Barring OT in the OK St-Texas Tech game, it looks like the Pitt-G-town game will start on time and without any delay of TV coverage. Of course, with the Cowboys, there is no guarantee of that.
2:07: Tip-off and Kendall was the center. They are saying Gray might still play.
2:14: 6-5 Pitt. Problem is I think Graves just picked up his 2nd foul.
Pitt has gotten Georgetown being a bit sloppy. Forcing turnovers and getting Hibbert playing further from the basket.
Cook has 4 points.
Hibbert has 1 foul.
2:22: Gray in the game. A little slower (hard to imagine), but able to run and play. Pitt leads 11-7, 11:50.
2:33: Pitt struggling horribly to get a basket at this point. Hell, just struggling to score. Now down 16-11. It’s been at least 6 minutes since their last FG. Some missed looks, blocks, and good defense has frustrated the offense. It’s not G-town has looked that good. They are just able to convert a few more now, and not turning the ball over as frequently.
2:43: 3:56 to the half, Pitt trails 20-19. Ewing, Jr. is a pest in the best possible way — if he’s on your team.
Gray looks decent. The size of Georgetown is more of a problem for Pitt as they try to get guys driving to the hoop. The only good thing, they are drawing fouls against the Hoyas.
3:06: Sorry, my network crashed for a bit. Interesting to look at who’s missing in the box score.
Young 2-6, 5 points, 2 rebounds
Fields 0-2, 4 assists, 1 TO
Graves 0-2, 1 assist and 1 TO
Kendall 0-1, 1 rebound
Gray 3-5, 7 points, 4 rebounds
Cook 2-5, 4 points, 1 assist, 1 steal and 3 TOs
3:18: Just the way they drew that up with Fields airballing a 3 that Cook read grabbed and put back. 33-33
3:30: Pitt leads 44-36. 11:49 remaining. An 18-3 run. Wow.
Seeing something from everyone right now.
3:51: I hate typing it, as it sounds like whining, but these refs suck.
It’s 49 all with under 5 minutes left. Both Pitt and Georgetown have played great on defense.
4:20: Pitt lost this game. I’m disappointed, but not upset. 61-53.
Gray looks like he’ll be playing the rest of the season. Even before the Gray injury, this was going to be a tough game for Pitt to win.
Both teams played great defense, Yes the Hoyas shot close to 50%, but they only had 36 attempts. Pitt’s defense severely limited their possessions. That was huge when you are talking about the most efficient offense in the country. You don’t expect to hold them to under 40% as much as limit their opportunities.
Do I think Pitt could have shot better than they did? Hell yes. Once again, the Pitt guards struggled with their shooting — all of them. Ramon was the most “accurate” at 3-9. Benjamin missed all 3 of his shots. Graves was 1-5. Fields, 2-8. Some shots were just bad luck — halfway down before coming out. Others were some missed open looks. But the majority of them came in the teeth of some great defense.
I think at times it is easy to forget how much it matters how the other team plays. Simply, Georgetown did play great defense against Pitt. Staying out on the guards to keep them on the perimeter and really battling inside.
Pitt worked hard in this game. They out rebounded the Hoyas and got more chances to shoot.
I’m still bothered by the refereeing. Not for the foul disparity. 29-16 in difference of attempts is not nearly so bad since Pitt missed several front ends of 1-and-1s to skew it a little higher. And, when you’re on the road, you should never expect the foul calls to go your way. What bothered me was the sheer randomness of the calls.
That said, Pitt was 8-16 on FTs (Gray and Young 3-10) while the Hoyas shot 22-29, to really win it at the line.
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Man I love Pitt, but this is the exact reason why it’s hard to imagine them winning a national championship. Even when other teams are playing poorly, Pitt find a way to play even worse.
They’ve gotten Georgetown to commit a bunch of early turnovers and have even grabbed a good number of offensive rebounds, but their shooting has been abysmal.
This is disgusting…no field goals in the past four minutes.
Georgetown’s defense looks intimidating and is playing well. We’re doing pretty darn good considering everything.
Gray is playing well, all things considered, but given his lack of movement I’d rather see him resting for the BE tourney or NCAAs.
