Luke is running the show. I’m on DVR delay yet again.
Gametime is 7pm on ESPN2, give or take the length of the Maryland-Illinois game.
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As someone who owns the game and has read reviews of it as well, NBA2k11 is awesome, and has gotten awesome reviews.
I can’t fault 2k for hyping the hell out of it.
And like the good Reverend said… WHEW!!!!!
Agree with Pitt60. They need to keep up the intensity when they have a chance to put a team away instead of getting careless and allowing the opponent to hang around. Don’t know if my heart can take a full season of games like these past two.
Good to win a tourney at the Garden once again. Hope it carries over to the BE tourney later in the season.
Curious why they don’t look to the post a bit more and at least try to get McGhee, Zanna, or Taylor some looks inside. Getting ALL of your points from the perimeter or off drives to the baskets makes things a lot tougher.
Still like Zanna more than Robinson but I bet Nas gets more of the minutes going forward. I’m not sure why – good glue guy but ideally I think he plays 10-15 minutes a game.
My guess is that most games will be like the last two and the URI game – Pitt will control the game, be in the lead for most of it, but never blow a team away. I think that’s how they’re built this year. It makes it stressful for a fan, but hey, they’re 5-0. Pretty good start.
That said, I’ll take 5-0 with wins over Rhode Island as well as Maryland and Texas on a neutral court. We’re deep and talented and there’s plenty of room for improvement. Dixon’s biggest challenge may be managing minutes and finding the right mix. There’s too much talent to sit idle at the end of the bench.
Love that we’re playing a tougher non-con schedule than usual. So much more helpful than beating up on lesser opponents. We have some warts and I’d rather know about them sooner rather than later.
Should be some good games coming up against Robert Morris, Penn and Duquesne.
Still looks like Taylor has trouble playing with his back to the basket on O, and he still brings the ball too low to the floor thereby getiing the ball stripped too ften.
Finally, this is the 3rd game I watched on TV this year, and the 3rd time that I heard at halftime that Pitt missed too many layups and easy baskets
In ken pomeroys rankings, which I believe are far more accurate than the polls, Texas is ranked 8th, Maryland 27th. We beat two good teams this weekend, despite mediocre offensive performances by Pitt.
The other big advantage to three guards, Brown is sitting next to Knight on the bench. It seems like every time the other team goes on a run to get back in the game it is because Brown gets picked and his man hits a three. Brown is not a reliable offensive player either. He misses too many wide open shots. There was a stretch in the second half where he missed two open threes and his man hit two open threes, a 12 point swing at a time when Pitt could have put the game away. Wanamaker is at least slightly more reliable on both ends of the floor.
I would like to see the three guards play with Zanna and McGhee. Jamie had them in there with Robinson and Taylor.
Pitt desperately needs to get SOME offense out of their bigs. Right now they’re getting next to nothing. It would help them tremendously to have some low post scoring. It would open things up for guards and it would let Pitt be more consistent on offense.
Zanna has the most potential to give them some scoring from the 4 spot. But he isn’t a post up offensive player. So I am afraid that low post scoring in the half court set is NOT going to be in the cards for pitt this season.
But, hey a win is a win. I’ll take a bunch of these hard fought close wins.
Tonight, the defensive effort was outstanding. We made Texas play our game. I liked Brown’s intensity, so I can live with a few questionable decisions. Taylor’s nickname should be “one dunk”, because that seems to be what he is good for. One spectacular stuff a game. But saw clear improvement over Thursday with everyone else. Md was a letdown, but really encouraged by this one.
Do we have to play a football game today?
He does not have tons of talent, but his basketball IQ is off the charts.
I’ll put a stake in the ground today…we shoot over 70% from the line and this team wins the Big East and makes Elite 8. They don’t and it could be an early exit in March. We have the players and the coach, but as evidenced this week, tournaments are won on the FREE THROW line.
In watching this game on delay, Dickie V is a really annoying color guy, more so than usual.
Anyway, we’re well on our way to the tournament, and until then, in my eyes, its all just practice.