St. John's Post Game Thread | Page 8 | The Boneyard

St. John's Post Game Thread

FightOnCT said:
Reed stuffed likely BEPOTY Zuby into a locker. That’s all I gotta say
Expand ...

I was told that Tarris is good but Zuby is GREAT (I didn’t think he was great before tonight either).
 
Great win! Loved what I have seen out of Tarris the last 2 games on both sides of the ball. If he keeps playing like this every game we can beat anyone and are definitely a final four team. I loved that whoever was in the game played great. I loved Smith hustle even if has trouble finishing layups. Karaban has a really good game going to the basket and we will definitely miss him when he leaves. Glad to see that Demary only had 1 TO compared to 9 TO was big this game. We didn't need him to try to take over going one on one like the last game. I just loved our defense and hope we bring like the rest of the year. We definitely are back on a lot of procrastinators final four picks after that whooping we put on St. John's.
 
.-.
Gurleyman said:
We didn’t run anything up. We scored 72 - and only 31 in the second half.

Is there a such thing as “running it down” by not letting them make any baskets?
Expand ...
We didn’t run it up as much as they tanked it. Too bad it doesn’t get them a high draft pick.
 
UConNick said:
18-0 run in the first half, 16-0 run in the second.

St. John’s didn’t make a field goal after the under 16 media timeout in the second half. Is that even possible?

Let’s enjoy this one for a night and then get ready to do the same damn thing to the Hall on Saturday
Expand ...
Slaughter shots.
 
.-.
Drfla said:
Most of the difference was when the game was out of hand. Was even before that. Heck one of the fouls was intentional to stop the game to get our bench in
Expand ...
When was that exactly? Saw O’Connell making bad calls all game against us. Don’t remember one on them. Even called an under the basket oob from halfcourt. Luckily Dan had it reviewed.
 
IMG_1955.gif
 
navery12 said:
Hopefully this means I can finally stop having weekly discussions about why Reed shouldn't be benched and is not a horrible defender (not directed at you)
Expand ...
I appreciate you noting that at the end. I noted his def +/- in another thread. He’s been a tremendous defender his whole two years here, not sure how people think differently.
 
.-.
Huskyforlife said:
So weird how St Johns went away from their winning game plan from last game. They didnt press, post up Mitchell on ball and Mullins, didn’t crash the glass hard.

More even reffing obviously helped us here, it was obvious how bad the reffing was at MSG. But the defense was suffocating, and Tarris especially deserves the game ball for dominating the paint.

I still love what Ross brings, doesn’t over dribble, takes good looks, defends better than anyone not named Demary, and hustles more than anyone on the team. I’m buying stock on him starting as a senior, but that’s probably hyperbole.
Expand ...

They tried to press but it wasn’t effective. Not sure if the “casual fans” noticed, but we brought Reed back when we were inbounding and had him set a screen or sometimes multiple screens to get the ball in more easily. Seemed to take a lot of pressure off the inbounder and eventually they didn’t press so much because it wasn’t creating an advantage for them.
 
Jayden Ross has really found his groove. 15-20 minutes off the bench with good defense is enough, but he's finally playing with confidence on offense too. That's big for March and a very valuable role for next year off the bench too
 
Hurleyman216 said:
They tried to press but it wasn’t effective. Not sure if the “casual fans” noticed, but we brought Reed back when we were inbounding and had him set a screen or sometimes multiple screens to get the ball in more easily. Seemed to take a lot of pressure off the inbounded and eventually they didn’t press so much because it wasn’t creating an advantage for them.
Expand ...
Yup, there were some tweaks like that made to the press break and there's a reason St John's stopped.

Another subtle change that's frustrated me for years was Karaban not running the baseline when the immediate pass isn't there, which he did at least twice tonight
 
.-.
navery12 said:
Jayden Ross has really found his groove. 15-20 minutes off the bench with good defense is enough, but he's finally playing with confidence on offense too. That's big for March and a very valuable role for next year off the bench too
Expand ...
And his shot looks pretty good. That turnaround was beautiful even if it was incredibly surprising. His switching on defense was great, too.
 
navery12 said:
Jayden Ross has really found his groove. 15-20 minutes off the bench with good defense is enough, but he's finally playing with confidence on offense too. That's big for March and a very valuable role for next year off the bench too
Expand ...
His skillset also fits in nicely in a game like this where they get turnovers/rebounds and can push the pace more. He fits better running the floor than when we are purely a halfcourt team.
 
.-.
You must log in or register to reply here.

Forum statistics

Threads
168,367
Messages
4,568,389
Members
10,472
Latest member
MyStore24


Top Bottom