9pm
ESPNU
Late night for those of us in the East who are getting up there in years — or have small children.
Olivier Hanlan has been very hot for BC lately. In the last three games he had 32, 32 and 19 points. He went for 18 last time they played. That hasn’t helped BC too much as they have lost 8 straight and have not won a game in a month.
9-17 overall record, 1-13 at the bottom of the ACC. Needless to say a home loss would be devastating to Pitt.
Hanlan is going to get his points. He’s a talented scorer. The key is to make sure the rest of the BC squad doesn’t get in on the action. Aaron Brown is the other primary offensive threat for BC. The wing forward was held in check the last time the teams met.
Hopefully Pitt comes out fast and puts BC down quickly. I really do not want another painful, long slog like we saw in January.
Pitt isn’t perfect…Jamie isn’t perfect…but they’re our team and we’re behind them. Let’s win out and surprise some people!
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Basketball is a game of runs. Few teams keep a 15 point lead … you like to see it stop at around 8 … giving up the entire 15 was a little over dramatic … but that’s the way basketball goes. Especially when you’re playing a team with a go-to scorer like BC has.
It was good win. Important one. They definitely played a little tight in spots but the leaders stepped up when they had to. Wake is a different story – Pitt should not be in the same type of game they were with BC. BC’s better than their record. Wake is not.
Wake should be a nice tune up for the final two games against Miami and FSU. Get their house in order and close this thing out.
However, I agree wholeheartedly with what Len Elmore said about it last night on the telecast. Many people find it boring while others actually enjoy the execution.
Pitt had a great deal of success playing that style in what was year-in and year-out the best BB conference around … and I would bet that the majority here weren’t bored with that style back then.
In that year… Pitt avg’d 77.4 ppg, which was 29th in the country in scoring. (of 330 teams)
They should also make it a 30 second clock.
I think that these things would do a lot to improve the flow of the game.
08-09 was also the year that you had Blair dominating inside, and Young pump faking like crazy. When you have those kind of offensive weapons you don’t need to slow the game down.
Other than that Pitt has always been a better defensive than offensive team, until this year.
When was the last time a Pitt team ran with a team like NC, probably never.
When you don’t have prolific scorers, slogball is a good option to make you competitive.
We want all the bubble teams to lose, but it’s unlikely we’ll be battling NCST for a final spot. In fact, when the new bracketology comes out tomorrow, we will likely be in the 12/12 play in game. If we keep winning we’ll be in baring a loss. NCST on the otherhand will likely move up to a 9/10 seed.
Which was 51st in the country that year.
This year we are at 163rd at 68.1 ppg.
The 2 minute warning occurred at 9:47 pm EST. The game ended at 10:04. (I remember this because I wanted to catch all of ‘Shameless’ on Showtime which began at 10 that night)
I just completed a gross margin analysis for a bid that we will be negotiating next week, and was proud of myself … that is, until I saw your link
The process of fouling and taking numerous time out at the end of games is part of the game. You must make your foul shots and beat the press to win. While a little frustrating when you are the team with the lead, it is an obvious part of the game, which for the most part makes the game entertaining down the stretch. It is the number of stoppages throughout the game, which I find more frustrating, although I am a fan of the Dance Team, but sometimes it seems like they have more court time than the actual game.
Starting with the Notre Dame win (1/31), overall 70.1 ppg (conference only, not counting Bryant). 77.2 in the wins, 52.5 in the 2 losses.
Interestingly, Pitt is allowing 69.0 ppg in conference. 67.2 in wins, 71.1 in losses – that’s not much difference. 70.7 allowed at home, 66.8 away.
Remember when the NFL wanted to cut down on the overall time of their game broadcasts about a decade ago? Instead of cutting out the TV timeouts after the kickoff, they decided to let the clock continue to run even if runner goes out of bounds … unless it isunder 2 minutes left in the half or game.
I love the fact that Amare is there. This is the kid that when his father left for Africa, he was left to fend for himself in his early teens, He stayed at a handful of different locations, and at times in vacant building in Philly before his coach took in him when he was a junior. Yet, Amare never lost focus on what was important.
Don’t think I ever rooted so hard for a kid to graduate as I do for Amare … (although Nate Byham who was raised by his grandfather was also high on the list)
Chris Jones took the night off and Newkirk looks totally lost.
Dr. No must be healthy because he was back in action but didn’t look prepared
Lunardi is now saying we could lose one and still maybe get in.
Remember, Pitt Football before TV timeouts. What a difference. Now you have to go to a high school game for that experience.
Soph Donvan Jeter had 21 pts and 11 reb. Again, according to Rivals, he is offered by Pitt in both BB and FB
You know we are Old Guys when we can remember when the NIT was by far the more prestigious of the two BB tournaments – the NCAA played 2nd fiddle for a long time before the NCAA organization knew it had a TV cash cow on hand.
I’m about to post up a looong article on recruiting and attrition of the rosters over the years – since we don’t have another BB game for four days It will get some good discussion to get us ready for March and spring practices.
At this point anything is worth a try. JD is probably thinking that too!
The biggest problem with college ball is spacing. They need to bump out the 3 point line and create more space under the basket. More space = more good shots = more scoring.
