Buffalo716 Posted October 15, 2022 Author Share Posted October 15, 2022 2 hours ago, TBBills said: Horrible power play... they just passed the public back and forth slowly. Ummm wrong thread Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bray Wyatt Posted October 25, 2022 Share Posted October 25, 2022 Cuse looking sloppy so far Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Poojer Posted October 26, 2022 Share Posted October 26, 2022 27 minutes ago, Bray Wyatt said: Cuse looking sloppy so far I mean, boeheim went 12 deep in the first half. And IUP is ranked 2nd in D2. Not your typical exhibition game Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bray Wyatt Posted October 26, 2022 Share Posted October 26, 2022 2 minutes ago, The Poojer said: I mean, boeheim went 12 deep in the first half. And IUP is ranked 2nd in D2. Not your typical exhibition game It wasn’t about the scoreboard more that they had 10 turnovers in the first half and there was a stretch where they had 5 in 5 minutes 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bray Wyatt Posted October 26, 2022 Share Posted October 26, 2022 Mintz, Williams and Edwards look great so far, boeheim seems to be in Williams ear all game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miyagi-Do Karate Posted October 26, 2022 Share Posted October 26, 2022 Looks like they are pulling away, from looking at the live box score. Do I really need to get ESPN+ to Watch these Games?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Poojer Posted October 26, 2022 Share Posted October 26, 2022 Interesting strategy by boeheim, using the entire bench in the first half then a more traditional lineup in the second. 1 minute ago, Miyagi-Do Karate said: Looks like they are pulling away, from looking at the live box score. Do I really need to get ESPN+ to Watch these Games?! Hulu has it for me 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miyagi-Do Karate Posted October 29, 2022 Share Posted October 29, 2022 Pretty detailed article on Dior Johnson: https://www.post-gazette.com/sports/Pitt/2022/10/29/pitt-panthers-basketball-dior-johnson-arrest-suspension-jeff-capel/stories/202210280005 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo716 Posted October 31, 2022 Author Share Posted October 31, 2022 On 10/29/2022 at 8:29 AM, Miyagi-Do Karate said: Pretty detailed article on Dior Johnson: https://www.post-gazette.com/sports/Pitt/2022/10/29/pitt-panthers-basketball-dior-johnson-arrest-suspension-jeff-capel/stories/202210280005 Sad to see a talented young man slipping by the wayside literally had top 5 pick talent and might not even make it to a college game 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miyagi-Do Karate Posted October 31, 2022 Share Posted October 31, 2022 24 minutes ago, Buffalo716 said: Sad to see a talented young man slipping by the wayside literally had top 5 pick talent and might not even make it to a college game not as extreme and different situation (Academic), but reminded me a bit of Dayshawn Wright for us. Oh, what might have been!!?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCOrange Posted November 1, 2022 Share Posted November 1, 2022 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inkman Posted November 7, 2022 Share Posted November 7, 2022 Lehigh tonight. I think they finally have the athletes to hang with the blue bloods, minus the bigs perhaps, but they should at least keep those games close. Hopefully they clean some things up from preseason. Lots of sloppiness from the young guns. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inkman Posted November 8, 2022 Share Posted November 8, 2022 Holy smokes Judah Mintz is good. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inkman Posted November 8, 2022 Share Posted November 8, 2022 Feel for Benny, being in Jim’s doghouse seems like a miserable existence. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo716 Posted November 8, 2022 Author Share Posted November 8, 2022 Playing heavy man to man also Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miyagi-Do Karate Posted November 8, 2022 Share Posted November 8, 2022 Really nice opener. Some good athletes on this team. I actually think man helps them out more on the boards more than anything. really like Maliq Brown in particular— thought he played very well. Wonder if JB goes 10 deep all season. Gone are the days of 6 deep— lose all those guys you want to develop to the portal now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCOrange Posted November 8, 2022 Share Posted November 8, 2022 (edited) Great start to the year for our main three guards. They all looked good tonight. I was very happy to see Mintz look more like the player he was in high school after his struggles in the two exhibition games. Tonight was pretty much the best case scenario of how I hoped he would look; drawing fouls, keeping the defense off balance, and knocking down mid-range shots. Jesse was awesome as well; didn't really expect us to be a team that looks for alley oops a lot but that was a really nice surprise to see. The forwards unsurprisingly looked to be our main weakness. Benny's athleticism popped a little more than last year's play but he still looks like a kid that just began playing basketball. Bell didn't really do anything but at least he knocked down one of his 3's and had the nice steal and finish. Brown did his thing, but his relatively poor leaping ability stood out to me and I remain a bit skeptical of how his game will translate against real competition. Taylor looked the part but shot like crap. Based on how our forwards looked in high school, I think we had to sort of pin our hopes of being a tournament team on the idea that things would click for Benny this season, and unfortunately, that doesn't appear to have happened. Overall though, obviously a very young team and they all showed at least flashes of promising stuff. I think this team was more fun to watch than last year's team. We'll see if that remains the case as competition gets stiffer. Edited November 8, 2022 by DCOrange 