4 plays away from 20-6, 5 Q1 wins and 5 seed?

[Sean Miller Fan]

Down 80-78 to Louisville with 39 seconds, Hadley misses a shot, we don't get the rebound. Had we gotten the rebound, maybe we score and win.

Tied at 66 vs Clemson. Dillon Hunter misses a shot with 51 seconds, couldn't get the rebound. Zachary makes a shot with 33 seconds. We tie and send to OT. Had we stopped them, maybe we win.

@ Wake, Lowe misses a 3 to tie with 1:02 left. If he hits it, maybe we end up winning

@ UNC - the Leggett miss at the buzzer

I believe we've only won 1 close game this year....at OSU. To go 0-4 in those 1 possession games is a hard thing to do.

 

[NC Panther]

Down 80-78 to Louisville with 39 seconds, Hadley misses a shot, we don't get the rebound. Had we gotten the rebound, maybe we score and win.

Tied at 66 vs Clemson. Dillon Hunter misses a shot with 51 seconds, couldn't get the rebound. Zachary makes a shot with 33 seconds. We tie and send to OT. Had we stopped them, maybe we win.

@ Wake, Lowe misses a 3 to tie with 1:02 left. If he hits it, maybe we end up winning

@ UNC - the Leggett miss at the buzzer

I believe we've only won 1 close game this year....at OSU. To go 0-4 in those 1 possession games is a hard thing to do.

Right - I mean, this team and Lowe are a *lot* better than many posters are giving credit.

Did we lay a rotten egg against UVA (in both FB and BB btw) - yeah but we'd currently be in the NCAAT now if we just won 2 of those 4 one possesion games.

I "think' our guys lost a lot of confidence losing those close games and that's why Saturday's game is of the upmost importance for a lot of reasons.

I think we win - get on a roll - *maybe* lose at Louisville but win the remaining regular season games and do what we need to do in the ACCT to get into the Big Dance.

 

[PittPanther44]

We’ve won several other “close” games, just not ones where the result could have been flipped on one play.

It been a weird year. I think about those game that could have dramatically improved our resume. On the other hand, we probably would have been overseeded at 5 due to our propensity to get waxed in some games.

 

[bobfree]

Ya. It's a bad time to be a Capel defender. But judging by the crowd the other night and this board people have given up on him and this team.

 

[TheWerewolfFromTwilight]

Devil's Advocate: I think Ohio State and Clemson both got complacent to have let us back into those games. Virginia Tech could have easily been a loss, as well, and had we played them and WVU a few weeks later both probably would have been (you can say the opposite about UVA, but that's still 2 to 1).

As for what did happen in these one-possession games we're 1-4 in, Louisville is the one that I thought stung the most. I very much believe we should have won that game. But the fact that we couldn't go into Wake or UNC and just ball out when we absolutely needed to tells me this team has a very defined ceiling. We don't win Q1 games.

 

[Rupart33]

Devil's Advocate: I think Ohio State and Clemson both got complacent to have let us back into those games. Virginia Tech could have easily been a loss, as well, and had we played them and WVU a few weeks later both probably would have been (you can say the opposite about UVA, but that's still 2 to 1).

As for what did happen in these one-possession games we're 1-4 in, Louisville is the one that I thought stung the most. I very much believe we should have won that game. But the fact that we couldn't go into Wake or UNC and just ball out when we absolutely needed to tells me this team has a very defined ceiling. We don't win Q1 games.

It is pretty simple for me, good teams find a way to win close games, bad teams find a way to lose. Our offensive sets this year at the end of games are ridiculously bad and we don't give ourselves much chance to win. Not to mention lack of focus, rebounding, defense. But the two years prior, we had a formula for winning those close games.

 

[Pitt666]

Well hopefully we get regression to mean and win a close one next week at Lville. Win the next five and they end 6-6 road, and get another Q1A and 2 Q2 wins. Puts them in last four/first four out discussion. This team is capable of doing that. Will they, probably not.

