Providence Matchups

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Re: Providence Matchups
« Reply #20 on: January 13, 2015, 09:43:59 AM »
Is Wednesday night suddenly a must win? I'd say so. Needless to say, the kinks have to be worked out, and fast.


Thoughts?

Don't think at must win stage yet. St. John's has four losses. Two are to top-5 teams. The third is to a ranked team on their home court. The fourth is the worst and it is to a top-30ish butler team, which isn't a bad loss though one they should have won. Probably need ~10 wins in conference, so this game @ providence isn't a must win.

It's a must win. 
If we lose Weds, there would be 14 conference games left and we would need to go 10-4 to get to your magic number of 10 conference wins. (Which I think is an accurate barometer).  That's asking too much.  We need to start crawling out of this hole, dig it any deeper and the season is officially over.
And I don't think that's pessimistic, truthfully, at 0-4 we're just not making the tournament.

Agree.  It is as close to a must win as there is.  Need some quality wins and this is at least a semi.  9-7 would be marginal, would have to win a game or two in the BE tournament to have a shot.

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Re: Providence Matchups
« Reply #21 on: January 13, 2015, 10:41:20 AM »
Kris Dunn 6'3 205 averaging 13/5/7
Sheed        6'4 185 averaging  13/4/3

Both are ultra talented sophomores, with similar frames, speed, and athleticism.

Jamal isn't the appropriate matchup, let Sheed get his 25-30 uninterrupted minutes and lets get out and get into transition, create turnovers, play great D and do what we do best tomorrow night.

The potential of Myles shooting 3-5 from three, spreading the floor and leveling out our size on the perimeter is needed. CJ and Joey protecting Sir and Chris' respective foul situations is also extremely valuable. Finding a common medium for both of these situations should be one of the staff's many goals for tomorrow night and moving forward.

I'm aiming at 3-1 through Duke, putting us back at 14-5 on the outside looking in to the top25.
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Re: Providence Matchups
« Reply #22 on: January 13, 2015, 10:53:27 AM »
Next 8 conference games: Providence twice, Creighton twice, Depaul twice, Marquette, @ Butler.  Need to win 6 of those because the remaining stretch (Xavier twice, Georgetown twice, @Nova, SH, @ Marquette) will be hard for us to generate more than 3 wins.  Lots of season left but the time to turn it on is right now.

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Re: Providence Matchups
« Reply #23 on: January 13, 2015, 11:08:21 AM »
Must win. Down 0-3 with a week to prepare. Coaches better step up. Won't be sticking up for anyone if we lose.

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Re: Providence Matchups
« Reply #24 on: January 13, 2015, 11:17:23 AM »
Won't be sticking up for anyone if we lose.

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Re: Providence Matchups
« Reply #25 on: January 13, 2015, 10:48:04 PM »
2.5 point underdogs

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Re: Providence Matchups
« Reply #26 on: January 14, 2015, 01:00:57 PM »
supposedly jumpted to 4 points.

Re: Providence Matchups
« Reply #27 on: January 14, 2015, 01:18:14 PM »
Jordan
supposedly jumpted to 4 points.

Jordan must be in town

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Re: Providence Matchups
« Reply #28 on: January 14, 2015, 01:48:11 PM »
Kris Dunn 6'3 205 averaging 13/5/7
Sheed        6'4 185 averaging  13/4/3

Both are ultra talented sophomores, with similar frames, speed, and athleticism.

Jamal isn't the appropriate matchup, let Sheed get his 25-30 uninterrupted minutes and lets get out and get into transition, create turnovers, play great D and do what we do best tomorrow night.

The potential of Myles shooting 3-5 from three, spreading the floor and leveling out our size on the perimeter is needed. CJ and Joey protecting Sir and Chris' respective foul situations is also extremely valuable. Finding a common medium for both of these situations should be one of the staff's many goals for tomorrow night and moving forward.

I'm aiming at 3-1 through Duke, putting us back at 14-5 on the outside looking in to the top25.

The staff has found minutes for Stewart and Jones. They aren't using them well. Stewart is looking to shoot the 3 ball, but that's all he's doing. Would it kill him to get the under the hoop for a rebound, or to put it on the floor and get into the lane? He looked good early, but he looked good shooting the 3. That's it.

Jones is out to lunch. He needs to start playing like it matters to him. All we hear about is what an imposing body he has once he checks in. There is nothing imposing about him during the game. He ducks out of the way when the opposing team is boxing out for a rebound. WTF?

