Interesting stats, both teams hit 17 FGs and 7 threes, Pitt shot 59% from the field, ND 57%. Pitt outrebounds ND by 10.
GAME THREAD - Pitt vs Notre Dame .......
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Notre Dame shot 56.7% from the floor, 53.8% from three. We have not forced even one turnover yet. The notion that what we just saw from Pitt was anything other than awful defense is laughable.
Should be ahead by more than 6. As well as Young played hè began to force things. Dumb foul to get number 3 . Looking at a dogfight here for sure the way we play defense.
And by the way, if we exclude Jackson Notre Dame shot 57.1% from the field and 50% from three. And still didn't commit even one turnover.
It's not all just Jackson, not by a long shot.
It's not all just Jackson, not by a long shot.
A good percentage of that 53.8% were from 5 feet beyond the arc or with a hand in their face. Can't do anything about that.
The calls on young, at least two of them were awful. Robinson got tackled when he drove the lane the one time and no call. The ref in the backcourt called a foul on ANO under the hoop when the ref right by the play didn't.
They were horrific.
Some that is going to happen against a good coached team.
Youngs 3rd was really ticky tacky but he shouldn't have been in there, atleast there are good players behind him.
Everyone in the Universe knows ND lives and dies by the 3----but we still can't defend them
Agreed.
JRob and Artis have to carry the team for a little while since we'll probably start the half with Young on the bench.
Yeah, one of them was from well beyond the arc. And of course there wasn't a hand anywhere near Jackson's face on that one.
Jackson was hitting step back 35 footers and threes with hands in his face . Nothing you can do . We hit a bunch of shots two , but they were all quality shots.
Hahaha. Fine? Don't want to make this a personal issue with you, I enjoy your posts. But before the Maia reach in, Notre Dame's defender on the other end completely wrapped his arms around J-Rob. Not a single person on Earth can seriously say that was not a foul. It was as obvious as a foul will ever be.
While the way it happened was kind of weird, about the score I'd expect with two teams that don't really play much defense. I thought Pitt got a little to three point happy, I would have liked to have seen the ball thrown inside to Young more.
I guess Jeter will start the second half, which isn't the worst replacement. I usually would criticize Jamie there, but the way Mike was dominating, he's an upperclassmen and you have to trust him there. I also thought Chris Jones had a good half. Of all of the Panthers, Smith was just brutal on defense. I think 4 different guys scored on him driving to the hoop.
Key for Pitt is keeping Artis in rhythm, not giving up second chance points, and not getting overwhelmed when ND makes runs. Its hard to believe, but this is our first road game. I thought we did OK in keeping composure there, in the last minute we actually gained 2 points. Robinson is going to have to hit a couple shots, or at least drive to the hoop.
HAIL TO PITT
I guess Jeter will start the second half, which isn't the worst replacement. I usually would criticize Jamie there, but the way Mike was dominating, he's an upperclassmen and you have to trust him there. I also thought Chris Jones had a good half. Of all of the Panthers, Smith was just brutal on defense. I think 4 different guys scored on him driving to the hoop.
Key for Pitt is keeping Artis in rhythm, not giving up second chance points, and not getting overwhelmed when ND makes runs. Its hard to believe, but this is our first road game. I thought we did OK in keeping composure there, in the last minute we actually gained 2 points. Robinson is going to have to hit a couple shots, or at least drive to the hoop.
HAIL TO PITT
Look... .Past Pitt teams would be playing better defense and be down about 32-29 right now.
That's not who we are anymore.
Embrace the up-tempo offensive games. A 6-point lead is a 6-point lead.... whether it is 49-43 or 25-19.
Embrace who we are.
That's not who we are anymore.
Embrace the up-tempo offensive games. A 6-point lead is a 6-point lead.... whether it is 49-43 or 25-19.
Embrace who we are.
You're nuts. The non-call on Robinson was the bad one. On Young's last foul he reached in and hit the guy on the arm. That's a foul all day, every day. He got called for a foul against Auguste when he was shooting that if it happened on the other end and we didn't get the call we'd be screaming about for the rest of the day. I notice you also didn't mention the shooting foul that we got when Jeter was attempting to tip in a rebound. That gets called a shooting foul pretty much never, and yet we got two foul shots out of it today.
Take off the blue and gold glasses.
Artis and Young were in fire and shooting a lot. Would you rather James just hoist some threes, just to get some points? What a silly post. We scored 49, how much should we have scored? 60?
I think Dixon is too conservative in playing guys with 2 fouls. Maybe Young scores 6 points in the last two minutes and we go up by 12. I don't really believe in saving players...I mean, Mike could get his 3rd foul 10 seconds into the second half.
I think you have to trust Mike there to play 2 minutes without fouling, and Mike just had a brain fart and fouled over the back on an offensive rebound.
He did have 3 assists, so I'm not sure what the problem is really. Artis and Young were scorching hot, and Robinson isn't selfish enough to shoot just so he can get some points.
J-Rob non call was flat out insane. Couple other really bad calls too. But I will agree at least 2 of the Mike Young fouls were the correct calls. Not saying we haven't done our fair share of fouling, but the bad calls today were so bad it was laughable.
He was trying to tip in a rebound. That almost never gets called a shooting foul, it almost always gets called a foul on the rebound.
And the third one was the offensive foul when they were using the goofy corner end zone camera angle and there is no way you can say if Young hooked the guy or not based on what we actually saw.
You are correct. But when Jeter went to tip it in, he was clearly slapped on the wrist. In that situation you have to call that.
Call a foul, yes, absolutely. It's that they called it a shooting foul that was unusual.
There was 1:07 to play in the 1st half when Young got his 2nd foul and there was a stoppage in play ..... he should have been taken out ..... mistake by Jamie.
I agree. I generally don't think it's necessary to take a guy with two fouls out (depending on the player), but once you get to the last minute or so of the half get those guys out. No sense taking a chance.
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