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January 20, 2012

Battle of the Bricks Is Possible

Filed under: Basketball,Opponent(s) — Chas @ 11:34 am

One of the most frustrating things during this losing streak. At least from my perspective. Has not been the turnovers. Not the lapses in defense. It has been missing the easy ones. The bunnies. The open look. The lay-ups. We saw it against Syracuse. Saw it in several of the games. Point blank misses.

Now comes Louisville to the Pete. Guess who is having similar issues.

As much as the injuries, the plague of bad shooting by these guys is difficult to understand. They’ve missed layups. They’ve missed shots in the paint. And the threes? Woeful.

With Kuric injured, Pitino has only two players on the roster shooting better than 33 percent from the arc. If you’re not going to overwhelm teams with talent (and this team never was), and if your zone defense and ball containment are suspect (and this team’s are), you’d better be able to execute on offense and shoot the basketball.

You can draw up all the X-and-O stuff you want. You can discuss personnel all day. If this team doesn’t start making some of the open shots it has been missing, none of the rest will matter. The Cards don’t need a doctor. They need a shot doctor.

Well, Kuric is expected to be ready for the Pitt game, but my god swap out Cards, Kuric and Pitino with Pitt, Woodall and Dixon and you could use it to describe Pitt right now.





I’m predicting that Pitt will end their losing streak ….. but maybe not tomorrow night

Comment by wbb 01.20.12 @ 12:03 pm

I will be watching this game but I better not have to replace another TV after it.

Comment by TX Panther 01.20.12 @ 12:10 pm

Lovely, Gameday is coming to The Pete and we got two teams who can’t hit the broad side of a barn with a basketball.

Can you say…….Brick City.

Comment by Emel 01.20.12 @ 12:19 pm

lol wbb

Nice Hedge. Ever work on Wall Street ?

Comment by Emel 01.20.12 @ 12:20 pm

No, I’m afraid I’m one of the 99%

Comment by wbb 01.20.12 @ 12:32 pm

A few less bricks and a few foul shots and the Panthers could have returned from Syracuse a winner. Hopefully being in the friendly confines of the Pete will improve the ability to finish. Really the worst shooting were from the shots inside, as Chas says above, the bunnies. I would have liked them to have ended the losing streak at Syracuse, but ending it against Pitino on Gameday is almost as good. Go Panthers.

Comment by Justinian 01.20.12 @ 1:07 pm

Except Louisville can still win a game. Tomorrow is a horrible matchup. We had a better chance against Cuse. Gonna get trounced I’m afraid

Comment by Tony C 01.20.12 @ 1:10 pm

How did the ‘friendly confines’ do vs Rutgers?

Comment by wbb 01.20.12 @ 1:13 pm

Comment by wbb 01.20.12 @ 2:34 pm

“With Kuric injured, Pitino has only two players on the roster shooting better than 33 percent from the arc.”
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When you hear updates like this in the media, playing against Pitt is historically when bad shooters come out of their shells. Let’s hope that doesn’t happen tomorrow night.

Comment by Lou 01.20.12 @ 3:26 pm

I just hope this isn’t one of those games where a cold visiting team gets hot and shoots 65+%. Makes it even more frustrating to watch.

Comment by silverfox 01.20.12 @ 4:21 pm

As of yesterday, Kuric was doubtful.

Comment by Bethlehemjohn 01.20.12 @ 4:37 pm

A guess a maybe pitts new DL coach will be
Al holcomb or peter hansen

Comment by FRANKCAN 01.20.12 @ 8:08 pm

Dokish just tweeted that he’s hearing Holcomb.

Comment by Mike 01.20.12 @ 10:00 pm

i beat him to the news bye 2 hours mike you are my witness and know one told me i just got it bye hard work
Dan and bossdaws give me some love pk were are you

Comment by FRANKCAN 01.20.12 @ 10:51 pm

You da man, Frankcan. Undisputed champ of scoops! Dokish has nothing on you.

Comment by Bossdaws 01.21.12 @ 9:46 am

As for missing the bunny shots … they have been killing me too … It seems to me that Pitt could be much more aggressive about DUNKING the ball instead of missing these bunnies … is it just me who thinks that they are timid when they are open for a bunny shot under the rim?

Comment by KPCSKI 01.21.12 @ 11:44 am

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