Potential Lineup

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peter

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Re: Potential Lineup
« Reply #20 on: November 23, 2009, 12:36:46 PM »
Guys, I think offensively we've been pretty decent.  The ball seems to avoid Justin Burrell, and I don't think it's all on him - it's kind of like how Rutgers seems to forget about Echenique the moment the defense slides one step in his way.  In Rutgers' case, they have a more dominant post option than Justin has showed, and in St. John's case it's not that they want to avoid Justin, it's that the idea is to have a fast-paced game... so the guys are putting up the first half-decent shot they have.

That's a problem in and of itself, especially with Brownlee, who seems to have shot some "bad idea" shots.  But that's ok; they're better at scoring than they've been in years so far.  It's not just overpowering slow, weak opponents - they're hitting real jump shots.  Personally, I think they should be driving and drawing fouls, but the offense isn't bad.

The defense, on the other hand, is appalling.  And Poison has it right - the team just seems to not defend the pick and roll.  And that's strange, because they've been picked and rolled for years.  And the same guys have played for 2+ years; you'd think they'd be telepathic on defense by now. Coupled with guys out of position on their OWN man, you get a lot of open shots on the perimeter and at the basket - both high percentage places.  If they were getting teams to shoot ONLY long 2's, the defense would be fantastic. 

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Re: Potential Lineup
« Reply #21 on: November 23, 2009, 02:06:45 PM »
In the past, when we couldn't score, it was clear that it was going to be a very long year.
This year however, we can score the ball.

Roberts has to work on the defense's awareness. I think the guys are trying, but they are not playing defense as a team. We see nice recovery blocks by Horne, but he shouldn't be getting dusted on the backdoor cut. It's the IVY, what play did he think they were going to run?


Re: Potential Lineup
« Reply #22 on: November 23, 2009, 05:37:23 PM »
Burrell isn't the problem offensively.
Boothe is. 

It's a free country and all Michael...but bad mouthing the guy who's late game charity stripe heroics have won 2 out of our 3 games seems misplaced and curious at best.


Re: Potential Lineup
« Reply #23 on: November 23, 2009, 10:37:03 PM »
 5 minutes into his first game..Mason jr will be injured unfortunately..

 just tell boothe if u shoot you are benched...