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bray Wyatt Posted November 8, 2022 Share Posted November 8, 2022 Mintz being a scorer at the pg spot is something this team has needed for a long time it seems. It helps having a big like Edwards as well. Mintz allows us to move JG3 to sg where he is better suited. Our forwards were not the best but one thing I liked seeing from them was their willingness to rebound (another thing we have not been the best at, could that be due to the zone though?). If we mix up man vs zone defense with how we work the 2-3, I feel like we can keep the opponents off balance more which will only help. Will have to see how we look against the ACC competition but we should be much better off than last year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miyagi-Do Karate Posted November 8, 2022 Share Posted November 8, 2022 2 hours ago, Bray Wyatt said: Mintz being a scorer at the pg spot is something this team has needed for a long time it seems. It helps having a big like Edwards as well. Mintz allows us to move JG3 to sg where he is better suited. Our forwards were not the best but one thing I liked seeing from them was their willingness to rebound (another thing we have not been the best at, could that be due to the zone though?). If we mix up man vs zone defense with how we work the 2-3, I feel like we can keep the opponents off balance more which will only help. Will have to see how we look against the ACC competition but we should be much better off than last year I personally love the zone. But even from my own experiences playing a lot of bball myself, it is so much easier to rebound playing man defense than zone. In recent years, we haven’t had the athletes to play the zone and then the rebounding has suffered too. So I am on board with mixing it up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miyagi-Do Karate Posted November 16, 2022 Share Posted November 16, 2022 Welp, the annual blow-out loss to Colgate. I have no idea what Syracuse does on offense. Just a bunch of guys running iso. Looks like a YMCA game. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bray Wyatt Posted November 16, 2022 Share Posted November 16, 2022 13 hours ago, Miyagi-Do Karate said: Welp, the annual blow-out loss to Colgate. I have no idea what Syracuse does on offense. Just a bunch of guys running iso. Looks like a YMCA game. I get its hard to beat a team who shoots that well and that many 3s, but the offense looked atrocious. They need to get Edwards involved early and it will open up everything else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Hammersticks Posted November 16, 2022 Share Posted November 16, 2022 2 hours ago, Bray Wyatt said: I get its hard to beat a team who shoots that well and that many 3s, but the offense looked atrocious. They need to get Edwards involved early and it will open up everything else. There is just no movement. They look like a middle school offense. Horrible 🤢 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miyagi-Do Karate Posted November 16, 2022 Share Posted November 16, 2022 2 hours ago, Bray Wyatt said: I get its hard to beat a team who shoots that well and that many 3s, but the offense looked atrocious. They need to get Edwards involved early and it will open up everything else. 2 minutes ago, Johnny Hammersticks said: There is just no movement. They look like a middle school offense. Horrible 🤢 we used to do this a little with Onuwaku— sort of run the offense inside out. Also, at least one problem is these guys can’t or won’t pass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bray Wyatt Posted November 16, 2022 Share Posted November 16, 2022 1 minute ago, Miyagi-Do Karate said: we used to do this a little with Onuwaku— sort of run the offense inside out. Also, at least one problem is these guys can’t or won’t pass. I am hoping that is more because they are freshman and used to being the go to guy in high school. Now they have to learn to play more as a team, including defense 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCOrange Posted November 16, 2022 Share Posted November 16, 2022 We've had issues getting Edwards involved in the past but last night wasn't it. He just flat out sucked at everything. We tried to get him the ball in the post; he was no match for Colgate's physicality and it resulted in him throwing up ugly shots, trying to dunk from too far away, etc. He got exploited defensively all game too. It was a rare game where we probably would have been better off if he had gotten into foul trouble. A lot of ugly stuff last night. Seems like communication defensively is a gigantic problem. In man-to-man, we had no idea how to handle a simple ball screen. Guys were switching when they shouldn't, fighting through when they shouldn't, hedging when they shouldn't, and double-teaming when they shouldn't. The 1-3-1 zone is just a non-starter; it's asking for Girard and Edwards to cover the most space on the floor and that's the worst position we can possibly put the two of them in. The communication issues were there constantly in the 2-3 as well and the 3 guard lineup so many wanted to see appears unworkable in the 2-3. The team had no awareness of who Colgate's shooters were and couldn't execute the simplest of rotations on a consistent basis; often leaving shooters open while the defense was defending empty space. The offense is what it is. If Edwards plays like he did last night and Girard's shot is off, this team will lose that game 100 times out of 100. I think the offense mostly did a good job of getting Girard open looks on the move and did a nice job getting the ball to Jesse until it became apparent that we shouldn't. We got a sneak peak of what happens to Mintz when the shot isn't falling and he isn't drawing fouls in the first half but he rebounded beautifully in the 2nd half and overall had a nice game. Benny was as promising as ever; I definitely don't want to see him taking jumpers with regularity, but his free throws looked good, and he was mostly active and confident. I would really like to see him take advantage of teams playing off of him more. Colgate rightfully helped off of him constantly and mostly abandoned him on the 3 point line; Boeheim and Benny need to recognize this as an opportunity to set screens or dribble-handoffs to get easy looks for Girard and Mintz. It's a super simple tweak that just isn't happening for whatever reason; I'd like to think Boeheim recognizes it but maybe not. