Played better today - looked like a team - looked like we knew what we wanted to do and mostly did it, though we did miss several really good open looks
Gave the game away - on points from turnovers and 2nd, 3rd and 4th chance offensive rebounds
Got the short end on officiating
Carr and Stevenson rekindled some optimism
Looks like Stallings has a new plan that currently does not include Stewart or Brown
After today, at least some indication we can win some OC.
Agree, Gary. I liked quite a bit of what I saw our Panthers do today. I will say that I thought OK St was not a quick team, or good defensively and did not have much of an inside presence at either end. Having said that, when we were not turning it over, there was some really good screening, cutting, and passing that led to many layups and dunks.
Carr was impressive with his penetration and made alot of great passes off of it. I got to say, I don't remember the last time I saw a Pitt team get so many easy baskets inside.
The team needs to work on identifying 3 point shooters and closing out better after screens and switches. Mostly, though, they need to focus on rebounding, especially defensive rebounding. Had they rebounded their own glass slightly better today, they would have won.
The missed goaltend on Luther was a big call. We could have used that one. They also seemed to invent a few moving screen calls on us.
It does look like they are scaling down the amount of players they will use. Stewart and Brown were particularly weak defensively and may be benched for a while until they show improvement in practice.
I was encouraged by today's performance, however, as you said, it might lead to some OC wins, but we have mounds of work to do before I could envision even one conference victory.
