I’m leaning towards a coffee stout for this game. Noon on Saturday. I really hope that Pitt isn’t feeling as lethargic as I am. It’s snowing again in the Cleveland area and I never shoveled out from the stuff that fell in the evening and night. I need Pitt to win so I can at least feel some motivation to shovel afterwards.
Quickly, Pitt’s struggling with rebounding and wants to finish strong down the stretch. The players knew they played poorly on Wednesday and paid for it on Thursday and Friday with “boot camp.”
Today is the 25th anniversary of the “sweater game” between G-town and St. John’s. There might be a little mention of this during the game.
LiveBlog around noon. ESPN360, ESPN FullCourt, MASN, MSG or FoxSports Pittsburgh have the game. Frustratingly, no HD.
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Hail to PITT!
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Two more left, this is a gritty team that has moxie!!!
So the live blog doesn’t run so live on my phone…MSG was less than half full. And there were a plenty of Pitt fans as well- including Sam Young, who sat behind the bench. Grizzlies are playing Knicks tonight…Lot of really obvious poor size matchups for Pitt and we handled it just fine. Someone on here mentioned that Woodall is not a good defender, but that’s not true. I’ve seen him play significant minutes in two games in person and he’s doing a great job. He’s an excellent help defender as well. He just gets caught on the switch sometimes. I don’t know, not much else to take away from this game. Dante does look a lot more active and seems to be reading situations better on both ends. He’s not as lost as he looked earlier in the year. And did I see him make a nifty left finger roll in the first half.?.?. He also posted up and called for the ball a lot on offense today. And it did seem like he was open at the baseline a bunch of times where his teammates opted not to pass to him. He’s still a year or two away from getting those feeds with confidence I suppose.
– I really don’t believe that McGhee and Taylor was on the court at the same time (I would like to attribute it to rounding off error … but doubt if that is true.)
– I’ve noticed that Gibbs misses every time he jumps before shooting .. but when he gets that quick release wiith min. jumping, he shoots much better .. as was the case of his key 3 pointer from the corner in the 2nd half to help thwart a SJU run
– I wonder if SJU suffers from like Pitt FB does when it comes to local civic support … a smaller fish in a bigger pond.