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miyagi-Do Karate Posted November 20, 2022 Share Posted November 20, 2022 While Northeastern looks pretty bad, glad Syracuse bounced back, esp on the offensive end. Mintz getting to the rim is exciting. that said, Bennie Williams remains totally bewildering to me. I couldn’t even explain his offensive game if I tried. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo716 Posted November 22, 2022 Author Share Posted November 22, 2022 Wow Judah is so smooth 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo716 Posted November 22, 2022 Author Share Posted November 22, 2022 JG3 is on 🔥 🔥🔥 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bray Wyatt Posted November 22, 2022 Share Posted November 22, 2022 That was a great game by jg3, prob his best at Cuse. He kept the team in it in the first half. Started to get Edwards involved more at the end and we finally pulled away. Defense finished out the half and OT strong 2 hours ago, Buffalo716 said: Wow Judah is so smooth Judah is going to be really good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo716 Posted November 22, 2022 Author Share Posted November 22, 2022 18 minutes ago, Bray Wyatt said: That was a great game by jg3, prob his best at Cuse. He kept the team in it in the first half. Started to get Edwards involved more at the end and we finally pulled away. Defense finished out the half and OT strong Judah is going to be really good Judah will only be here 2 years tops 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miyagi-Do Karate Posted November 22, 2022 Share Posted November 22, 2022 Great win. Really loved Bell looking for his shot. As much as JG Had a great game, ball needs to be in Judah’s hands down the stretch. I’d rather see him go to the rim than JG taking off balance contested 3’s. Had some bad shots down the stretch that almost burned us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo716 Posted November 22, 2022 Author Share Posted November 22, 2022 Get that dub tonight!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Hammersticks Posted November 22, 2022 Share Posted November 22, 2022 1 hour ago, Buffalo716 said: Get that dub tonight!! LGO 🍊 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo716 Posted November 23, 2022 Author Share Posted November 23, 2022 Good first half Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bray Wyatt Posted November 23, 2022 Share Posted November 23, 2022 Girard followed up one of his best games with one of his worst Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCOrange Posted November 23, 2022 Share Posted November 23, 2022 That was a brutal game from Joe. Might not have made a difference but would have liked to see some of the subs play more. Our starters were dead by the end of the game. Judah once again looked very impressive but he kinda fell apart by the end too. Really struggled handling the ball against the pressure St. John’s was giving him. I watched a bunch of Bell’s high school games and feel confident saying this is the best two game stretch he’s had. Not really sure what to make of it but if he continues to shoot like he has the last two games, that’ll be big for this team. Jesse continues to be a relative disappointment, though he did make a few tough shots to keep our hopes alive. Pretty nice showing from Benny. He’s had a couple games now that have shown why we continue to play him so much more than the alternatives; he’s capable of doing things nobody else on this team can. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miyagi-Do Karate Posted November 23, 2022 Share Posted November 23, 2022 43 minutes ago, DCOrange said: That was a brutal game from Joe. Might not have made a difference but would have liked to see some of the subs play more. Our starters were dead by the end of the game. Judah once again looked very impressive but he kinda fell apart by the end too. Really struggled handling the ball against the pressure St. John’s was giving him. I watched a bunch of Bell’s high school games and feel confident saying this is the best two game stretch he’s had. Not really sure what to make of it but if he continues to shoot like he has the last two games, that’ll be big for this team. Jesse continues to be a relative disappointment, though he did make a few tough shots to keep our hopes alive. Pretty nice showing from Benny. He’s had a couple games now that have shown why we continue to play him so much more than the alternatives; he’s capable of doing things nobody else on this team can. Re the end of the game and OT, these guys need to move on offense. They let Judah get pressured to death, and no one is cutting or setting screens off the ball. They were all standing around and watching him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bray Wyatt Posted November 23, 2022 Share Posted November 23, 2022 39 minutes ago, Miyagi-Do Karate said: Re the end of the game and OT, these guys need to move on offense. They let Judah get pressured to death, and no one is cutting or setting screens off the ball. They were all standing around and watching him. I think the constant pressure, especially this early in the season, wore us down, even more so with an overtime game the night before. We got tired and stopped moving our feet imo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo716 Posted November 26, 2022 Author Share Posted November 26, 2022 SU vs Bryant 4pm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Hammersticks Posted November 27, 2022 Share Posted November 27, 2022 19 hours ago, Buffalo716 said: SU vs Bryant 4pm Ugghh 🤦🏾♂️ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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