No one is going to pretend that last night was a good win for Pitt. All that can be said right now is that it did not become a bad loss. Lord knows that Pitt tried at times to do that.
The defense has somehow continued to get worse. Coach Jamie Dixon will offer the bald-faced lie that the defense is starting to improve as he tries to be positive.
“We are competing, we are playing hard, I wish more of our shots would fall but right now that’s where we are,” Dixon said. “I believe we are going to get better defensively. We’ve done it over the years. It has to come for us.
“But we are getting offensive rebounds and that speaks to how hard we are playing. We know we are not a perfect team right now. We are not giving up, it is just more reflective of how tough our league is, and that’s the challenges we have.”
Pitt took a ton of shots last night because they got a lot of offensive rebounds on all their misses. Their defense was something horrid. Wake Forest shot over 50% for the game — but was somehow only 50% on FTs.
