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GAME 10 Seton Hall: The Needle and the Very Fine Line

In the 2nd half 34.5% of possessions ended in a turnover. That's a fun nugget.
That’s the issue!! Not the shooting!!

Mostly unforced mental errors as opposed to forced by Seton Hall!

That’s OSU game coming back to haunt us.

10/11 on Free Throw Line. Basically 25% of our Offense. How does SHU get 7 more foul shots on the road at the RAC in a rock fight?

Throw in a missed foot on line in end game?

Food for thought !!!!
 
That’s the issue!! Not the shooting!!

Mostly unforced mental errors as opposed to forced by Seton Hall!

That’s OSU game coming back to haunt us.

10/11 on Free Throw Line. Basically 25% of our Offense. How does SHU get 7 more foul shots on the road at the RAC?

Throw in a missed foot on line in end game?

Food for thought !!!!
They are partially connected. We get a turnover from a shot clock violation becuse with 3 seconds left Cam decided to pass up a mildly contested shot so that someone else had the hot potato when the clock expired
 
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Somebody needs to tell Cam that we're better off with him shooting 36% on 200 attempts than we are with him shooting 40% on 100 attempts.
A shot attempt isn’t a turnover. In the 64% he missed there is a 30+ % chance we get an offensive rebound.

He takes a shot
36% we get 3 points
19% chance we get another chance (OREB)
45% chance possession ends
 
Or Cam getting the ball with almost no time on the clock and having to throw up a wild three from the corner?
 
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The other basketball 101 "No-No", is when your guard drives or tries to make a play at the basket or turns it over near the baseline, is your defense has no floor balance.

Floor balance means your guards "should" be shooting perimeter 3s from the arc and if they miss, they're immediately in place to stop and leak outs for a layup. SHU got 2 cheap layups in transition after turnovers and because there's no balance to get back on defense......yes, the players are supposed to rotate back into position, but Mulcahy is improvising where no one has a clue on what he's going to do with the ball.

SHU wasn't scoring unless they got on the offensive glass or scored after a turnover.
True, the Hall needed to grind to get baskets, but they also hit some corner threes on wide open looks. Unlike RU last night, they were better at not letting the ball sit and moved it quickly around the floor until they got an open shooter.
 
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December 1 @ Kansas
December 7 vs Lincoln(Pa)
a December 11 @ Rutgers

November 30th @ Miami
December 3rd vs Indiana
December 8th @ Ohio St
December 11th vs Seton Hall

Who had 4 real games back2back to prepare for and only 2 days for Seton Hall coming off a tough mentally draining "loss" and which team basically was preparing for Rutgers the last 9 days? Rutgers played like a mentally exhausted team. Pike made the mistake of not playing Reiber more, he looked like he had something to give last night and forgot about him. The team played good defense all night but man they looked uncomfortable and gun shy in taking any shot all night, only 43 FG attempts in 40 minutes. They have almost a week for Wake they will be fine the next game, last night was a cumulative effect of the last 12 days total, nothing more.
I will agree that our team looked mentally exhausted. However, a big reason for the 43 shot attempts is the inexcusable 19 turnovers.
This group has not protected the ball on offense so far this year. That is the main focus for me moving forward.
 
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Not sure if Geo wanted to take the last shot or was forced to…it was the only end-game play we had. Dribble dribble dribble, low percentage step-back three at the buzzer. As remedial as that play is, we have no one this year who can even attempt it.
Spencer could but right now unlikely to make the shot.I am very disappointed because Spencer was recruited to be a double digit scorer.
 
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Spencer could but right now unlikely to make the shot.I am very disappointed because Spencer was recruited to be a double digit scorer.
The problem is that Spencer can’t get the shot off on his own at this level. He needs to come off a screen and be set up and we don’t do that for whatever reason.
 
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The problem is that Spencer can’t get the shot off on his own at this level. He needs to come off a screen and be set up and we don’t do that for whatever reason.
I think (don't know) that we try to do this but we don't handle ball pressure well enough to run anything well or get ball reversals that you need to make this happen.
We're getting the best catch-and-shoot guy in the class of 2023 next season and he's 6'7" so hopefully we improve on this a lot.
 
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I think (don't know) that we try to do this but we don't handle ball pressure well enough to run anything well or get ball reversals that you need to make this happen.
We're getting the best catch-and-shoot guy in the class of 2023 next season and he's 6'7" so hopefully we improve on this a lot.
500%
 
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Offensive strategy was so obvious even Seton Hall could figure it out. lol

Paul was to take it up-court and get it to Cliff, who would then dominate the paint and make a basket, preferably by dunk.

So Paul would control the ball for 23 or 24 seconds. If he found an opening, he would execute the plan. Since the Hall was obviously privy to the strategy, they were more than prepared. Occasionally Paul would try to get it into the post anyway resulting in a turnover.

Usually he would realize with about 6 or 7 seconds left on the shot clock that he was not going to be able to feed the post. Often he was also in terrible position to do anything creative.

So he would pass it to whomever he could find open, leaving that unfortunate player with just a few seconds to try to do something creative with the ball. That instant creativity most of the time led to yet another turnover.

Rushing everything with just a few seconds left on the shot clock is unlikely to lead to a decent shot, so we were treated to a grand total of 17 points during the entire second half.

Kudos to the SH coach for a great defensive effort, but I have no idea why RU persisted for the entire half in trying the same disastrous game plan.
 
December 1 @ Kansas
December 7 vs Lincoln(Pa)
a December 11 @ Rutgers

November 30th @ Miami
December 3rd vs Indiana
December 8th @ Ohio St
December 11th vs Seton Hall

Who had 4 real games back2back to prepare for and only 2 days for Seton Hall coming off a tough mentally draining "loss" and which team basically was preparing for Rutgers the last 9 days? Rutgers played like a mentally exhausted team. Pike made the mistake of not playing Reiber more, he looked like he had something to give last night and forgot about him. The team played good defense all night but man they looked uncomfortable and gun shy in taking any shot all night, only 43 FG attempts in 40 minutes. They have almost a week for Wake they will be fine the next game, last night was a cumulative effect of the last 12 days total, nothing more.
"Blind" optimism.
 
Caleb and Paul turnover machines. For some reasons these guys have been given passes on criticism but these two and Cliff are the reasons we lost.

Its not Cam, Hyatt or lack of bench its because our three mainstays came up empty

Paul had 7 assists to go with his 3 TOs, so it is not fair to call him a TO machine v SHU (that is a good A/TO ration for your PG. Caleb, on the other hand had 5 TOs and no assists so the label fits.
 
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