In all our other victories I never once said the other team played bad or anything like that last night you just cant ignore the fact Creighton couldn't shoot the ball worth a s..t
How can you give credit to a team for giving another team wide open looks and missing. In the first game it was all Dougie nobody shut anyone else down. The supporting cast plays fine and normally hits those types of shots I have watched Creighton play many times this year. Great win by St John's but Creighton had all the chances in the world to run away with that game if they could hit a few wide open looks.
Again, they only scored 63 points the first game as well. Why? There is a reason why McD needed to score 39 to win the first game and that's because we shut the other players down. If we could hit a few wide open looks it would have been a blowout as well, so that doesn't mean anything. What you are not factoring in, which the coach mentioned, is our length. When we close out aggressively it makes the Creighton players have to get there shots off much quicker than they are accustomed to which makes them miss. Its all a part of defense, and the effort put forth by the players the fans should be proud of it.
SJU made them miss your so called "wide open shots", plus playing on the road, in MSG, none of that is "usual" for them. They don't "usually" go up against a team with our length and athleticism. We played them twice and held them to an average of 64 points a game, that's 16 points below their average. It doesn't matter how they played against other teams, what matters is how they play against us and after two games its fair to say that we play them very well on defense.