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Post by bringbackcaro on Feb 25, 2017 18:24:41 GMT -5
From my seat, I thought the first 3 possessions of the OT were huge. We had 3 10 foot open shots in the key and missed all 3. Those, if made, would have changed the game completely....Tough one too loose...BU made shots, we didn't..HC shot 39% from the floor....On to Navy! This is fake news. Possession 1: Champion short-armed a turnaround jumper from the patriot league logo inside in the paint. Possession 2: Husek missed a turnaround jumper from right on the elbow. Possession 3: Husek missed a corner 3. One of three in the key. This "Make Shots" moniker, complete with official Adidas t-shirts, is so silly. Milan Brown was killed for saying the same thing.
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Post by DiMarz on Feb 25, 2017 18:38:42 GMT -5
From my seat, I thought the first 3 possessions of the OT were huge. We had 3 10 foot open shots in the key and missed all 3. Those, if made, would have changed the game completely....Tough one too loose...BU made shots, we didn't..HC shot 39% from the floor....On to Navy! This is fake news. Possession 1: Champion short-armed a turnaround jumper from the patriot league logo inside in the paint. Possession 2: Husek missed a turnaround jumper from right on the elbow. Possession 3: Husek missed a corner 3. One of three in the key. This "Make Shots" moniker, complete with official Adidas t-shirts, is so silly. Milan Brown was killed for saying the same thing. Must not have been the first three, but they were early...
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Post by hcnation on Feb 25, 2017 18:40:19 GMT -5
AT had ball with 8. 7 seconds left top of key in regulation - rather have PB with ball in that situation .
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Post by cfrivals on Feb 25, 2017 18:42:34 GMT -5
He missed Husek twice all alone under basket. Has zero court vision. Like Benzen at point
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Post by DiMarz on Feb 25, 2017 18:43:05 GMT -5
AT had ball with 8. 7 seconds left top of key in regulation - rather have PB with ball in that situation . I agree..PB is the only player who has shown he can create a shot
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Post by Sons of Vaval on Feb 25, 2017 18:47:54 GMT -5
Benzan better than Thompson across the board, no doubt about that. He's a much better decision-maker on offense.
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Post by ncaam on Feb 25, 2017 18:56:34 GMT -5
AT had ball with 8. 7 seconds left top of key in regulation - rather have PB with ball in that situation . I agree..PB is the only player who has shown he can create a shot Did u miss the loyola game? Here everyone knew he was going to take the shot including Joe jones
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Post by crosspride on Feb 25, 2017 19:19:22 GMT -5
Benzan better than Thompson across the board, no doubt about that. He's a much better decision-maker on offense. Bill Carmody must be a horrendous evaluator of talent then, because he clearly prefers AT at PG. Better at creating his own shot and finishing at the rim? Yes. But if you take Ant off the court today and try to have PB break that press, we lose by 10.
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Post by HC92 on Feb 25, 2017 19:23:38 GMT -5
Benzan better than Thompson across the board, no doubt about that. He's a much better decision-maker on offense. There are parts of the game where each is better than the other. Anthony did a lot of good things today and we will miss what he brings to the table next year. He played with more heart than anybody on the floor on either team and made some very big plays. He has his flaws but to act like he brings nothing to the table and next year we'll be much better off without him is just silly. Let's try to support a kid who is busting his *** out there on every single loose ball trying to help us win games instead of posting before, during and after every single game how bad he is.
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Post by timholycross on Feb 25, 2017 19:40:28 GMT -5
From my seat, I thought the first 3 possessions of the OT were huge. We had 3 10 foot open shots in the key and missed all 3. Those, if made, would have changed the game completely....Tough one too loose...BU made shots, we didn't..HC shot 39% from the floor....On to Navy! You hit on it...in fact the soft spot in the defense was the high post area....hc took several short jumpers during the course of the ballgame and, relative to the difficulty of the shot, shot terribly. Not all by the same person...MA, MH, RC all had their misses from there. Odd defensive ballgame by HC. Gave up 44 points in 36 minutes, pretty good. But gave up 27 points in 9 minutes (first 9 of the second half), pretty, pretty, pretty awful. Worst game Benzan's had in quite a while.
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Post by timholycross on Feb 25, 2017 19:42:30 GMT -5
Benzan better than Thompson across the board, no doubt about that. He's a much better decision-maker on offense. Not today, my friend. Other ballgames, yes, I agree with you, but I wasn't a big Pat fan this afternoon.
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Post by joe on Feb 25, 2017 19:53:16 GMT -5
Very proud of our seniors, their sportsmanship, and their success on the court. They seem like great guys as well. I'm hoping they go out with another PL championship. AT was all over the court today, and each of them tried to step up and lead the team to a W; just didn't happen today. The Hart center was standing room only; a real D1 atmosphere. Should be like this every game.
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Post by HC92 on Feb 25, 2017 19:56:25 GMT -5
AT tied for the team lead in rebounding today and had 5 of our 9 offensive boards. It wasn't because he got lucky.