I'd give Alibegovic a chance. He might be lost on defense, but hes trying, and he's a freshman so that's to be expected, to a degree. Delarosa does rebound, and we do need him to spell Chris. IDK what's up w Balamou, but he's been either redshirted, hurt or benched for two years. He can hustle on defense and grab a board. He put the ball on the floor against LBS and scored in a half court set. It's the only time I've ever seen him do it.

Of our 5 subs, after RJ, they are so astonishingly limited, it's clear why a Lavin can't get more out of them. Can't get what isn't there. These guys aren't able to play at this level. Maybe Stewart and Alibegovic will eventually be able to, but Balamou, Jones and Delarosa have been D1 ballers for years now. If it was there, we'd have seen a sign of it.

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Re: Providence Matchups
« Reply #29 on: January 14, 2015, 03:15:44 PM »
Because he matches up against Kris Dunn to a tee and is the 2nd most talented player on the team.
Even if he was the most talented, he wouldn't be the #2 man. CO is easily #2, and Dom#3. If you wan't to figure in what hes done for the team this year, he's #6. Just my opinion. Now, If he plays great and wins us games the rest of the way, he's #1A. What have we seen so far? 

Re: Providence Matchups
« Reply #30 on: January 14, 2015, 05:41:03 PM »
Villanova abused us on the boards and Providence has a significantly taller starting 5 (and bench).  Chris needs to be smart.  Early fouls and they are going to blow us out !

Hope to be wrong.

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Re: Providence Matchups
« Reply #31 on: January 14, 2015, 05:56:32 PM »
Agreed...Harrison is the MVP but the rest of the year hangs on CO and Dom staying out of foul trouble.  Without them the D suffers, no overplaying, quickness cant be properly utilized.  Providence is big and this game will be a great indicator....if CO, and to a lesser extent Dom, stay out of foul trouble we should win.  If not our shXt is weak.

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Re: Providence Matchups
« Reply #32 on: January 14, 2015, 06:18:51 PM »
Agreed...Harrison is the MVP but the rest of the year hangs on CO and Dom staying out of foul trouble.  Without them the D suffers, no overplaying, quickness cant be properly utilized.  Providence is big and this game will be a great indicator....if CO, and to a lesser extent Dom, stay out of foul trouble we should win.  If not our shXt is weak.
Going to have to play JDR to keep CO out of foul trouble.

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Re: Providence Matchups
« Reply #33 on: January 14, 2015, 06:40:33 PM »
@HowieKussoy: Jamal Branch is not in warm-ups, w/ trainer. Status is questionable. Suffered a bad cut to finger, having trouble gripping the ball

Re: Providence Matchups
« Reply #34 on: January 14, 2015, 06:42:14 PM »
Agreed...Harrison is the MVP but the rest of the year hangs on CO and Dom staying out of foul trouble.  Without them the D suffers, no overplaying, quickness cant be properly utilized.  Providence is big and this game will be a great indicator....if CO, and to a lesser extent Dom, stay out of foul trouble we should win.  If not our shXt is weak.

I'd like to see JDR play 6-8 minutes in the first half no matter the foul situation.  Save energy, fouls, and best lineup for the 2nd half. 

Re: Providence Matchups
« Reply #35 on: January 14, 2015, 06:42:34 PM »
@HowieKussoy: Jamal Branch is not in warm-ups, w/ trainer. Status is questionable. Suffered a bad cut to finger, having trouble gripping the ball

Oh boy!

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Re: Providence Matchups
« Reply #36 on: January 14, 2015, 06:44:45 PM »
CURSED/DOOMED

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Re: Providence Matchups
« Reply #37 on: January 14, 2015, 06:47:13 PM »
Jordan starting, had good week of practice. :)

Re: Providence Matchups
« Reply #38 on: January 14, 2015, 06:47:56 PM »
I'd like to see JDR play 6-8 minutes in the first half no matter the foul situation.  Save energy, fouls, and best lineup for the 2nd half.

We need to see more of the bench as the season goes on, especially the front court guys...Joey and Christian, Those guys really need to step up in productivity.

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Re: Providence Matchups
« Reply #39 on: January 14, 2015, 06:50:39 PM »
@HowieKussoy: Jamal Branch appears to be good to go, out on the floor now.