It’s almost too late at this point for these guys. It’s going to be hard to try and get them up to speed during Big East play if it’s going to be this tough.
You can’t schedule top teams AND expect to develop your incoming freshmen.
We played a lot more games than that that could’ve prepared them to contribute in those games.
He had 8-9 guys playing. You wanted 12?
No man. Hurley has said himself that he needs to find a way to give Karaban more of a breather. He should’ve used all the non-conference (including the tough games if you feel like we are going to need them in tough games this season) to develop either one of Ross or Stewart.
Refs weren’t great but how did they change the tempo?
I thought it was Danny’s plan to use Samson to back up both Don and Alex.
I’m SUPER down on Sampson, it’s amazing that people thought he could play the 4.
I don’t understand your obsession with the younger guys. Hurley proved this to you with guys like Diggins. If they were ready they would be playing. He also has to allow the first 7 guys to build rapport.
Well that is how you get to the line. DRIVE. Tat is all they did. Give credit to The Hall's game plan. Well though out and successful. The way they took it to the basket was not surprise to me. Teams have done the same to us but not at this magnitude. Seems we could not do the same. Even last year I aske why it was so easy for others to drive against us. I haven't looked at the stats yet. How many deep shot shots did SH even take. Never mind made. The foul difference could be we didn't take it to the basket? Couldn't shoot threes and and no drive.
Tbh with our offense I don’t know if we’d be able to put two bigs on the floor together. Samson hasn’t shown any ability outside of 5’ offensively.
For those people saying we played a terrible game and the refs weren’t the issue, that’s a half truth. Just like PC last year, our team never adjusted to the fact that the opponent could bump, grab and foul us. We were comfortably ahead early and then Seton Hall started aggressively fouling with no calls. Our guys got frustrated and it took them out of the game mentally. So yes they stopped moving and moving the ball, but that’s what happens when your understanding of the rules of the game are upended midway through the first half.
Can we stop putting this on the refs? What non-calls did you want in the first half? Can make the argument that Newton was fouled on the drive that they called a jump ball maybe. Other than that I’m struggling to see where we got hosed by the refs on that big seton hall run.
Read what I said. The way the refs called it (or didn't call it mostly) was something we weren't prepared for. We stunk up the joint, but had it been officiated like the OOC games we played we would never have gotten into that rut, and probably would have played much better. We were not prepared to play a game like that. Dan has said as much.
Yea the big East is garbage.
We cannot lose to St John’s on Saturday. If we’re going to struggle on the road we have to win at home especially against the middle teams in the Big East.
We could have done a matchup zone or just some soft man defense too. Dare them to shoot the three and see if they can make 15 to beat us. I don’t think they could but if it happens just tip your hat. Better to lose that way then give up wide open layups.
Hurley said before the season he wanted to get out and run more too but I think our pace or tempo metric is lower than last year
Well the team is slower than last year. Newton and Alex are the same. Cam is slower than Hawkins and Clingan is slower than Sanogo (even without the foot). Ball isn't slow, but not as good in transition or pushing the pace as Andre. Nor rebounding. Castle needs to start.
