Open comments. I’ll be watching the game and posting some stuff. Not a full liveblog. Tonight’s adult beverage to get me through is the the Dalmore Single Malt Scotch, Cigar Malt.
7:20: Whenever there is a shot by Pitt, there is no one else besides Gray under the basket. Making any attempt at a rebound a 1-on-3 battle. Gray had better be well conditioned. The plan for every team is to draw Gray as far from under the basket on defense as possible.
Not a pretty start for either team, but I don’t like what I’m seeing from Pitt’s rebounding effort. Pitt is 1-4 on FTs.
7:35: Majerus after Benjamin’s 3 in the corner. “Pitt finally with some ball movement.” Yep. Too much standing around on offense.
The good news for Pitt is that the game is still very close. Pitt can adjust and hopefully get some coffee or something for the second half.
7:47: Pitt trailing at the half, but only by 1. 34-33.
Coach Dixon heading into the lockerroom. As you expect just positive. Folks, the day he rips his team or anything like that at halftime is the day we know pressure is getting to him.
Pitt needs to find Gray. Period. They aren’t even trying to get him the ball. Part of that is Pitt seemed to have a bit more trouble than expected with the zone.
I was really scared when Cook came down badly and seemed to be grabbing his groin, but he seems okay by the end of the half.
I’m really bothered by the poor rebounding. None of the guys at power forward are providing much.
8:04: Syracuse has to burn an early TO as Pitt goes on a 7-0 run in the first 1:12. Much better energy coming out of the break.
8:10: Terrance Roberts is flat on his back. His face ran right into Kendall. Looked accidental, but he staggered down.
8:25: Levance Fields has gotten so aggressive on offense the last couple weeks. And he is 8-13 tonight.
Roberts for Syracuse is getting stitches and checked for a concussion.
8:37: Syracuse is having Krauser flashbacks with the way Fields has played.
Harris for ‘Cuse is showing why Pitt wanted him badly.
Rick Majerus is sticking to his talking points about Ramon. Kind of comical.
Syracuse is making its push, Pitt has to slow it down.
8:58: Pitt wins by 8, 74-66.
Levance Fields for the post-game interview. Talked about the team, and how Gray opens things up for the others and he just happened to be knocking them down.
I nice road win against a place that used to be a house of horrors until the new century.
The post-game credits to Pitt’s mental toughness and not panicking under pressure. Bardo in the studio may be the first analyst to say that any player for Pitt can and will step up — rather than complaining about the lack of a go to guy.
It’s early, but looking bad so far. Syracuse came out and missed a bunch of shots and we were still behind because everyone suddenly thought they were Dale Ellis. Oh, and Gray has to make those putbacks. I’m done.
Now if only he could shoot and defend a little better…
Majerus was not impressed.
Pulled out to the six point lead.
And, please, Mr. Dixon, get Sam Young and Ronald Ramon on the floor.
It’s usually just stupidity by the guy who fouls him. Probably the same reason why we aren’t getting it down low into Gray.
Just a bunch of stupidity…
Good point, Omar, about the confusion of the players with the defense. All we heard all week was about Pitt having to play against the zone. You would think that they would at least prepare for the possibility of a switch.
PittHoops, you are probably right. But at least there’s the chance of him getting fouled if he goes to the hoop. He’ll probably miss both free throws, but maybe then Young or Benjamin will get a rebound. See, I’ve got this whole thing worked out. 😀
So in an effort to not confuse Jon, basically the answer is you don’t want to foul someone going to the hoop unless it’s a situation where the person is going to get an easy, uncontested layup.
On a side note, we need to extend this lead or Syracuse is going to get right back in it.
On the good side, Pitt really stepped up their play in the 2nd half.
We didn’t get an awful lot from our frontcourt and still won comfortably. That is a very good sign. Fields is awesome. Still thing Young needs to play more, but now I am nitpicking. Last thing, Syracuse is very undisciplined and has a ton of work to do to make the tournament.
The one moment in game that really impressed me was in the latter stages of the game when the Cuse D was playing like he** to deny the pass into the hole in the zone. Graves put a move on and stepped inside of it and dished it to the open man for the J. It’s what you need to do against Cuse’s vaunted zone.
