and Providence on campus gym is bigger.



 

Finally, the New York Times had an article about BE college basketball-A Throwback Game for the Big East-about our game at Walsh.  Don't know how to insert it on Redmen.Com but maybe someone not technically challenged could post it.

 

[TonyinFairfield]

This should work:[URL][URL]https://www.nytimes.com/2...-hall-st-johns-walsh-gym.html?referringSource[/URL]=articleShare[/url]
 

 

[BrookJersey Redmen]

Good article, from a local newspaper which almost never covers us for the last two decades. NYT Sports of the Times a shadow of its former self.