Ugly St John's ThoughtZ™

[RichZ]

1. Who are these guys impersonating our players?
2. We finally score, 4 minutes in. 10-3
3. We are getting manhandled. This is beyond embarrassing.
4. Our issues with getting the ball inbounded cleanly are really hurting us today. Maybe not as much as our inability to score or to stop them from scoring, but hurting us nonetheless.
5. Half time I looked at the box score just long enough to confirm that we're getting manhandled in pretty much every column. Payback for the drubbing we gave them in February, I guess.
6. Woohoo! Mullins finally scored, 2 minutes into the 2nd half. Scored again 2 minutes later. And that was it. Ended with 5 points..
7. Reed uncharacteristically missing quite a few layups tonight. Went 8 of 17 from the floor. Still, he was our only double figure scorer.
8. From 7:34 to 6:37 in the 2nd half, we had a 57 second possession that included 4 shots on goal, but nary a point.
9. Got within 9 twice in the last 10 minutes or so, but then StJ stretched it back out to 20 plus and all hope was gone.

 

[ninety-nine]

We had it down to 7, then gave up five quick points to the Red Storm after Pitino's timeout, and couldn't hit a damn shot afterward.

 

[willie99]

Ugly is enough, kinda all encompassing

So ugly, I have absolutely no desire to watch the replay. Maybe the first time all year (I saw it live, that was bad enough)

 

[NJHusky]

I’m actually glad I had an event last night. Checked the scores during the game and saw no reason to actually watch it.

 

[connVA]

We had it down to 7, then gave up five quick points to the Red Storm after Pitino's timeout, and couldn't hit a damn shot afterward.

For me the psychological kill shot was when Mullins was driving down the court with us down 7, got stripped from behind by Darling or whoever, and the Jonnies scored to stretch it back out. The amount of careless turnovers in our “off” games has been maddening.

 

[jdb50]

For me the psychological kill shot was when Mullins was driving down the court with us down 7, got stripped from behind by Darling or whoever, and the Jonnies scored to stretch it back out. The amount of careless turnovers in our “off” games has been maddening.

Mullins had no thought to attacking the rim there. He hesitated and lost.

 

[connVA]

For me the psychological kill shot was when Mullins was driving down the court with us down 7, got stripped from behind by Darling or whoever, and the Jonnies scored to stretch it back out. The amount of careless turnovers in our “off” games has been maddening.

Besides Mullins doing a better job of protecting the ball and having better situational awareness, are players coached to give teammates a heads up that a defender is closing in from behind? After watching too many of my daughter's soccer games, they shout out "man on" to alert the person with the ball in that scenario. Is there a basketball equivalent?

 

[jibsey]

For me the psychological kill shot was when Mullins was driving down the court with us down 7, got stripped from behind by Darling or whoever, and the Jonnies scored to stretch it back out. The amount of careless turnovers in our “off” games has been maddening.

Mullins headed up the court with a guy on him and one behind and he seemed totally unaware that he was there but he should have checked to be sure.

 

[Hankster]

For me the psychological kill shot was when Mullins was stripped it seemed from that point it went down hill fast.

 

[HCCForever]

Besides Mullins doing a better job of protecting the ball and having better situational awareness, are players coached to give teammates a heads up that a defender is closing in from behind? After watching too many of my daughter's soccer games, they shout out "man on" to alert the person with the ball in that scenario. Is there a basketball equivalent?

My exact thoughts. I certainly warned my teammates in any low level league I was in. The exact words didn’t matter IMO.

 

[Captbluefin]

Solo fouling a 3 point shooter with score 5-0 at the beginning of the game and going down 8-0 was it.

Say what you want but we were not coming back from that and the team looked like they were sucking their thumbs.
Even Hurley looked freaked out right there beginning of the game.

 

[connVA]

At times I have to question the BBIQ of some of these kids (with the exception of AK, who will be an excellent head coach in the future). Silas continues to commit the same silly fouls and turnovers (e.g., high/exposed dribbling, etc.) despite Hurley repeatedly hammering him for both. Smith is improving on the Globetrotter overdribbling and futile attempts to drive at bigs with no time on the shot clock although it still comes back from time to time. Everyone chucking up those 28-foot 3-pointers. They should have been ready for SJ to hit them in the head with a 2 x 4 in one hand and punch them in the face with brass knuckles with the other (which always happens but this time with juice x10 after the humiliation a few weeks ago). I guess they were spending too much time reading their own headlines from the Xavier and Georgetown games and preparing to be re-annointed the fourth #1 after the Florida loss.

 

[jibsey]

Solo fouling a 3 point shooter with score 5-0 at the beginning of the game and going down 8-0 was it.

Say what you want but we were not coming back from that and the team looked like they were sucking their thumbs.
Even Hurley looked freaked out right there beginning of the game.

I don’t understand it either. He’s not going to block a 3 just go straight up to distract the shooter. I find fault with them calling a foul where the shot goes off cleanly and the hand touches the shooter’s hand after very lightly to get 3 shots.

 

[AdamaNation]

Besides Mullins doing a better job of protecting the ball and having better situational awareness, are players coached to give teammates a heads up that a defender is closing in from behind? After watching too many of my daughter's soccer games, they shout out "man on" to alert the person with the ball in that scenario. Is there a basketball equivalent?

No. D1 coaches at any school don’t know this.

 

[connVA]

No. D1 coaches at any school don’t know this.

It’s not a criticism dude. It’s an honest question