Also, PITT football got a great commit today from Mo Williams – a 6’3″, 4 star WR who could have gone a lot of other places. He had offers from PSU, WVU, Iowa and Maryland – and still chose the Panthers. This after PITT not making a bowl. This is a good recruiting coup for DW and shows that there is still buy-in from the recruits, coaches and parents.
On the positive side, Levance was awesome, Benjamin was solid, when he was in, and Graves hit some big shots (although he took one or two bad ones).
Rebounding and hustle continue to be an issue. But they hit big shots when they needed them – on the road, to boot – so that’s a very important sign.
good post about benjamin…..he’s great to have off the bench, and those 2 threes kept us in the game in the first half………
I’m worried the Big East is down SO FAR that we’re going to watch Pitt win 12 games or so without great efforts and then need more when it comes to March.
One other comment…..why do Gray and Kendall have to spend so much time on the court together? It makes for a really slow, unathletic frontcourt. I’d like to see Dixon let Kendall have some minutes backing up Gray and get Young in the game more alongside both of them.
Again…I’m happy with any road win, but Boeheim’s team looked a mess and Pitt didn’t look a whole lot better for large stretches of that game.
However, it looks like sometimes he gets ignored on offense. And when he’s not being ignored, Pitt can’t find a way to get him the ball (ala late in the game last night).
In the past three games, he’s had a TOTAL of 19 points. The first thing to point out is that Pitt won ALL of those games. I don’t place that lack of scoring on Gray because it wasn’t really his fault as he got less than ten FG attempts in each game. So I don’t think he’s getting the ball enough.
By the way, seems like we settled for too many outside shots in the first half without even looking inside.
Back to the post.
To me, he should be getting about 13-15 shots a game. For those that think that’s too much and not possible, he managed to get 16 off in only 25 minutes against Northeastern this year (I know, I know – Northeastern is a nobody. True, but I’m just using the stat to show it’s possible).
I’m not saying he should be in there forcing shots, but I just think that for them to go far, they’ve got to go to him a little more. When he’s generally the tallest guy on the court, why not take advantage of high-percentage shots? Not to mention he can also step out a little bit and shoot mid-range jumpers.
Syracuse had a good strategy on defense early and Pitt was confused. We really calmed down late in the half and made some big baskets. The second half was picture perfect offensive execution. If we keep knocking down these perimeter shots, then things will open up significantly for Gray. The defense was much better last night and that is the most important takeaway from yesterday’s game. Graves played a great game against Nichols.
And again, I’m not saying for him to force shots (or for the players to force the ball in the paint). If it’s not there, then it’s not there. But if defenses play him as tightly as they did last night, can’t we run some plays or set screens to get him more open? It seems when he’s not open, that the players spend time trying to find the first open 3-point shot they can.
A big benefit to him being covered so much is that other players are getting some open looks. But if Pitt can’t hit the shots (as they couldn’t in the first half last night), that could cost us a big game down the stretch.
Maybe I’m wrong on this, but it seems like he could use a few more looks.
If we continue to share the ball like we have, then we will get really good shots for everyone else. Just have to knock down the open jump shots and drive to the hoop when they over play the three. If our guards continue their solid play, Fields especially, then things will get a lot easier for Gray. Of course there will be nights when we struggle, but so far the offense has been very smooth. Even in our losses we played well offensively.
The defense was much better yesterday and that is great news. Hopefully Dixon plays Kendall less at the 4 for Young. Kendall can make up the lost minutes at the 4 by backing up Gray at the 5. Young really helps us in every aspect of the game relative to Kendall at power forward. However, I am not that optimistic about seeing this particular change.
If you saw the same team that played against Wisconsin you are crazy. Pitt played much better defense last night. Look at the stats. Tucker went for 32 against pitt on something like 11-17 and Nichols (who averaged 26 his past 5 games) scored 11 on 4-15. Not even close to the same production. Pitt was much better last night than at Wisconsin.
I would like to see them switch Kendall to back-up center on a more consistant basis.
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