The Red Storm also will face Rutgers in a closed-door scrimmage on Oct. 21, according to a source, and will play Pace in an exhibition on Oct. 29 in Queens.
St.Johns Closed door Scrimmage per NY Post
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Stats tend to leak. The challenge is that these scrimmages are usually not a 40 minute game. There is usually time set aside for each team to work on situational stuff.
The main thing is for the players to compete against another D1 program and for nobody to get injured.
We have too much talent for an exhibition against a D-2 team IMO, especially after St. Johns. What can we get out of it, unless it's for a good cause?
I think you misread it. Says St Johns will be playing Pace in an exhibition in Queens
Yep, that Pitino guy is in way over his head. He should take some advice from RU Chow on practice methodology if he ever wants to win in college basketball
Pitino and closed doors . Does that mean there will be strippers ?
There may be a little value in playing lesser competition. Lesser competition usually means smaller lineups which presents different challenges. In addition, gaming the system is beating teams by 30-40+.
Scrimmaging Pace ? What are they Division 3? What is the point of scrimmaging Pace when there are a gizzilion division 1 schools in the area to scrimmage?
Prep for those quad 4 games we need to win ?
One of the toughest parts of game day coaching is squeezing juice.
Basketball is a game of runs. Your team goes on a 14 to 2 run to start the second half. Good coaches know how to keep the pressure up, how to keep working on what is working, how to extend a 14 to 2 run into a 20 to 4 run, because when a good team solves your scheme they will go on a a 14 to 2 run. You need to practice on patsies so you become relentless.
There was a guy named Jerry Tarkanian and he knew/taught this lesson as well as anyone and everyone hated him for it. There was another guy, name of Big John Thompson, who would schedule Little Sister of the Poor and Refrigerator Repair Tech at the start of every season and would coach his ass off in those games to set his guys to fly right for the rest of the schedule.
Basketball is a game of runs. Your team goes on a 14 to 2 run to start the second half. Good coaches know how to keep the pressure up, how to keep working on what is working, how to extend a 14 to 2 run into a 20 to 4 run, because when a good team solves your scheme they will go on a a 14 to 2 run. You need to practice on patsies so you become relentless.
There was a guy named Jerry Tarkanian and he knew/taught this lesson as well as anyone and everyone hated him for it. There was another guy, name of Big John Thompson, who would schedule Little Sister of the Poor and Refrigerator Repair Tech at the start of every season and would coach his ass off in those games to set his guys to fly right for the rest of the schedule.
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St. John's vs. Pace is an exhibition game, not a scrimmage.
Actually it would be cool if St. John's and Rutgers turned the closed scrimmage into into a public exhibition to raise money for Maui.
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