We certainly needed someone to step up but we couldn't make clutch plays when it counted. Mullins missed shots. Reed missed shots in the paint. Silas missed FT's. Reibe was a non-factor. Ross and Stew disappeared. And SJ hit shots. Pretty simple. Hopefully Ball has his best great game when it counts most.
He still has a losing record vs Danny.
Ross last 4 games have been good. Stewart has become a turnover machine.
Same story with Pitt 20-25 years ago. They can enjoy Big East success and then flame out early in the tourney.
Home game. 18 in a row. over-confident? maybe they didn't watch tape of SJU's defense. I don't know.
This pretty much sums it up
I think we'll have to run the rest of the season to have a chance at the 1. We aren't going to get a lot of credit beating up on the sludge of the BE if we can't beat StJ 2x and @ Nova. Still in play, but we have to be perfect. If we lose anymore to StJ, I do think it will be a suggestion that we have a capped ceiling in the tourney too. There are much better teams than them out there that are just as big and physical.
I think everyone is disappointed with Solo, especially his biggest fans. We thought he would be competing for Big East POY and headed to the first round NBA draft. The good news is he has the rest of this year and next to put it all together. Rooting for him!
Unfortunately we are now seeing Smith isn’t a high end D1 player. Neither was Mahaney. Better for them to stay in a mid major environment.
A “no show” with 17 points? You’re incorrect.
They're way better than they were early in the season. Last year's team just blitzed you with pressure but they were small and couldn't shoot. They don't blitz you quite the same this season but they're a lot bigger and they can shoot pretty good now.
I think everyone is rooting for Solo, he is a good kid, but we have to face facts....All he has shown he can do is shoot the 3. Not a good ball handler, not a great passer, bad rebounder, struggles to defend, and refuses to put the ball on the deck and attack the rim. He's an average player right now and plays poorly in big games. He needs to get tougher and play tougher.
It’s just whining to blame the refs. Plain and simple. And not a good look. Refs did not decide this game. This, poor FT shooting and just some very low basketball IQ basketball plays. I don’t know what the hell Tarris is thinking half the time but he makes so many dumb plays per game it’s silly.
We shot better than SJ. Ft disparity crushed us and the early turnovers hurt. I thought we played tough. Alex wasn’t as scared of Hopkins like days past. Reed Zuby was good until it wasn’t. Mullins has brass ba!!s. Silas had that fire!!!! The real issues to me were smith again being a non factor vs bigger guards, Stewart continues to turn the ball over and may have the worst +\- on the team by a lot, the 15 stumbles slips and falls.. what the heck was that? And odd turnovers with minimal pressure. In all, we hung with a team with 2 big east POY and played good but not great. We played tough and I feel we still had some gas. We win in OT. Danny avoids a tech that was waiting for him and this was the wirst officiated game of the year. Another reason why we will thrive in the tourney and SJ will get dumped early. Bad both ways early but a pulled jersey. Trip on Silas. Lane violation. Travel on the pg and another on zuby. All that and we lose by essentially a possession. I feel good and that was a good test.
I think Pitino owns Hurley's jock if you give them both equally matched up teams. Pitino also recruits teams that he knows will be able to shut the water off on Dan Hurley's actions with lenght and athletecism and the ability to switch 1-5. I'm honestly not even feeling that great about the next matchup - it felt like StJ could have won by more if they hit a couple of their open threes.
We get grabbed more than any other team in the league and it hurts us because of the way we play but St. John's flat out deserved to beat us.
Biggest different is Mitchell - I think he might be the best pure athlete in CBB. Kid was a top ten McD AA that could just never figure out how to shoot a basketball. Mitchell is Pitino's swiss army knife - the put back offensive rebound there in the final minutes was really impressive. He's everywhere, really disruptive. Would love to start finding guys like him once in awhile for the same reason. A kid like Ross has nothing on him, Mitchell so much bigger, stronger and more athletic.
People said that about McDermott vs Hurley for years. Maybe Pitino can win a few tourney games, no? Hurley has won 13 in the last 3 years 😁
Lots of recency bias gets posted here but Smith is the only player on the Boneyard who consistently gets “past” bias.
Of course everyone is routing for him. It's been pretty clear for awhile now Solo is a one dimensional player with lot's of liabilities. Not sure why we ever had him and Mullins on the floor together for long stretches tonight.
McDermott's issue now is his player quality is really bad. That won't be an issue for StJ/Repole.
Sure, there are better teams that SJ but we match up well with many of them and have beat some of them head to head. The tournament is so unpredicable because matchups make a diffence.
What do you think happened to Mullins tonight? He looked great and then he disappeared.