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Pitt-Clemson Game Thread

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Mar 23, 2003
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23-20 Clemson

Austin's been good so far. Carrington...not so much. A lot of poor decisions hurting us.
 
37-26 @ half

Carrington has been awful. Girard goes off towards end of 1st half. Our offense is stagnant. We seem to run no plays to get guys open and get good shots. Then too much one-on-one and forced shots. We have our work cut out to come back.
 
Maybe credit Clemson’s defense, but yeah, we had almost zero rhythm to our offense leaving poor looks and shot selection.
 
Overall defensive effort from Pitt has been anemic. If that's the way they play defense, we won't be winning many games against even mediocre teams.

Carrington has been erratic at best. We need more consistency and steadiness from him. Careless turnovers and too much dribbling around just to either miss a shot or turn it over. The one-on-one playground ball won't cut it.

Still have a half to play. It will have to be a complete turnaround with the defense for us to have a chance in this one.
 
Maybe credit Clemson’s defense, but yeah, we had almost zero rhythm to our offense leaving poor looks and shot selection.

Clemson plays defense the way I wish we would. Same with Missouri. They aggressively pressure the Pitt player with the ball on every possession. Carrington with 3 turnovers just in the first half, one unforced and completely careless. He needs to quit reading his press clippings. He's having a hard time at this level. How can he think about the NBA?
 
This game was pretty even now down 11 at half

What the hell happened??!
 
23-20 Clemson

Austin's been good so far. Carrington...not so much. A lot of poor decisions hurting us.

Clemson's starting frontcourt has 15 rebounds at the half. Pitt's starting frontcourt with Hinson and Fede have 3 rebounds. Fede has 1 rebound in this game, which came on offense. We are -5 in rebound margin because of our frontcourt getting crushed.

Pitt is getting outscored 9-5 in 2nd chance points and 7-2 in fastbreak points.

Not a good half by either freshmen for Pitt.
 
70-68

Hinson bad foul away from the ball
Fede can't finish at the rim, misses two FT's
Fede turnover

Game over
 
Passing to Fede on offense has become useless. There is no point even passing to him unless its a lob dunk.

We have got this guy the ball so many times throughout the season within 3 feet of the basket and he either ends up passing it back out or taking a shot that generally isnt close to going in because he has zero skill to score in the inside. Or one of our guards turns it over trying to get him the ball.

We have a center that is a total non threat on offense and cant rebound on defense or in general. He is a lot closer to Terrell Brown than Gary Mcghee. What a disappointment.
 
Pitt starting frontcourt got outrebounded 28-9. Nice job by Fede with 1 defensive rebound today.
 
We can't play defense and rebound the way we did today and expect to win many if any games. Clemson gave us a clinic on how to run an inside out, passing offense. What do we do? We have Bub dribbling all over the place and missing shots for most of the game until it's too late. Other than Hinson and Leggett, who helped out?

With no defense, we have to score at least 80 to have a chance of winning most games we play. And even then, it's going to be close.
 
Even though Clemson was unconscious and seemed to have mad everything they put up pitt could have still won this game, the horrible foul shooting and carringtons out of control play, I know he is young but he is trying to play outside of himself
 
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