Cant we all come to the conclusion that 10 big east wins will get us in the tournament instead of 11.I know Rick says 11 but he’s just trying to motivate the team.Trust me 1 more win and we are in.I only hope that we get at least 1 more.

think we would win, but I thought we had a good chance too. We played well in first half and defense was actually not bad throughout. But G-town played tough and starting hitting 3s too. Samuels didn’t perform as well as he should obviously, but he was taking shots and they just weren’t falling tonight. Thought we should have held it closer though, but we couldn’t hit a side of a barn there for a while. Delk had a nice first half and really Sosa was the player who showed up and made things happen throughout the game. Disappointed, but not in the dumps about his. G-town was in a funk and this was there game out of it. We need to win one on the road and then beat ‘Cuse at home. Tall order, but I think that’s how it need to happen.

Go Cards.

Our best players did not.

He is a huge huge man and extremely strong. He didn’t put enough strength into defense or his shots, most of which just clanked off the front of the rim. All this means is that the next game he is going to step it up and have another big game……hopefully.

that was only because no one else could get anything going against Gtown. IMO this was one of his best games.
Buckles had some inspired minutes as well.

I know this team is a “box of chocolates”, but Pitino never even gave some guys a chance. I know we need Jerry for his defense, but the press only created maybe one turnover and it sure as hell didn’t tire out their guards or speed up the game with the press, so why not put in somebody who is going to shoot the ball? Jerry threw in a prayer for a three near the end and had one sweet drive for an and 1, but other than that, I can’t remember any good shots (there was an airball in there too). Marra does a good job of creating outside shots, yet saw no minutes.

And also i’m not sure why we went with the man-to-man. Freeman was getting wide open looks all night.

So in other words, Georgetown is as good as advertised.

TJ never rotated on Defense and allowed Freeman to get good looks to start the Hoyas’ opening 2nd half run. To regurgitate a tired story, this is why TJ doesn’t play in tandem with Samardo, he’s a great defender at the 5 and a liability at the 4.

They can’t handle prosperity or adversity. I feel like I’m watching really tall, athletic 12-year olds. They take a ride on the Happy-Sad-Happy-Sad-Happy-Sad roller coaster, all in the span of 1 minute of play. IMHO this is sign of a deficiency in Senior leadership. I said it at that start of the season and still believe we don’t have emotionally mature Seniors. This just makes the immature Freshmen and Sophomores that much more erratic. No one is there to calm them down. No one is there to show them how it’s done. Hard to watch, and even harder to coach.

Started posting something last night but was so upset that I just deleted everything. Felt slightly better, though, after venting to my monitor.

Jennings should have either replaced or at least played with Samardo after ‘Mardo missed that string of consecutive shots. Heard TJ injured his ankle in the first half, which is probably why he didn’t get the playing time he deserved.

When we are shooting that bad and it’s obvious our defense isn’t working, why not at least try Mike Marra. I’m probably more upset about him not being played than any of my other points of contention.

So… our press was not very good.

Call me a heathen, but Preston did not play well last night. He made some bad decisions with the ball and became an offensive liability. But hey, even God took a day off…

Sosa probably played his best consecutive 10 minutes of his career to start the game. After that, he didn’t play any worse than the rest of his teammates. I think he deserves a lot of credit.

Who would have thouht a year ago that Jerry would become (one of) the best on-ball defender(s) on the team? He still gets beat off the dribble way too often, but at least he hustles to get back into position. As my roommate pointed out, he isn’t shooting well, so he might as well be good at something.

Speaking of defense, Siva just doesn’t seem to be the frantic and harassing defender he was at the start of the season. My hopes of seeing a Siva/Preston! defensive combo rivaling McGee/Preston! is fading fast.

Samardo needs to learn to plant his foot and spin inside toward the basket. I counted at least 3 possessions where Monroe was guarding the outside spin and Samardo spun right into him (hence his poor shooting).

Thought our freethrow shooting was still much improved over what we saw earlier in the season.

one player from the opposing team ALWAYS has a career game against us? I guess I’ll take it as flattery, since playing the Ville is always a big deal to the other team.

During the first half of the game I had on my Sam Sam Jersey, but during halftime I took it off. I tried to put it back on but the magic was lost. I take full responsibility for the loss and vow to never listen to my gf when she says how much she hates it. Sorry guys and gals

I’ve seen a play used a number of times by other teams but I don’t know if it is generally planned. It seems like it would be easy to set up and likely often result in either a foul, a shooting foul, or a 3. It also seems like it would work particularly well with our boys. Here’s the play:

A guard set up screen for the defender on the PG, PG takes a step behind the screen, losing the defender to the screen and then PG fires a 3 off over top the screen (who is ducking and staying out of the way).

This will work well for our boys (with practice) because we have a number of shorter guards (Siva is 6’0) to act as screens that should be easy to shoot over and we have a number of perimeter shooters.

I would also like to see Jenning or Sam nail a 3 as they are consistently left wide open on the perimeter (for good reason). I’m guessing they’re not capable, but I can dream.

Someone I think mentioned this somewhere, but Delk has to be one of the best fast break defenders in the BE. How many times has be blocked or stripped what would have otherwise been an easy layup?

And not on the bright side: If I was an opposing team game planning for us, I would make sure that my players know to collapse whenever Samuels gets the ball. At least always double him and lots of tripling, as looking from film it must be obvious that he NEVER passes back out, regardless of whether or not he makes a lot of his shots.