St. John's Post Game Thread

[MTBingNinja]

This team building steam, people starting to see that this team may be more complete than last year. Let’s keep rolling by playing 40 minutes

 

[dennismenace]

Some observations:
1. Jim Jackson was spot on in assessing how the game has slowed for Castle. There's less hesitation in his decision making, and every move seems to have a purpose. He's going to be a heck of a player (more so).
2. Newton was good again, but he always has a couple of plays that make me scratch my head. Be it a ill-advised 3-pointer or dribbling into traffic, jumping, and throwing a blind pass leading to a TO. AS good as Tristen is, I think he can be better if he economized his shots and distributed more (which he's very good at).
3. Samson's lack of girth was apparent on a couple of putback attempts against thick-bodied players like Soriano and Ledlum. I'm still looking to see some of Samson's somewhat hyped 3-pt. shooting.
4. I think we benefitted from St. John's not utilizing Soriano more, considering Donovan was in foul trouble. Soriano clearly had an advantage on Samson.
5. Luis Jr. on St. John's looks to be a nice player. If he sticks around, I think Pitino can develop him.
6. Alleyne looked pretty good in the few minutes he played, I think Pitino should have gave him more minutes.

Overall, this was like a breath of fresh air compared to the pace of the Providence game.

When he got the ball low when DC was out we were collapsing on him with 3 players. He only passed it out once for an open man that I saw who made the shot. That defensive planning worked!

 

[Husky1972]

Watching Bluebloods Duke & UNC going at it. Wishing we could be like them.

Oh, wait.....Championship #5.......followed by #1 ranking. Nah, I don't want to be like them.........

 

[maineuconnfan]

I havent seen any of the postgame press conferences posted anywhere....anyone know where to locate?

 

[Fan1978]

Castle needs to keep ripping a few from three. When he's in rhythm he has a solid shot and it opens up the whole floor for him. He's been fun to watch

Most impressive part is he continued to play his game. Most guys would have taken 3-5 more threes. He is so mature 2-2 thank you very much.

 

[Waquoit]

9 points between two BIGs at least 6'-10" tall. How is that possible? Somehow that has to change. Imagine if they could combine for 15 to 20 per game...

We won by triple the spread, Moe. They made free throws. That should tide you over.

 

[UCTitleTown]

From an NCAA seeding point of view for us, should we be rooting for UNC or.....gulp.....Duke???

 

[ninety-nine]

From an NCAA seeding point of view for us, should we be rooting for UNC or.....gulp.....Duke???

UNC lost to GT the other day, so I'd say we want them to win tonight. There's enough space between UConn and UNC for now, and we want our win against them to look as good as possible. Also, duck fuke. A road win for them vs UNC is more impressive than a home win by UNC against Duke, and the less impressive outcome is desired here. Let the home teams hold serve.

 

[alphasigko]

Sometimes sometimes stellar, sometimes interstellar...
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Who be this?

 

[ScottCT]

From an NCAA seeding point of view for us, should we be rooting for UNC or.....gulp.....Duke???

I root for North Carolina of course. I have no dislike for the Tar Heels but I absolutely despise Duke.

 

[Rico444]

I could be wrong but I think we have the most Q1 wins in the country now with our 8th today.

 

[61cygni]

I could be wrong but I think we have the most Q1 wins in the country now with our 8th today.

I think so, Purdue with a chance to tie tomorrow

 

[OceanDoggie]

Watching Bluebloods Duke & UNC going at it. Wishing we could be like them.

Oh, wait.....Championship #5.......followed by #1 ranking. Nah, I don't want to be like them.........

No doubt about it, but man Hubie looks to be on a long path of embarrassing Scheyer. Hubert inhereted two down years from Roy and John received the full Coach K continuity.

 

[TheShot1990]

He's always been a one and done lottery pick, I'm thinking we may be seeing the #1 pick.

Well, lottery picks are what 1-14? There are some that had him going later such as:

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10106476-2024-nba-mock-draft-latest-2-round-predictions-pro-comparisons

So not always, but if he plays like he did the last 2 games, he will leave no doubt. I won't speculate on where in the 1-14....

 

[boba]

Who be this?

Sun Ra, avant garde musician.

 

[Bomber36]

He's had 27 free-throws the last two games and has made 20. He's working the Refs, initiating contact and it's working.

I was referring to the times he got hammered and didn’t get a call

 

[huskymedic]

 

[Bomber36]

I like it when we own them.

 

[Ctedgeman]

So I love this very much, but this is definitely one of those things that you can only love when it's your guy. If SJU beat had beaten us at home and soriano did this, we be calling him an ayhole and want to punch his face in

 

[OceanDoggie]

“They’re No. 1 in the country. They’re better than us,” he said. “That doesn’t mean you can’t beat the No. 15 team, though. We hope to get there someday.”

Ole Slick Rick Is an ambitious realist, and this is why the Johnnie's will have a revival during his short tenure there.

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

Who be this?

Born Herman Blount, he was better known (though seemingly not here) throughout a lengthy & distinguished jazz career as Sun Ra.

Sun Ra - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

I like it when we own them.

First sentence of Pitino's post-game interview: "They're better than us."

PS - Greg McDermott and Seth Miller said different versions of the same thing.

 

[alphasigko]

Born Herman Blount, he was better known (though seemingly not here) throughout a lengthy & distinguished jazz career as Sun Ra.

Sun Ra - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Thx

 

[EZPass]

I havent seen any of the postgame press conferences posted anywhere....anyone know where to locate?

 

[alphasigko]

9 points between two BIGs at least 6'-10" tall. How is that possible? Somehow that has to change. Imagine if they could combine for 15 to 20 per game...

What's so funny about that Ern? Their combined score is a fact. They were 4 of 9 from the field w/1 FT for 9 pts, with 9 Fouls between them. IMO not really that funny but rather concerning.