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Post by rgs318 on Feb 25, 2017 20:12:32 GMT -5
Navy is tough at home. I have a bad feeling about the next game.
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Post by rgs318 on Feb 25, 2017 20:38:24 GMT -5
IN addition to playing solid D in each game, there is only one thing HC needs to do better to again win the PL Tournament...MAKE SHOTS! Or, at least do it with more regularity.
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Post by A Clock Tower Purple on Feb 25, 2017 20:59:04 GMT -5
AT did hit a trey in OT but his ill-advised or ad libbed drive the lane as regulation expired was a terrible decision by either the staff (if he was told to do so) or him (if he did it on his own). That was a killer.
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Post by cfrivals on Feb 25, 2017 21:23:18 GMT -5
As a senior, Jave Meade, Torrey Thomas, heck even Thomas Nelson makes that pass to Husek , AT still misses it and take a crazy drive.
We have got to get our expectations higher for this program. I never thought I would admire Harvard and Yale for their BB programs. Harvards freshman average 43.7 points per game. Ours ??
Today was another in many games this year and past 6 or 7 we should have won but for many reasons did not. We need to get better, recruit better, expect more from coaches, players and administrators period. Sick of excuses!
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Feb 25, 2017 21:58:27 GMT -5
Navy is tough at home. I have a bad feeling about the next game. In the past three seasons in PL play, in the regular season and PL tournaments combined, Navy is 14-15 at home and 15-14 on the road if I added the WL correctly
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Post by sarasota on Feb 26, 2017 0:04:13 GMT -5
We didn't deserve to win this today. On our last two possessions in regulation time we had the ball with time and both preceded by time outs. Score tied. Our offense could not produce a good shot each time. Atrocious offense scheme....again. If an offense is producing makeable shots, which is the objective of an offense scheme, you don't need good shooters. In a perfect PO execution every shot attempt will be a layup. Three point attempts are an admission of failure of the PO. I'm sick of CBC's mantra about our poor shooting. He's throwing his players under the bus no different than when CMB did it. The missed shots in OT wouldn't have happened if we did anything in our last two possessions in regulation time. We gave the game away because of a dysfunctional offense scheme, not poor shooting.
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Post by bison137 on Feb 26, 2017 0:15:47 GMT -5
In a perfect PO execution every shot attempt will be a layup. Three point attempts are an admission of failure of the PO. You're kidding, right? A perfect PO execution will create open shots but they will be dependent on the defense. They may be lay ups or they may be open threes or other shots. Princeton, who is on the verge of a perfect Ivy season, runs the PO to perfection. And 47% of their shot attempts are threes.
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Post by hc2489 on Feb 26, 2017 1:35:35 GMT -5
In a perfect PO execution every shot attempt will be a layup. Three point attempts are an admission of failure of the PO. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton_offense"The hallmark of the offense is the backdoor pass, where a player on the wing suddenly moves in towards the basket, receives a bounce pass from a guard on the perimeter, and (if done correctly) finds himself with no defenders between him and a layup. Alternatively, when the defensive team attempts to pack the paint to prevent backdoor cuts, the offense utilizes three point shots from the perimeter."
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Post by A Clock Tower Purple on Feb 26, 2017 3:29:33 GMT -5
We didn't deserve to win this today. On our last two possessions in regulation time we had the ball with time and both preceded by time outs. Score tied. Our offense could not produce a good shot each time. Atrocious offense scheme....again. If an offense is producing makeable shots, which is the objective of an offense scheme, you don't need good shooters. In a perfect PO execution every shot attempt will be a layup. Three point attempts are an admission of failure of the PO. I'm sick of CBC's mantra about our poor shooting. He's throwing his players under the bus no different than when CMB did it. The missed shots in OT wouldn't have happened if we did anything in our last two possessions in regulation time. We gave the game away because of a dysfunctional offense scheme, not poor shooting. You could not be more wrong. The object of the Princeton offense is movement to create open looks at the basket, and make the open looks.
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Post by sarasota on Feb 26, 2017 5:40:41 GMT -5
In a "perfect" PO the cuts and passes are made so perfectly that there's no time for a defense to pack it in and the percentage of made shots is extremely high because a layup is a higher percentage shot and the cutter has beat defenders to the rim. I'm talking PERFECT to make a point that the better the PO is run, the less dependence there is on shooters needing to be "good" inasmuch as they're forced to take lower percentage (3pt) shots. As I suggested earlier, our main problem is that we are not running the PO well at all, not that we're poor shooters--as witnessed by the final two possessions in regulation time.
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Post by sonsofspitler on Feb 26, 2017 6:22:12 GMT -5
Harvards freshman average 43.7 points per game. Ours ? Ours might need to next year.
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Post by sonsofspitler on Feb 26, 2017 6:27:57 GMT -5
Navy is tough at home. I have a bad feeling about the next game. If it's any consolation we all had a bad feeling 365 days ago, too. Three games in March time! Let's do this.
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