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St. John's Post Game Thread

The biggest difference in this game is how often Tarris touched the ball tonight. Not only in the post, but throughout the form of the offensive sets. This is the kind of stuff we've been pining for. So I guess my biggest question is then - do coaches save stuff?

I think a lot of us have been wondering whether Hurley has another trick up his sleeve to "peak at the right time". I'm sure great coaches do hold off on things until it really matters, but I do not know for sure.
 
Just finished the game on a bit of a delay. I had kind of lost faith that we were ever going to see another gear out of this particular group. Holy hell, that was like two extra gears. Most of the Big East season has been a bit of a slog this year but these last two games have me really excited about March and April.

Reed has looked a lot lighter on his feet these last few games. I know a lot of his issues are mental lapses but this reminds me a little bit of Clingan in '23-'24 where he didn't really full recover from injuries and get in full game shape until about mid February.
 
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Icehawk said:
Would really like to see us give them a pounding.
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Mission ACCOMPLISHED. Boys, better load up on the Kool-Aid because this is what we all knew their potential was. If they can keep this going anything is possible.

So much good D, hustle, and speed of play - fire that ball to your teammate with some vim! And all those people wanting Koroma got their wish albeit not how they were thinking 😀

Loved Tarris going up for dunks.
 
MJKI said:
A side note; Pitino not doing media after the game is such chicken-*. I’m glad we have a coach who will face it always, win or lose. Pitino is such a sore loser and the sport will be better when he retires.
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I have to give him a little nod. He walked down the entire bench. Could have done the coaching handshake and turned around.
 
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MJKI said:
A side note; Pitino not doing media after the game is such chicken-*. I’m glad we have a coach who will face it always, win or lose. Pitino is such a sore loser and the sport will be better when he retires.
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Quick Rick had a table reserved after the game, always in a hurry to finish
 
jibsey said:
Karaban. He does not settle for 3’s every time and is driving much more, scoring when jammed outside. I like it.
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That’s the first thing I noticed as well. The team didn’t start launching threes until under ten minutes and even those weren’t that egregious.

I’m still baffled by St. John’s shooting. UConn had great defense but some of their shots were so far off. Unbelievable but I love it.
 
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Edward Sargent said:
Something really off with the Johnnies tonight 15 minutes without a field goal? Ejiofor pulled early after 1 foul (yeah we didnt have an answer for Prey) he Mitchell and Hopkins with 14 points? Something fishy. Pitino had no control over the team tonight. Danny on the other hand turned on the lights for us
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This was honestly likely a "good loss" for StJ - they've been on cruise control for awhile, and I'm sure Pitino is going to use it to sharpen the iron for March.

On their end, not really sure what Ian Jackson brings to this team. Outside of Sanon doing a little scoring, nobody did a thing for them tonight.
 
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housekeys said:
By clean, you are referencing the cleaning of blood from the floor, I take it.
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I wasn’t referencing that. I was referencing how easy it is for a game like that to go sideways given how physical St. Johns is, and how clearly it was a priority for us to meet their physicality. It would be easy to have a foul like hair club for men committed against Hopkins in the Providence-St John’s game, but I thought everyone on both teams did a great job.
 
DoctorWho85 said:
Man SJUs forums are crying about Hurley running it up. GOH they would have done the exact same thing they're just mad
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Hard not to run it up when your team can't make a basket in 18 minutes. He brought in end of bench at around 3 minutes.
 
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