Jamie Dixon

[Jerry1714]

What an absolute buffon.

Cuse has no TOs, but hey lets give them one by calling a TO with 4 seconds left so they can set up a play.

There is a reason why Pitt is Pitt

 

[metsfan2323]

I guess it's safe to burn up your time outs when you play Pitt because if you need an extra one Jamie Dixon is willing to help out.

 

[Hoophound]

It was questionable but I am pretty sure Jamie would have signed up for a contested 35 footer in a heartbeat and that's what Cuse got, they just made it.

 

[superjohn]

The guy is so tight at the end of close games, it's just sad. He was sitting in his chair with zero belief that Zana would make either free throws, the big fella calmly knocks them both down and Syracuse looks flustered about to attempt an inbounds and then boom he calls a timeout. There is absolutely a reason Pitt is Pitt.

 

[selles]

It was questionable but I am pretty sure Jamie would have signed up for a contested 35 footer in a heartbeat and that's what Cuse got, they just made it.

It wasn't very contested. If you call time out there, you do it to say "we're doubling Ennis so he doesn't get the ball". That's the only possible reason to call a time out.

 

[AfgHusky15]

What an absolute buffon.

Cuse has no TOs, but hey lets give them one by calling a TO with 4 seconds left so they can set up a play.

There is a reason why Pitt is Pitt

Dixon is smart enough to know he is a terrible in game coach... That's why he always schedules as many cupcakes as possible to always make it seem the team is better than they actually are (something cuse knows all about as well)

 

[eos91]

It was questionable but I am pretty sure Jamie would have signed up for a contested 35 footer in a heartbeat and that's what Cuse got, they just made it.

Hmmm... Contested 35-footer against Pitt... I think I have seen that before (MSG).

 

[The Viking]

It's gonna be a battle when Pitt and Cuse likely hook up again at MSG in a month. Cuse fans must be jacked.

 

[Hoophound]

It wasn't very contested. If you call time out there, you do it to say "we're doubling Ennis so he doesn't get the ball". That's the only possible reason to call a time out.

I don't agree with the timeout but the result was not due to the timeout. Ennis hit a 35 foot pull up jumper. It was contested but a pull up jumper is virtually unguardable. He shot that ball earlier and from further out than he needed to. Again, as I said in another thread, I would have preferred Cuse not have a chance to regain their composure, but that shot was not guardable.

 

[selles]

I don't agree with the timeout but the result was not due to the timeout. Ennis hit a 35 foot pull up jumper. It was contested but a pull up jumper is virtually unguardable. He shot that ball earlier and from further out than he needed to. Again, as I said in another thread, I would have preferred Cuse not have a chance to regain their composure, but that shot was not guardable.

I agree that the shot was not guardable. That's why you don't double him at half court, you double him on the inbounds. Pitt pretended they were going to do that, then backed off and didn't contest Ennis getting the ball. That was silly.

 

[MilliniumPrince]

The University of Pittsburgh....body snatching defeat from the jaws of Victory for over 100 years!

 

[Kitaman]

The timeout was bad but not the difference. The kid hit a difficult shot not usually made.

Pitt lost it on the 2nd (or 3rd) to last possession when they didn't score. Then later they foul Ennis. That whole sequence looked like the ugly Pitt I remember.

 

[TRest]

Every time they showed the beasts in the student section I felt better about the fact Pitt was going to choke away another one.

 

[Tenspro2002]

If there is a silver lining, it's that Pitt won't be able to leapfrog us in the polls and in projected seeding. But wow.

 

[ConnHuskBask]

My old man said, well F Cuse but at least the Pitt fans got ducked at home haha

 

[uconnell]

What's with Dixon's hair?

 

[Henry]

It wasn't very contested. If you call time out there, you do it to say "we're doubling Ennis so he doesn't get the ball". That's the only possible reason to call a time out.

And you guard the inbounds pass. Make them throw it over or bounce pass. I call the play Dixon called, the "hope" defense. I hope the shot doesn't go in.

 

[TRest]

What's with Dixon's hair?

It's a combover from front to cover the top bald spot. Calipari has a similar intricate arrangement going on now.

 

[RichZ]

Dixon still looks like he's straining to take a dump on the bench.

 

[uconnell]

It seems like it is a different color. Looks like a squirrel's tail.

 

[SixRings]

And you guard the inbounds pass. Make them throw it over or bounce pass. I call the play Dixon called, the "hope" defense. I hope the shot doesn't go in.

Yep. Once in a while it goes in. I say it's better than letting Cuse run the ball down quickly and possibly getting a 10' open chipper or forbid a layup to win the game. Everyone is on Dixon for the TO because Ennis hits an unlikely "hope" shot. But if he doesn't TO and Cuse runs down to a mess of a defense and lays one in to win than everyone would have killed him for that. Best odds are that this scenario is practiced and the kids know what to do but I don't think that's realistic. I take the hope odds and call the TO. Nine out of ten times Ennis misses that shot.

 

[Jerry1714]

I don't agree with the timeout but the result was not due to the timeout. Ennis hit a 35 foot pull up jumper. It was contested but a pull up jumper is virtually unguardable. He shot that ball earlier and from further out than he needed to. Again, as I said in another thread, I would have preferred Cuse not have a chance to regain their composure, but that shot was not guardable.

I don't agree with the timeout but the result was not due to the timeout. Ennis hit a 35 foot pull up jumper. It was contested but a pull up jumper is virtually unguardable. He shot that ball earlier and from further out than he needed to. Again, as I said in another thread, I would have preferred Cuse not have a chance to regain their composure, but that shot was not guardable.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebas...ug-gottlieb-talks-cuse-creighton-wichita-sdsu

Worth a listen for anyone who tries to justify the TO....there is no justification

 

[August_West]

If there is a silver lining, it's Dixons comb over.

fixed that for you

 

[WillB4]

It's gonna be a battle when Pitt and Cuse likely hook up again at MSG in a month. Cuse fans must be jacked.

Why MSG they are in the ACC, they play down south

 

[Inyatkin]

That Pitt loss to Butler in the 2011 tourney came up in the other thread -- there were some strange calls, sure, but it was so obvious how Dixon tightened up down the stretch. You could see it in his face, just like the other night.