 

[Pittisit4me]

Down 80-78 to Louisville with 39 seconds, Hadley misses a shot, we don't get the rebound. Had we gotten the rebound, maybe we score and win.

Tied at 66 vs Clemson. Dillon Hunter misses a shot with 51 seconds, couldn't get the rebound. Zachary makes a shot with 33 seconds. We tie and send to OT. Had we stopped them, maybe we win.

@ Wake, Lowe misses a 3 to tie with 1:02 left. If he hits it, maybe we end up winning

@ UNC - the Leggett miss at the buzzer

I believe we've only won 1 close game this year....at OSU. To go 0-4 in those 1 possession games is a hard thing to do.

While those games did come down to one play, the reason we don't win those games is a cumulative affect of poor rebounding and particularly poor 3pt defense. These weaknesses are hard to overcome and are the reason we can't win a Quad 1 battle.

 

[ChiefJusticeMarshall]

Down 80-78 to Louisville with 39 seconds, Hadley misses a shot, we don't get the rebound. Had we gotten the rebound, maybe we score and win.

Tied at 66 vs Clemson. Dillon Hunter misses a shot with 51 seconds, couldn't get the rebound. Zachary makes a shot with 33 seconds. We tie and send to OT. Had we stopped them, maybe we win.

@ Wake, Lowe misses a 3 to tie with 1:02 left. If he hits it, maybe we end up winning

@ UNC - the Leggett miss at the buzzer

I believe we've only won 1 close game this year....at OSU. To go 0-4 in those 1 possession games is a hard thing to do.

Don't forget the Wisky game where Dunn got hurt and they got all of these ridiculous foul calls on that one dude.

 

[pittchagg]

I get the point here about there being a number of close games that haven’t gone our way. But this team’s analytic profile has tanked since New Year’s or so, and that isn’t really going to be drastically altered whether we won those one possession games or lost them.

We were #27 in Torvik prior to the Cal game right around New Year’s. #41 headed into the Clemson game. We are now #73. It’s been a legitimate and steep drop off whether those late game shots went down or not.

 

[Fsgolfdr]

Right - I mean, this team and Lowe are a *lot* better than many posters are giving credit.

Did we lay a rotten egg against UVA (in both FB and BB btw) - yeah but we'd currently be in the NCAAT now if we just won 2 of those 4 one possesion games.

I "think' our guys lost a lot of confidence losing those close games and that's why Saturday's game is of the upmost importance for a lot of reasons.

I think we win - get on a roll - *maybe* lose at Louisville but win the remaining regular season games and do what we need to do in the ACCT to get into the Big Dance.

This team is a true bubble team in terms of being a good team and in making the tournament. Pull out a few of those close winnable games and you have a tournament team . The outcry of firing the coach and the belittlement of the players is disgraceful. Pitt isn’t Duke , never was and will never be and those expecting those kind of results are unrealistic.

 

[Joe the Panther Fan]

these one-possession games we're 1-4 in

Don't tell SMF, but we are actually 1-3 in one possession games. However if for some odd reason you want to include a four point game as a one possession game so that you can include the Louisville loss, then you also have to include the four point win at Syracuse, so we wouldn't be 1-4, we'd be 2-4. Unless for some odd reason you want to included five point games, in which case we are 3-4.

 

[Tvax1]

This team is a true bubble team in terms of being a good team and in making the tournament. Pull out a few of those close winnable games and you have a tournament team . The outcry of firing the coach and the belittlement of the players is disgraceful. Pitt isn’t Duke , never was and will never be and those expecting those kind of results are unrealistic.

ok, I got the snacks and you bring the juice boxes for next game

let's get the team mom thing set up a little earlier next season

stop the disgracing everyone, please

 

[FireballZ]

ok, I got the snacks and you bring the juice boxes for next game

let's get the team mom thing set up a little earlier next season

stop the disgracing everyone, please

I wouldn't mind him. He's the board simpleton. He was kicked in the noggin by a goat in '07.