Terrence Jennings busted the door open
by 97E3LPL on Feb 19, 2011 7:21 PM EST
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PrintI hope everyone writing this game up gives TJ some love today.
In my humble opinion, TJ outscoring UConn all by himself for the first fourth of the game really knocked the Huskies out of their gameplan. Using what seems to be improving quickness and heightened aggressiveness, TJ busted the inside for several baskets and free shots.
Yeah, Siva had some high flying moments, some coming off some of his own 6 (wow) steals.
Preston! defense, as usual, was exhilarating and is partly why he tallied 7 assists.
But they achieved all that on the table that TJ set. By the time UConn finally had more points than TJ, he'd given the UL offense time to find their rhythm.
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Granted his shot looks better, but he still doesn't rebound well.
I have recorded and rewatched our last few games and isolated on TJ. There are just so many times when the shot goes up where he just seems to turn and watch. I just don’t think he has that instinct that all great rebounders seem to have. And he doesn’t seem to have a good sense of where to position best himself. One would think that on defense, he is often playing behind his man, which should put him in ideal position. But many times he hesitates, then turns in place and watches for the ball, when the opponent moves inside or along side him and snare the rebound. Poor recognition and blocking out I guess. I recall Dennis Rodman saying that when the ball went up to the rim, it was his and he went after it that way. TJ doesn’t have that instinct, or that ability.
by Carolina Cardinal on Feb 19, 2011 8:23 PM EST reply actions
I'd agree that SVT & Buckles both seem to have a better knack at snagging boards than TJ. It's early but Dieng looks the part as well.
TJ doesn’t anticipate as well and his slight build doesn’t help him if he hesitates against capable big men.
As a career guard (short white kid), it was a lot easier to predict a carom off the rim from 15 feet away than from inside the paint so I empathize with front court types. Bad positioning, however is hard to defend.
by UL is my hot hot sex on Feb 19, 2011 9:30 PM EST up reply actions
Why bashing TeeJay?
I was convinced he was going to have a Samardo-jump hook-vs-Notre Dame kind of night.
He is snatching down 7-8 rebounds consistently, and is giving us12+ points every night. Can’t fault him here.
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Haha, dude I wrote an entire post about TJ's renaissance. Just agreeing w/ the constructive criticism above.
I’m not a TJ basher but one area he could improve is rebounding.
Until he can consistently hit those sweet Herbert Crook sky hooks, he is a role player and rebounding/blocking out is his most influential role on this team, next to altering shots and running the floor. He’s gotten a lot better at it but as Carolina pointed out above, if you focus on TJ during games there are times where he is ball-watching instead of reacting, boxing out, etc…
His rebounding percentages (estimate of the percentage of available rebounds a player grabbed while he was on the floor) prove our point. While improving since early January, his def reb % is worse than Buckles, SVT, Dieng and Chris Smith and off reb % worse than Buckles, SVT & Dieng.
by UL is my hot hot sex on Feb 19, 2011 9:58 PM EST up reply actions
Agreed.
TJ’s got some nice post moves these days, and he was the first piece of the offense to get going. I think David Padgett’s been helping him. :)
Pitino's post game
He was asked by Paul Rodgers if his 4 fouls kept him out of the game and Pitino said he would not have come back in the game no matter what because of his poor rebounding. I think you got to trust CP on this one. If this kid can’t hit the boards strong he will have his minuets limited. Deing will be as good on offense shortly and is already better at rebounding so TJ may be in trouble. I don’t wish it on him, its just the way it is. I don’t recall TJ ever hitting the floor hard do to jumping in traffic and it makes me wonder if he’s afraid to get undercut and thus causing hesitation of staying planted. This kid’s not stupid, he knows he has to hit the boards but he’s working against his own instincts and there may be very little a coach can do about that. I still hope he is able to overcome this if that is indeed the case.
WTF
The POINT of the post has been completely disregarded by TJ hate. Thanks, fellow fans. Way to give props to one of our boys.
I don’t care what your ‘expert’ observations above say, the FACT is, TJ busted this game open for us. UConn were all over our perimeter, and TJ made them collapse back in.
He started the game on en fuego; No Doubt. I do feel like he was on the losing end of 2-3 bad foul calls but,
UConn was doing a good job of going at him once he got into foul trouble. If you noticed, which you might not have unless you watched it for a second time, after TJ picked up #2 he sat. Then, every time he came into the game they went at him to force him to defend.
He only had 11 minutes Friday night because of that foul trouble which is one reason why his rebound total was so low.
But, he did play major minutes at Cinci and only grabbed 4 boards in that game.
I don’t know. I saw someone post a while back that they hopped TJ stayed motivated and didn’t relax once Gorgui came back.
I’m gonna chalk the Cinci game up to no one playing well, not just TJ, and the UConn game up to foul trouble. Because it really did look like he had his mind set on dominating that game from the word go.
FYI: there was a point in the game where something good happened (a buckles rebound and score, I think?), UConn called time out immediately. The cameras went to the Louisville bench and every player was up and running to mid court to meet the team.
Except TJ.
He was hanging his head with a towel over it. Rick turned around and said something to him and then put his ass into him like he was showing him how to Block Out.
Don’t know if that was becasue he saw him hanging his head?
Or, if it was a “that’s how you do it” thing?
