A Few Thoughts on the St. Joe's Game...Hoops

I love the 2 p.m. tip on a Monday. Now I just wish I was in Maui.

Nice writeup. Can’t say I know much about this St. Joe’s team but from watching many of Dunphy’s teams over the years from when I lived in Philly, I’m surprised at their turnover ratio. There’s certainly no Jameer Nelson on the squad but they’ve always taken care of the ball pretty well as Dunphy is a very good coach on fundamentals.

We should wipe them clean on the glass and hopefully finish the job at the free throw line.

I expect Balbay to take a nice leap this week with his contributions from the PG spot.

I mean what Turk doesn’t feel right at home in Hawaii?

I forgot Dunphy left for Temple a few years agop. The same would apply to Martelli though, they’re both solid coaches.

I thought Dunphy went from Penn to Temple. Martelli’s been there for at least 5 years.

Any idea if you can catch the game online anywhere….. please just don’t say ESPN 360. We don’t have a cable co. that supports it.

Try channelsurfing.net

Gamecast frustrations:

3:00 20-32 A.J. Abrams Defensive Rebound.
2:52 20-32 A.J. Abrams missed Three Point Jumper.

Thanks Vash

Barnes is playing for tomorrow. Atchley and Mason have hardly played. Barnes realizes Harangody and McAlarney are going to be a bitch to deal with.

We can’t have Dogus and Varez on the floor at the same time. Teams will zone us to death.

Abrams actually looks good on the ball. Problem is that he’s more effective shooting the ball coming off screens.

Damion James is killing us with quick midrange shots. He needs to get to the rim or run offense. I mentioned how these shots undermine what we should try to accomplish. We should look for easy buckets in transition or run offense with the idea of pounding with our big people. Quick midrange jumpers in between suit the Hawks just fine.

We looked quick and aggressive on defense the first ten minutes. Bo Ryan good. Benching Atchley and Mason, even for good reason, has cost us the last ten minutes. But I get what Barnes is doing.

I think both Atchley and Mason both have 2 fouls, hence their limited play time. I expect to see them return in the 2nd half.

starting the 2nd half off right

Whodat, you’re probably right. But limiting their minutes wouldn’t be a bad idea.

Thanks for your thoughts Trips. They’re much appreciated.

James is doing a much better job of looking to attack the rim.

Pittman can be a weapon if we would enter the goddamn ball.

holy crap our d is good.

Dogus in. Two-three zone. Get used to it partner. We need to put some shooters on the floor to help him out.

Nice games from Gary Johnson and Wangmene.

Balbay is still hesitant at PG. Abrams is our best PG right now, as difficult as it is to say. I’d much rather have him at the 2.

Mason and Ward are both out of synch offensively today.

Vash,

Johnson and Wangmene looked very good. Mason and James were disappointing. Balbay is still rusty, but showed some flashes with a couple of would be dimes that our bigs need to catch and finish. We’ll find out an awful lot more about this team tomorrow because ND has a crap load of talent.

I agree we could have our hands full with the Irish. Harangody is a stud.

I’d like to get our starters out of the game like five minutes ago.

You can see glimpses of the good things that Balbay will eventually bring to the table more consistently.

Wangmene was pretty awesome today: 8 point and 7 rebounds in just 9 minutes. I wondered when he was finally going to get an opportunity.

Gary had 14 points and 10 rebounds in just 23 minutes. Dex did not get too many opportunities to score but he got 4 points, 5 rebounds, 2 steals, 1 block, and 1 nice assist in just 10 minutes.

Ward had 4 assists in 12 minutes. The guy is a player.

Mason needs to learn to not throw the ball low to the big guys. Maybe the best approach is to get the ball to the high post first and let the high post guy pass the ball to the low post guy.

Re Balbay: it is hard to play a PG who can not hit the college 3 so I hope Balbay can hit the 3.

I don’t get the impression that Mason and Damion are real great at ball handling.

The horns are going to have lots of opportunities for fast breaks but Barnes is going to have to deal with the fact that fast breaking attacks are going to have some turnovers. The way he reamed Ward (a true freshman) when Ward slightly overthrew Connor was a bit excessive.

Sure wish Barnes encouraged an inside-out attack instead of encouraging guys to jack up the first clear 20 foot jumper that is available.

Atchley sat most of the first half because of two fouls.

If they pack the defense, they can play with anyone. Problem as I see it is that last year’s 88-84 game is more likely to be 58-54 this year because they haven’t worked out how to score. FTs are adventures, and inside shots are estimates.

They can win with defense, but they need more twos.

“The way he reamed Ward (a true freshman) when Ward slightly overthrew Connor was a bit excessive.”

That’s the way he’s always done it.

“Sure wish Barnes encouraged an inside-out attack instead of encouraging guys to jack up the first clear 20 foot jumper that is available.”

Ya think he was encouraging those…?

I could only watch the first half, but . . .

I have no problem with Damian James’s shot selection or jumper’s off the dribble. He has a very good two dribble then jump shot move. Those shots are going in and out. When they start falling he will be fine.

I know he needs to get to the rim, but he gets out of control when he attacks the basket.

AJ is our best point guard.

I think Barnes does encourage AJ, Damian, and Atchley to take any shot they can get. A bad shot from them has statistical advantages over a layup from Clint Chapman.

We are a much, much better team with Connor Atchley in the game than without.

How about this shit?

NBA DRAFT NET – Senior Rankings Released

Connor Atchley
Photo: IconSMI

atchely over hansbrough, we’ll see

You guys sure are serious for this early in the season. I get the sense Barnes is just fooling around with some lineups and wants to see what the best offensive strategy will be. This team is pretty good.

It’ll be interesting to see what Vegas does with this team. Only a nine-point favorite yesterday.

Ransom that’s the most optimistic thing I’ve ever heard from you.

i saw Texas -2.5, is that what you see?

Trips, are you going to preview Notre Dame today?