For us anyways. Buzz Williams made the surprising jump to VT last spring. As well as VT making the surprising financial commitment to him. As tough and miserable as his Marquette teams have made Pitt at times, he will always hold a special place in my heart for pissing off WVU fans by dancing a bit to “Country Roads” after knocking off the Hoopies.
7pm on ESPNU. I’m just getting home in time.
Artis and Young have been relatively consistent offensively. Let’s see if more than one guard can help with the offense tonight.
And for our sake ! (and our liver’s sake)
Agree with those above on the need to foul and not give them a 3 pt opportunity, and the time-outs at the end helped VT more than Pitt.
I do not agree that Louisville took it easy on us Sunday but I’ve tended to see ACC coaches support their in conference opponent for the good of the whole.
All Pitt losses this year: Opponent scores 68 or more.
Dino Gaudio – who was not an ACC coach for long – candidly pointed out the defensive failings last night – Jones and Newkirk collapse to the paint instead of sticking with their guy on the wing, Young and Artis don’t cover the roll guy quickly enough. Like someone said, Jones has an IQ of 0, and I’d put Newkirk in there with him. Our guys are not good defensively, and we need to get back to that. It might take a little time to get our recruiting back to those type of kids, but we need it with Dixon’s philosophies.
Nuff said.
We have terrible outside shooting the majority of the time, have trouble penetrating, and constantly turn the ball over. Good grief.
This team will be home watching All tournaments no matter what initials they have – from Oakland.
I watched the last 5 minutes of the game and the OT, he lost control of the game with the TOs…I think the game has passed him by!
Someone mentioned how tight Newk played, maybe he’s on such a short leash he’s more afraid of what not to do, versus playing the game.
JR’s man scored 3-3PTers down the stretch, why was he left alone?
There is no continuity, VT’s ball movement was so superior to Pitt it was ridiculous. Turnovers are one thing but unforced errors are not acceptable this late in the year.
I don’t understand why we give up so many uncontested threes. Also, if you are going to foul a guy making a layup make sure he dos not make the layup.
I can see doubling Okafor but there was no need to double the VT post men, all you had to do was front them.
they won’t contribute till 2018.
They have to learn how to play Jamie’s way, behind Haughton and Uchebo.
Then a year of learning how to play defense.
So, we’re a long way off from seeing them.
coming next year, so he has a year to learn how to play the point the way it was meant to be
played under James Robinson!!
If Jamie wants to save his job he should recruit good street ball players and let them play. Micromanaging just does not work with 100 IQ people because they just don’t listen or can’t comprehend what they are supposed to do.
When he gets in the lane, it’s like the lane becomes quicksand. ha
And finally none of them can defend worth crap except for Wright and he’s not as good this year either.
As opposing guard whoever they are, routinely blow by all of them and get right to the hoop.
There’s nothing that any of them do extremely well or even just good. They are all below average and as a group they stink.
We get almost none of that at all. As when Robinson tries to do it, he mostly gets stuck in the lane, cause he can’t finish and since no big has to switch off on help defense, there are no open passes to our un-open bigs. He is then forced to throw up some funky looking off balance shot, that is either swatted or harmlessly bounces off the rim.
Newkirk is much quicker off the dribble and the bounce, but he is not yet a very good finisher, except on the break, where he is getting better at throwing it down. In the half-court he is struggling, with not being able to finish as well, and he doesn’t get the calls much on the bumps and strips of the ball so he loses it(turns it over).
And of course, as we know we get almost no production from the 3 point line from the guards, unless Newkirk is on or Robinson gets lucky.
So they can’t penetrate, the can’t defend and they don’t shoot 3’s well. So how can the guards not be a problem.
And since guards control the flow of the offense, this is why our offense looks so disjointed at times.
You can’t win (except over rent-a-wins & bottom tier teams) with that kind of guard play.
Our guards are worse because they are running the show now. No Patterson.
We also had a much deeper bench, with Moore, Ziegler and Durand Durand. Wright was the 10th man.
His first year he had Woodall running the show.
His 2nd year he had Lamar running the show.
Both of those players led the team in assists in those year, not Robinson.
This is certainly Robinson’s team now.
Woodall was also the 6th man on his HS team.
Damon Wilson will be a novelty.
The one game Birch got some minutes, against Penn, when Sleepy couldn’t play, he responded with a Double/Double.