Yes cook needs to learn that will be a travel this game.
This game should be even the way we’re winning the offensive boards (9-4) and turnovers. Only the refereeing is keeping them in it (have all but 1 of the calls been “on the floor” against them?) and our shooting (which still sucks).
This is embarassing.
As my middle school coach would say, either foul the kid like you mean it or don’t foul at all. There’s no sense giving up and-1 plays.
This is a game between two teams that really play it tight.
Thanks guys. Dare i say it? Same old pitt.
I don’t care who we were playing, who was injured, and where it was at, it was a winnable game that we let get away down the stretch plain and simple.
We STILL haven’t won a big game, and today’s non-clutch, completely ball-less effort doesn’t make me feel any better about it.
Now we just have to win the next 2.
When have they ever burried a team this year and don’t tell me about tearing up an FSU team that was playing horrible at the time.
We STILL haven’t won a big game, and today’s non-clutch, completely ball-less effort doesn’t make me feel any better about it.”
It truly was winnable down the stretch but once again they could not do it. Untimely TOs, sloppy passes, bad judgment, and the list goes on.
The only big game we have won was the first GU game, and that was at home. The play in this game and other close losses does not bode well for the tourney, where every team will bring their “A” games.
The freakin point is they did not in this game and did not in almost all of their games. Translation: they can’t freakin do it.
We miss every wide open shot, and gray and kendall couldn’t tip in a shot to saver their lives.
If we beat WVU it will be a miracle. And we have no shot against Marquette. 4th seed for BE. I say we will have to play the winner of Notre Dame/Marquette vs St Johns in the tourney, another loss, and Georgetown again in the semis. We’ll end about 24-9. 4 or 5 seed in NCAA. Out in first or second round again.
Right now, i’m just hoping we win another game the rest of the year.
2/7 versus WVU .. we took advantage that they fell behind and even a small run could not help them.(again, they were 6 feet under with a lot of time to go)
In the FSU game, the Seminoles never had a chance..they were dead men walking by the middle of the first half.
kenny, This is the Big East, teams seldom get “buried” by anyone let alone a ball possession team like Pitt against the nbest team in the conference. I was hoping we opened up a 20pt lead as well, but it isn’t realistic to think we could “bury” GT.
Good point about Kendall not fouling hard enough. Make then earn 2, not an and-one.
Both Gray & Kendall are slow inside. Gray is the only true inside threat, Cook is TO machine, we have only one capeable PG, PF is a weak link, SF (see Cook), overall consistency of play deficiency…. The list goes on and on.
Just be happy that they have done as good as they have. But the BE is truly not good this year. It is a down year for the conference and the preseason pick to win it, will not win it.
My only comment. Sat near Ramon’s family…Ramon and Fields lost this game for Pitt. Ramon had at least 7 turnovers and another 5 almost’s (most at the top of the key)GT jumped out and took away passing lanes and Pitt looked baffled late.
Fields was horrendous, trying to put on a dribbling exhibition rather than giving up the ball. GT traped him for turnovers 4 X. Very poor ballhandling late and absolutely NO penetration on GT when 3 of their players were in foul trouble. No more excuses….a poorly coached game by Dixon and poorly played by the players. The late turnovers would be aggregeous at a Jr High School Game!!
We are in big trouble if we lose to WVU and might not win another game.
And Florida will win its conference. We can’t even do that.
Pitt fans don’t suck – we put up with this every year, still buy season tickets, still go to games. I went to the first round games and watch them disgrace themselves yet again last year. And I’m sure they will again this year – its the same old team.
Personally, I think these guys can shoot, it’s just a slump. Georgetown although they didn’t challenge a ton of our threes played very strong overall defense. Overall our perimiter guys are making over 38% of their threes. Cook might be the only one I see as just being a bad jump shooter. Relax.
Ramon had 7 tos? Really?
Is that for the year? Cause the last 5 games, we’re at 27%. 23 of 85. I’m thinking I’m more concerned how we are playing now then early non-conference teams. They have only 3 games to get out of this slump or they’ll be an early exit to a team worse than Bradley.
