College basketball kicked off today. Pitt is opening with Savannah State. It’s 7pm It’s on ESPN3.com. SVSU is a MEAC team.
Figure it should be a sloppy game. Even with a couple exhibitions under the belt, there’s plenty of changes on the roster. Add in the rules and enforcement changes for officials and there should be plenty of opportunities to see Pitt players practicing free throws.
Just going to chill in front of the computer and pop open a deuce of Tenacious Wee Aged in Eagle Rare Barrels from Voodoo Brewery (thanks again to Curt).
I’m on tape delay until after dinner…
Here you go bro, click on Gametracker.
Mr. Hawaii in basketball.
I give you Joshua Ko.
Love it I use to live in Hawaii. Great story, this kid can shoot.
Would have really liked to see Pitt really push the tempo in this type of game and score 100.
But overall a very good effort, and they did what I said they would……win by at least 30 pts.
H2P !
He showed the experience of two years in a Big East program, playing against top competition.
I would like to see Randall at the 5 and Zanna at the 4. Randall seems much more comfortable defending the post and playing with his back to the basket.
Seems to be a lot more extensive story than were use to seeing from the hometown papers and some other sports sites. Enjoy.
Randall ends up with a Double/Double (12 & 12) in his Panther debut. That would be huge if he can be a decent contributor this year. As like xf said Z isn’t the best post defender and not great with back to basket.
Although that could eat into Young’s PT if Z is moved to PF.
It was only a tune-up, but Wright looks better, Robinson has slimmed down, should be quicker and has been working on his shot. Randall fits a big need, Newkirk looks like he belongs and is much further along, than most of our previous freshman guards.
Young appears to be as advertised, played the most minutes. Both he and Artis ball handle well for big guys.
Impressed with how Jamie has filled the needs.
Overall success still depends on Zanna and Patterson, but team looks to be deeper than expected, with time to improve before the ACC debut.
One can only dream, what might have been with Adams.
The mystery is how did he not get any offers and end up 6,000 miles from home in the Burgh?
I bet Mr. Ko saw one of our many games telecasted over the last several years and fell in love with PITT and The Zoo. Who wouldn’t ?
And I wouldn’t write him off so soon, he’s only a freshman, needs to hit the weights, etc. but you can see the kid is a shooter/scorer. And down the road he could be a very deadly stationary type/off the screen type, 3 point shooter off the bench. A Zone buster perhaps.
Lots of quotes from Rudolph & House. Which are always somewhat humorous. Looks like ND has a pretty fearsome D-Line. Several All-Americans.
We won by a much larger margin. And it was 40-13 at halftime. Think I read that was the 3rd fewest points we’ve allowed in one half.
We came out focused and blew them off the court. Which is what we should always do to rent-a-win teams. Fresno State Bulldogs up next.
In the last many years they’ve always had a hiccup, losing to someone they shouldn’t have in ACC play.
FSU 52…..Wake Forest 0 middle 3rd Q
Good question, he’s always been a model citizen at PITT from my understanding. Maybe it was just something as minor as being late for a team meeting or something on that order.
It worked out good for Randall, with a Double/Double in his debut. Nice to know we have a legit backup at Center.
4rth Q.
28-0 mid 3rd Q
Not missing Renner at all. They were playing 2 QB’s pretty much all year anyway. Williams being the other one.
Kudo’s to whoever was the announce of the Louisville-UCONN game last night. People had it on in the other room, I wasn’t watching, but I heard the promo’s many times for the game tonight, and everytime, this particular announcer said,
“tomorrow night at 8pm, Pitt vs. Notre Dame”
Never said Pittsburgh once. Thank you whoever you were. And, it was a younger voice too.
A Mandingo moment. Yea like Susan George. haha
You’ll be happy to know the play by play announcer for Tarheel football (and bball btw) referred to UNC traveling to PITT later in the season to take on the Panthers.
Good day so far, Pedo’s lose again. They’re program is dropping below Minnesota’s. And they lost to annual big joke doormat Indiana. Pedo State,……the new doormat of the Big Joke.
UNC 45
UVA 14
Just our offense perhaps, funny all these teams can protect their QB’s against UVA but us. Even Ball State.
Something is definitely amiss here. Pitt’s O-linemen, can they be this bad. It’s a matter of holding your blocks on pass plays and driving off the ball on run plays.
I just understand it, Hefner is supposed to be a NFL type coach. All of our starting O-lineman were recruited by other D1 programs, except for Clemmings(who was heavily recruited as a DE) and he’s likely possibly the best of the bunch right now. And he’s had the least coaching. lol
It also looked like Pitt was more active on defense. They were switching on everything, ball screens, cuts, off ball screens. They can do that this, more than other years, because their defenders are pretty versatile, most can gaurd three spots. They have big guards, and mobile bigs. The downside in all that switching was they left a bunch of people open. Savanah wasn’t good enough to make them pay. Coming out of the weak non-con, Pitt should have the rotation and responsibilities down and they’ll be pretty good defensively.
Glad to see Randall play well. Pitt desperately needs some bulk down low. Other newcomers, Young and Newkirk are for real. Starting to get a little more optimistic, but we won’t really know anything until mid January.
A little higher octane offense?