A fun, fun, fun day of post-holiday cleaning and snow shoveling. Wheeeeee.
It’s the DePaul Blue Demons coming to the Pete to play Pitt on Monday night on ESPN—–U. To kick off the start of Big East play for Pitt. True Big Monday games don’t start until the Mouse Monopoly runs out of MNF NFL games.
Consider this the warm-up,
Liveblog around 7pm.
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Are we really up by 13, or is that an old score?
Hail to Pitt!
Really, really impressed w. Pitt’s Defense and Gibb’s shooting. He may end up the best shooting guard ever at Pitt. What an exciting and exhilerating game to watch. A coache’s clinic.
Hail to Pitt….
I don’t know if a young team can maintain this type of effort and focus every game, but for now, this is a really nice win.
I am proud to admit that I was wrong thinking that Pitt had very little chance of winning .. this team has grown quite a bit the past 2 weeks but it is still going to be a grind.
Good start today….PITT just played “Survivor” hoops today–they outplayed, outlasted, and outsmarted Syracuse!
A true team Win!
Hail to PITT!
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Omar, be nice! It’s the start of a new year.
Let’s not lose our heads, no one will overlook us again, but this is going to be fun for a rebuilding year.
We saw a team get better before our eyes today. First ten minutes were ugly, but we saw them slowly get comfortable and begin to execute on both ends of the court. We still have a ways to go, but the more the starting five play together the better they will get. Brown is coming around and dante taylor stepped it up today.
Gibbs is amazing. He now owns the Pitt consecutive FT record at 37 and counting.
Hail to Pitt
amazing win today…………dixon was definitely getting more out his crew than Boeheim did out of his roster of better players.
Boeheim amazes me……..how can a team as long as his let Gibbs get off double-digit open treys? sometimes I think he just brings in great players and all he does is roll the balls out.
Great effort by Jermaine Dixon on D. I won’t count on him hitting three-pointers much, but his all-around effort including the boards was the key.
Taylor even showed up; they were better when he was in there and he was pretty active. He has a long way to go in terms of body-position defense, but at least he can rebound and block some shots at this point in this career. And that baseline jump shot was a surprise.
Boeheim needs to pull Scoop and Brandon aside and explain that Johnson and Joseph need to get the ball in places where they have mismatches. Total lack of coaching.
Definitely gives the panthers some confidence going in to the next 4 games.
You can absolutely still count me as a skeptic on this squad, but I’ll be rooting hard for them to somehow pull out 9 or 10 BE wins and make the tournament.
I am really liking the maturation process of this team. They are learning from their coach, and applying team principles that will translate to good quality wins. Like Jamie said early on, when he challenges this team…they respond.
Case in point– guard rebounding.
What I liked about this game was how our guards were rebounding and challenging after Jamie made it a point to focus on this in practive. Interesting comments from Boeheim afterwards that Pitt was the more physical team and how the guards outworked them on the glass….
I am still very skeptical on Tre, though. I hope he turns the corner soon.
My guess is we won’t hear much from you after a few losses pile up this year. That’s kind of the way it is with being on the bandwagon. Or if we do it will be in terms of how great next yr will be with the addition of a couple freshmen.
Hang in for the long term, Omar. The ghosts of Willard and Evans and Jaime Peterson and Brock Generalovich are calling you.
We just know to enjoy it while it lasts……