But I agree he has along way to go before he plays in the NBA let alone a lottery pick.
wbb, I think Jones ball handling needs to improve a great deal if he is to make a living playing ball.
And as of right now, against better players he can’t create his own shot. He could against BC, but again I mean better players. BC’s front line is pretty lame.
Which is why Young went off as well.
UVA just destroyed Wake tonite, 70-34. Now how they will effect how Wake plays on Sunday is anybody’s guess. Manning will be working them harder no doubt.
It wont help our RPI, but VT improving their numbers could help our resume, especially if they can get in the top 200 rpi. I can also see the committee not knocking us so bad if VT can pull it off against one of the tournament 1 seeds.
But a lottery pick ? somebody must be on the pipe.
“It’s obviously an encouraging comment by Coach to say shoot the basketball,” Artis said. “But if he didn’t say that, I would shoot the basketball as well. I think the other guys would not be so scared to shoot as well, worried about being taken out.”
One wonders how much better the team would be now, if during the non-con…the handcuffs would have been taken off the shooters on this team.
It’s hard to be good, when you play tentatively.
Ranked No. 128 in the 247Sports Composite, Dillard has Purdue leading Pittsburgh in his Crystal Ball with Pittsburgh trending.
He is also the HS teammate of 6’9″ recruit Diallo who is ranked No. 6 – if Jamie lands these three in one class, the downward trend will have turned up. Two of three would be great!
HTP!
But all of what wardapalooza was proposing was the elimation of maybe 1 or 2 timeouts per game. I have seen a large handful of times when a coach will call a TO, and then once the ball is put into play, there is a stoppage within seconds that has occurred under the 16, 12, 8 or 4 minute mark. Thus, you have the scenario where 2 timeouts are called within a small handful of seconds … which IMO silly.
This reminds me of the current NFL, after a TD or FG. Many times now, with the ball being kickoffed from the 40, it results in a touchback. Thus, you have the scenario where after the score, there is 3-4 minutes of commercials … then the ball is kicked resulting in a touchback, and with no time taken off the score clock … we are stuck watching another 3 minutes of commercials. Again, very silly.
Now college FB has done that also, but to a much lesser extent.
I think I can tolerate the shot clock at 30, but no lower. I think that will make good defenses even better, and bad or mediocre offenses especially ones where they have no single player who can create his own shot, much worse. We will see much more outside shooting with clanking misses an long rebounds from those shots.
Shooters will be at a premium, but there are only so many of those to go around.
IMO,, it would be UGLY…..unless we found Pitt with a couple of Seth Curry’s over the next few years;).
Here is Amara’s amazing story .. hard to not pull for him
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Just put JR and Cam on him and they’ll hold him to 29 in 4 minutes and both foul out. Just hope we are up by 20 when he starts that stretch :).
Pitt1972, maybe college basketball was better years ago when all the NBA did was ISO plays, but if you like basketball you need to watch the Western Conference playoffs in about a month or so.
Right now college basketball is a whole bunch of grindfests, as seen by it maybe being the slowest paced season ever. It’s barely watchable. The slowest paced team in the NBA would be the second fastest team in NCAA and would only have 12 turnovers per game putting them in the top half of the NCAA. So really a 24 second shot clock would add at least 30 extra possessions in a game and add maybe a couple turnovers. Definitely a trade I’d make.
wbb, exactly with the timeouts, the back to back full timeouts is a killer. It ruins any flow to a game. Also if TV timeouts count against a team that’s one or two less that Dixon and other coaches can overuse at the end of the game.
Yea it would be awesome (kind of hate that word since Dicky V) if we landed all 3 of them.
Hitting the trifecta…..it would be !
Also the game is now perimeter driven since the 3 point line is only a 20 footer, so that is driving down FG % since so many 3’s are being taken.
The 3 point line needs moved back, which would bring back more penetration to the hoop, driving dunks and passes into the big men on the blocks.
While I was a long distance shooter myself, I really don’t want to watch a bunch on perimeter shooters hoisting up 20-23 footers, of which they miss roughly 66% of the time.
Was it eaten during the 2 1/2 hour break between 5:50 & 8:20 comment disruption yesterday PM.
Glad I’m retired. I hated when the computer ate my reports at work.
I still think that because of the frequent and long media time outs, that eliminating one of the coaches timeouts and making one more a thirty second TO, would help. I like wbb’s idea of making one of the coaches TO’s the media TO if possible. Anything to cut down stoppages of play a little bit. I also proposed 30 seconds. I don’t think this would make the college game more like the NBA. With 30 seconds you still have to play defense which is absent in the Pro game by choice.
These changes would only add a few more more possessions and make the flow of the game slightly better.
I think a longer 3 point line would help improve the flow of the game as well.
I don’t watch the NBA either, because there is no D till the play-offs. I don’t think a 30 second clock eliminates D, if anything it eliminates 5 seconds of standing inside the half court line waiting for the clock to run.
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Younger teams tend to play down to the competition. Plus how often do you win a game when a guy on the other teams torches you for 39?
College basketball is never that exciting with the 35 second shot clock and over coaching throughout the NCAA. The real elite basketball is in the NBA in the playoffs.