Anyone else catch that?
by Chick-Stratino'sUrDaddy on Feb 20, 2011 1:01 PM EST reply actions
yeah that whole blocking out sequence on the sideline was weird
You could tell Rick was pissed & TJ wasn’t happy about the “instruction”. Pitino said Tj sat for reasons other than foul trouble in the 2nd half. Other than his scoring in the first 5 minutes of the game, Dieng and SVT outplayed him IMO. But he has turned the corner and I hope isn’t affected by the potential lost playing time now that the other big men are healthy.
by UL is my hot hot sex on Feb 20, 2011 5:16 PM EST up reply actions
Agreeing but not
While I am in complete agreement that TJ’s offense at the beginning of the game did set the tone of the game, it is not unfair to point out his defensive lapses, which, in MY humble opinion, come far too often from a player in his junior year; much less one trying to make it to the next level. Rebounding should be instinctual at this point; the mechanics, well-honed. In both the Cincinnati and UConn games this week, TJ was far too often a blocked-out spectator. Do I still love this guy? You bet.
And if you write a post, don’t get your feelings hurt if the tone of it changes by people responding…would you rather they didn’t comment at all?
haha my feelings aren't hurt
The emotion I’m expressing is more along the lines of “geez, do you selfish b****ds know how to give a fellow some props” at all?
Again, the point of the post is TJ opening the UConn game, not his overall skill set.
The expression is "selfish motherf*ckers"
"Screech, you CAN'T elope!"
"Who are you calling a cantaloupe, you melonhead?"
I'm not so sure
And the point I was trying to make is that while I understand the ONLY point of your post was to acknowledge the contribution TJ made at the beginning of the UConn game (thus, giving him much-deserved props), people can, and often do, use blogs to launch into unrelated subjects they feel passionate about (like you’ve never screamed at your television when TJ watched a loose ball roll by him into the hands of a defender); doing this, I believe, does not make them selfish b*stards or TJ haters. I mean, honestly, how do you hate any kid on this team?
exactly
In the post-game recap, I mentioned that TJ’s offense jump-started our effort in the 1st half. Props were given. However, in the 2nd half either due to foul trouble or according to Pitino, other problems, Dieng got the crunch time minutes.
by UL is my hot hot sex on Feb 20, 2011 5:19 PM EST up reply actions
Easter eggs
Courtesy of ULSports.com:
Feb. 18, 2011
Louisville won its fourth straight game over Connecticut, tied with Pitt for the longest active streak by any Husky opponent .
The Cards won their eighth consecutive conference home game, the second-longest active string in the league (trailing only Notre Dame’s nine-game streak) and the second-longest in U of L’s BIG EAST history. Louisville won 12 straight BIG EAST home games from Jan. 10, 2008-Jan. 31, 2009.
(So we have a 50/50 chance of best BE home record.)
Louisville (20-7) has now notched at least 20 wins in nine consecutive seasons, a claim only seven other schools in the nation (Kansas, Duke, Syracuse, Florida, Texas, Utah State, and Pittsburgh) can make.
Consecutive 20-win seasons, Division I (active)
1. 22 – Kansas (24-2 in 2010-11)
2. 15 – Duke (24-2)
3. 14 – Syracuse (21-6)
4. 13 – Florida (20-5)
4. 13* – Gonzaga (18-9)
6. 12 – Texas (23-3)
6. 12 – Utah State (24-3)
8. 10 – Pittsburgh (24-2)
9. 9 – Louisville (20-7)
The 20-win season was the 19th for Louisville head coach Rick Pitino at the Division I level, placing him sixth among active coaches and 15th among all coaches.
20-win seasons in Division I, active coaches
1. 33 – Jim Boeheim, Syracuse (1977-Present)
2. 27 – Mike Krzyzewski, Army (1976-80) and Duke (1981-Present)
3. 24 – Jim Calhoun, Northeastern (1973-86) and Connecticut (1987-Present)
4. 22* – Bob Huggins, Akron (1985-89), Cincinnati (1990-05), Kansas State (2007), and West Virginia (2008-Present)
5. 20* – Roy Williams, Kansas (1989-2003), North Carolina (2004-Present)
6. 19 – Rick Pitino, Boston U. (1979-83), Providence (1986-87), Kentucky (1990-97), and Louisville (2002-Present)
6. 19* – Mike Montgomery, Montana (1979-86), Stanford (1987-04), and California (2009-Present)
- - Have not reached the 20-win mark in 2010-11. Huggins currently sits at 16-9, while Williams is 19-6 and Montgomery is 13-13.
Pitino (592 career victories) moved into a tie for 43rd place on the all-time wins list for Division I coaches, matching the total of Houston’s Guy Lewis (1957-86).
Louisville and Pittsburgh are the only BIG EAST teams yet to lose back-to-back games this season.
The Cards improve to 27-6 in their last 33 February games dating back to the 2006-07 season.
The Cardinals notched 12 steals in the game, their 26th game (out of 27) this season with at least six thefts. The one game with fewer than six steals this season (four at Notre Dame) ties for the fewest in the nation.
U of L forced the Huskies into a season-high 16 turnovers, its highest total since turning the ball over 20 times against St. John’s in last year’s BIG EAST Tournament. This comes one game after UConn recorded a season-low seven turnovers in a 78-70 win over Georgetown. Connecticut became the 20th Louisville opponent this season to have at least two more turnovers than assists (eight).
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