[quote="SJU11phd" post=304816][quote="Jack Williams" post=304806][quote="SJU11phd" post=304100][quote="newsman13" post=304060][quote="Marillac" post=303955]I think this schedule is a thing of beauty. I don't believe we are a very good team but I see the signs of us becoming one. VCU is as good of a team as we could have beaten at this stage (if we weren't absolutely on fire).
We've been tested with a big man from BG, solid guards, and now a pressing team. Throw in the last minute close game experience and that is all you can ask for.
I'm looking forward to some cupcakes before and after Ga Tech to get Roberts and Williams some experience and for our guys to gel more. Just gotta survive that Ga Tech game.[/quote]
VCU won 18 games last year and have some good players back...plus some transfers.
This was a good win.[/quote]
Strongly disagree. They were picked to finish towards the bottom of the A10 which will probably be a 1 bid league this year, and aren't even a top 100 Kenpom team. This would have been a bad loss. Thankfully we pulled it out.[/quote]
So you say it would've been a bad loss but yet called Ponds performance "embarrassing"? Does it occur to you that if Ponds didn't do what he did we would be 4-1 right now? You can't have it both ways, being happy we won but yet trashing the only reason we did win. Ponds should have gotten Fig a couple more looks but that is it. Heron and Clark were not hitting. If Ponds had 23 points instead of 35 and passed it a couple more possessions, we would have lost. If you actually thing Ponds is an embarrassment, wait till next year when he's gone, you'll be begging for him back[/quote]
No it doesn't occur to me that if it weren't for Ponds performance we would be 4-1. If we would have ran an actual offense where one player doesn't bring the ball up and play hero ball on every possession we probably would have beaten VCU much more handily.
How do you expect the other players like Figueroa and Heron to get into a flow of the offense when one guy is just playing completely selfish and shooting every time he touches the ball? Of course they are going to struggle when the only looks they get are out of the flow of the offense.
To be clear I actually love Ponds, and think he's one of the most talented players ever to play at SJU, but my real beef is with the coaching staff that can't control their players, and seem more and more clueless. Yes we're 5-0 and that's great, but the lack of coaching is really going to rear its ugly head when we start playing better competition in conference. We were 10-2, I believe, last year heading into conference play, and look what happened.[/quote]
Maybe you should watch the game again. Heron was given numerous opportunities to get it going, and he kept missing, and the game was slipping away. Clark was given plenty of opportunities also, hell, we went to him at the end of regulation! He airballed.
Or how about the time when it was neck and neck and we really needed a bucket late, and Ponds played that unselfish ball you so crave, finding Justin Simon in the corner wide open. Do you remember what happened there? Oh yea an airball, not even close.
If you want team ball, look no further than the Rutgers game a week ago. We played great team ball and won easily, because everyone was hitting their shots. When no one is hitting their shots, you have to go with your star. We did against VCU.
can’t believe how dissatisfied this board was and is with the VCU win. Yes it was a WIN. You can’t even tell with the mood on here sometimes. Yea we could do a lot of things better, of course, we need to have a better offense and sure up our perimeter defense, but jeez, I didn’t think I’d see the day where our fans call a 36 point peformance + a game winner “embarrassing”. Sorry it wasn’t the prettiest win but have you watched St. John’s basketball the last 10 years? Forget getting a pretty win most of the time we don’t even get a win. As of now we are undefeated, let’s enjoy life a little bit
