I want to be optimistic. Really. Just can’t be dishonest about the chances tonight, so I’m going with gallows humor.
Duke is favored by nearly 15 points. It is the start of the brutal gauntlet of ACC games, and Pitt struggled through the easier portion. This is on the road at Cameron. Against a top-10 (15?) team.
Could Pitt pull an upset? Sure. Do I really believe it could happen. Not after watching the way the Blue Devils shut down Louisville on Saturday.7pm start. Big Monday ESPN game. Pitt hasn’t exactly played up to an opponent this year, would love to see this change the script.
Melvin Bennett was worth the price of admission and he could flop better than any Dukie that ever played the game.
The toughest players were Clancy,Blair, and Krauser. Anybody that doesn’t think Krauser belongs had to miss the time he popped the Villanova guards eye out of his head in the Garden. Blair tossed Thabeets but Clancy was like having King Kong in the middle if the game was on the line.
Comment by spiritofsection22 01.20.15 @ 2:18 pm
Hey SOS, I’m with you on George Allen AND I was at Pitt for those years and didn’t miss many if any games at the Fieldhouse.
Vaughn, Culbertson, David and earlier Clancy are who come to mind for me. George Allen only coached the Redskins in my fogged, ageing mind!?!?!?!?!
See it does matter where one goes to school. ha
So therefore he got the ‘short shrift’ from the BigEast announcers.
Also a 6’$’ PG 4 stars but only averages about 8 pts. a game.
And though he couldn’t create his own shot, if he was open he was pretty good from 3.
Damon Wilson Our Savior New American 47 15 59 16.5 ppg
Cheick Diallo Our Savior New American 52 0 17 15.1 ppg
Davon Dillard Our Savior New American 56 21 27 16.8 ppg
Kid appears to be able to penetrate and either score or get fouled.
Knight did not have an All-American playing with him or anything like the team Smith had, Smith was a great player. Knight’s team had one 6’8″ player who was marginal so for 80% of the game at 6’6″ Knight was the tallest Pitt player on the floor.
If the 3 point shot was in play he would of been impossible to stop then he was. He could make his own shot from anywhere on the floor and was a master at taking it to the rim.
He lead the team in rebounds and scoring. He was an amazing player to watch; selfless but dominant when the game was on the line. With him Pitt won 21 straight victories half of them with him playing with a bad right shoulder taped.
The best I ever saw.
With four seconds left, Pitt let Goheen get the in bound pass, dibble up the court completely uncontested. No one picked him up until he got to the three point line. We all know the rest.
Pitt still should have taken care of business in OT, especially with Perdue on the bench.
Villanova did sink 20 out of 21 foul shots as I recall. That team sure had heart. Levance and Dujuan were very unique and special talents and Sam Young had the best jump fake I ever saw.
I am more optimistic about next year than you. Dixon will find an Ontario Lett somewhere. Maybe his name is Rozelle Nix. Pitt will be in the top 20 every week.
And in 2 years, if Young doesn’t leave early for the NBA, we will be a #1 or #2 seed in the NCAA tournament.
But better would probably still only be 5th in the ACC.
You can see his current statistics at the following website:
“He averages 11 points and 9.1 rebounds, while shooting 56.3 percent from the field and 65.7 percent from the foul line.
“Moreover, Nix averages 32 minutes. A year ago, Nix — who once weighed almost 400 pounds — was in the process of losing nearly 100 pounds and couldn’t play more than a couple of minutes at a time.
“He’s been playing more because he has stamina with him losing weight,” said Lett, who works with Nix to help develop his low-post game.
“Nix’s rebounding prowess has been impressive. In a game against Chipola (Fla.) College — an opponent featuring 7-0, 220-pound Clemson commit Legend Robertin — Nix was held to six points but grabbed 13 rebounds in 29 minutes. Nix added 20 points on 8-for-11 shooting and 16 rebounds in a season-high 35 minutes against Northwest Florida State College.
Howard