12/16: GT vs. Penn State at The Garden

[bigrabbit]

Ok we won.
Game will hopefully motivate some good work over holidays. Turnovers, inbounding, handling pressure, keeping up offensive intensity with a lead etc.

 

[awbuzz]

Pulled it out of the fire.
Had a rough go against the press.
Tough time getting inbound passes too.

But great over all rebounding.

Shout out to Tafara for crushing career high.

 

[bensaysitathome]

B1G network losing their minds over the phantom foul call, but the block that immediately proceeded it did not look clean at all. Am I missing something, or is their outrage more butthurt than anything else?

 

[AUFC]

We are going to keep running prevent offense the last 5 minutes of the game until we get punished for it. That day is not today.

What huge FTs by Miles Kelly.

 

[gte447f]

Shouldn’t have even been close, but I’ll take it. This team needs to be tougher minded at times, but they toughed it out in overtime, which was encouraging.

Way to go Jackets!

 

[gte447f]

What in the world has happened to Kelly’s 3 point shot? Hope he gets it back.

 

[scotts]

We are 6-3 with a win against Duke and a couple P5 teams including 1 that was in the top 20. Despite our flaws it has been a decent start for this program.

 

[CINCYMETJACKET]

I don't understand why some prefer to post to this thread throughout the game rather than being in the chat room.

 

[CINCYMETJACKET]

And it was a great win. Any win is a great win!

 

[57jacket]

Good experience for a young team. Winning a close game will definitely help this team's confidence, which was shaky down the stretch. Great win. No Whinning !!!

 

[D-man44]

 

[g0lftime]

We could use someone to attack the paint from the wing rather than all that perimeter passing. I hope Terry is that player. At times we just didn't get into the paint to break the defense. Lots of looks from 3 but got to hit those. It sure looked like a loss until the end of OT.

 

[MISSOURIJACKET]

Love seeing 25 assists on 32 FG.

 

[THWG]

Refs were piss poor for both sides to close it out, but I will take that win!! Need to keep learning and let the young guys play their game.

 

[GT33]

B1G network losing their minds over the phantom foul call, but the block that immediately proceeded it did not look clean at all. Am I missing something, or is their outrage more butthurt than anything else?

We rarely get a bad call like THAT!

That being said the OOB play that gave them 3 was atrocious. I only got to watch about 15 mins worth but in that short time there 3-4 crack back blocks, 2-3 facemasks, several tackles on defensiveless players, more than a few blocks in the back, a handful of chop blocks and definitely a fair number of targeting penalites that went uncalled. There was no way they could have called any holding penalties, you just about had to mug someone to get that called.

 

[awbuzz]

Turnovers about killed us, but rebounding was great overall.

 

[SecretAgentBuzz]

Nice win! We tried to give it away, Penn St. tried to give away, the refs tried to give it to PSU, the refs tried to give it to us....finally, Miles Kelly decided to take it and make those free throws!

The good:
-Gapare! 20 points, 6 rebounds, 3 threes, 2 blocks, and +11 on the court. He was huge, and we needed every bit of it. He seemed much more under control this game. Maybe its slowing down for him.
-Ndongo! When was the last time we had somebody get 19 rebounds! 19! He almost single-handedly out-rebounded PSU's whole team. He played solid defense on Wahab, and made some nice plays on offense too.
-George with 8 points and 8 assists. He looks very good and will only get better.
-25 team assists. I saw lots of good passing.
-Reeves. So smooth. So consistent I really wanted him to hit that last three.

The bad:
-17 turnovers and being foolish with the ball. Sometimes the ball slips out of your hands, but these TOs were a lot of dumb passes and lazy ballhandling.
-22% from 3 with Miles Kelly hitting 0 out of 7. Its amazing we could win with these stats. We should really stop shooting so many threes (or just start hitting them!)
-The complete breakdown and falling apart at the end of the second half. Lazy closeouts, lazy passes, and bad shots...we didn't do anything well in the last 5 minutes and were fortunate to get to OT.
-The BIG10 Network broadcast. They were total homers for PSU and showed some random dude and called him Lance Terry. They were bad.

We will absolutely take the win. We will hug the "W" and get out of NYC. It could have been much prettier, but the result was still a win, so we should all be glad. Go Jackets!

 

[awbuzz]

Hope Miles shooting picks up, his other stats are okay, below are the last 5 games. He does force the other to to still respect him.

The FT at the end of today's game were pressure on made!!

 

[Root4GT]

Nice win! We tried to give it away, Penn St. tried to give away, the refs tried to give it to PSU, the refs tried to give it to us....finally, Miles Kelly decided to take it and make those free throws!

The good:
-Gapare! 20 points, 6 rebounds, 3 threes, 2 blocks, and +11 on the court. He was huge, and we needed every bit of it. He seemed much more under control this game. Maybe its slowing down for him.
-Ndongo! When was the last time we had somebody get 19 rebounds! 19! He almost single-handedly out-rebounded PSU's whole team. He played solid defense on Wahab, and made some nice plays on offense too.
-George with 8 points and 8 assists. He looks very good and will only get better.
-25 team assists. I saw lots of good passing.
-Reeves. So smooth. So consistent I really wanted him to hit that last three.

The bad:
-17 turnovers and being foolish with the ball. Sometimes the ball slips out of your hands, but these TOs were a lot of dumb passes and lazy ballhandling.
-22% from 3 with Miles Kelly hitting 0 out of 7. Its amazing we could win with these stats. We should really stop shooting so many threes (or just start hitting them!)
-The complete breakdown and falling apart at the end of the second half. Lazy closeouts, lazy passes, and bad shots...we didn't do anything well in the last 5 minutes and were fortunate to get to OT.
-The BIG10 Network broadcast. They were total homers for PSU and showed some random dude and called him Lance Terry. They were bad.

We will absolutely take the win. We will hug the "W" and get out of NYC. It could have been much prettier, but the result was still a win, so we should all be glad. Go Jackets!

Give Penn State credit for causing turnovers. They fight hard thru screens and have active hands.

We clearl got tight and Sturdivant really struggled late in the game.

The play at the end of the game was well executhe. George beat his man off the dribble and made a nice pass to Ndango who made a good decision to fire it out to Reeves for a wide open 3. He missed but the play was good and he is a good guy to have an open 3 to win the game.

A bit of luck to pull it out but that does not matter. It goes in the books as a win.

Penn State's guards are very quick and they can shoot. They also have 2 former UNC players who were major contributors, Dunn (17 pts) and Puff Johnson. (15 pts)

 

[kg01]

Just checking in to give the PennSt broadcasters some cheese for dat whine they spilled all over their broadcast today, 'specially late.

Haha, as many times as we've been jobbed over the years. 'Bout time one bounced the riGhT way.