This dam car search is really eating into my life. Stuck looking a little longer than I hoped.
DVR. delay for me. Let’s see if Pitt stays hot on offense.
Ashton gets and stays hot, we could have a ballgame.
Keep up the intensity (thats been lacking most of the year) Hail to Pitt.
JJ raw talent, hope he works on ball handling and passing all summer. Has the potential to be great if he excells at those two skills next year.
Props to Gibbs and Nasir, great careers, asked to be too much this year.
Lets here all the negatives on Taylor. The guy was up aginst 2 6’10” players and held them to a total of 12 points, both 5 star recruits one a lottery pick next year. I will take Taylor on my team any time.
Start Gilbert and Taylor but Robinson were he always belonged on the bench (terrible defender and turnover machine -consistently attacks big men and piles up their block stats.).
Moore is the real deal. He is the best player on this team and could have done this weeks ago if Dixon had let him learn like good coaches do (Calhoun/Jermy Lamb).
Could make a run if players were coached like Uconn players when passing come hard to the ball, importantly the passer does not pass without a fake first. Twenty points to Unconn, 20 less opportunities to score. Good coaches must love to play Jamie’s teams.
Second lineup change.
Gilbert C
Taylor SF
Moore Sm. F
Gibbs
Patterson SG
Perhaps Patterson can make some stops outside. Cannot wait until Robinson comes 6’3″ excellent ballhandler, penetrator and shooter. In each of these facets better than both Gibbs and Woodall.
Adams and Moore could of had a field day today.
What good is the NIT going to do us? We are like a golfer with a bad swing. You can practice it over and over, but it is still a bad swing.
I dare say if Robinson and Adams were in uniform today Pitt would have won by 10 or more.
Adams is already the most athletic center not playing pro play of all the top centers I have seen on video or seen playing college ball.
Robinson is a smart qualiy ballhandler who can defend and it an excellent 3 point shooter.
Moore is strarting to scratch his potential and with Adams drawing pressure off him can be a 15 plus points a game scorer.
Taylor is a tough defender and with Adams on the other side he could gain 10 more pounds and score 10 or more a game on simple put backs.
Rebounding next year Adams, Taylor, and Moore that is a monster front line.
Shame on you.
JJ played 14 minutes in the 1st half. 16 min in 2nd.
To see a video of Adams against Norelens Noel the top rated center go to the above site. The site focuses on Noels but Adams out scored him 25 to 12 points and outrebounded him 15 to 12.
Major differnce is Adams ability to face up and shot the jumper while Noels is a one dimensional player.
Hail to Pitt.
Has anyone considered that alot of Taylors problems are he plays on a medicore team, as well as out of position (Robinson, Gibbs, Woodall).
Play big in the tournament. What can happen we turn the ball over more? Impossible. Move Gibbs to point, sit Woodall and Robinson (eliminate 10 turnovers.
Conneticut beat us on sloppy telegraphed passes and lazy come to the ball techniques. Pitt corrected the problem in 2nd half. However to go beyond the first round we have to stop what else has killed us this year giving up so many offensive rebounds (we get more total but the opponents are bigger get as many second chances and are able to convert them because we lack the size.
How to stop this. As they say in football by bowl time your no longer a freshman. Play Gilbert at center,what are we going to lose in points? With Taylor a SF his point production should increase. With both of them in there we should control the defensive board.
Moore is going to handle the scoring load. Hopefully Patterson can help on perimeter defense because of his height and he is a better shotter than Woodall. Gibbs will get his 8 points.
Attempt to get them to play as they did in second half of Conneticut game, no lazy pa worked passing. Try Moore bring ball across half court it worked well today.
It is worth a try.
Hopefully will get a run going in tourney and some NIT time with nrxt years boys playing more. Gibbs and Naz need to say adios.
A healthy Woodall will help if h can e an outside threat like he was often this year. The 2 and the 4 are my biggest worries. Not sure if Patterson can play the 2 guard well enough. Not sure of either Zanna or Taylor at the 4.
I would not be surprised to see a lot of Patterson at the 4 next year with Johnson, wright and the new guy (Jones? – too lazy to look up his name) fighting for time at the 2.
Moore at he 2 at Patterson at the 3 would solve some problems but don’t think JJ is a good enough ball handler.
Would like to see them get a few more games of work his year, but never want to Gibbs play the point again.
Only Kansas, Pitt and Gonzaga have had a run of 20 win seasons, 10 conference wins and 10 NCAA’s…and the BE smokes both conferences in quality.
Pitt was due for a down year and we’ve seen flashes of what is to come next year. Regardless of what you think, this team is light years ahead of where they were even two months ago. I’m looking forward to next year. I’m hoping PItt can rekindle some BE magic circa 2001.
I agree that Jamie Dixon’s model of developing his players for a couple of years in his system is what Pitt basketball is all about. All season long I have remained confident that he would get things turned around. But, I thought it would have come together, with a little better consistancy, by this time. I am confident that he will eventually get the program back on track. The question in my mind is whether or not that will happen next season.
Dixon’s fear of freshman and allowing players to learn while on the court (Moore) have lead him to play small Taylor out manned at the 5 and Woodall and Gibbs sloopy ballhandlers and poor defenders, notorious skillsets for the second level N.Y. and Philly guards (one dimensional) becuase they do not have the size to offset their mistakes.
Starting Gilbert from day 1 would have given Pitt an inside presence. Face it McGhee no offense lost from McGhee last year. Taylor a 4 without the weight loss is at least as quick as Biggs and he is a far better instinctional player. Against 4’s in BE few with two exceptions have any explosiveness he could have reduced the number of offensive rebounds and scores on second chances.
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Pitt gave up such a high percentage of shooting off of steals (terrble scheme breaking the press/coaching), lazy passes, the passer not quick faking the pass first and the reciver not coming strong to the ball to eliminate passing lanes (bad coaching), and a higher percentage of offensive rebounds due to lack of height inside (bad recruiting/no center recruited since McGhee untill this year and not playing Gilbert from 1st game loss early end strong).
This has been Dixon’s legacy that must change next year to send signals to top players. Start Robinson and Adams and let them learn in November and December rather than running up an impressive non-conference record and hope to slide into the NCAA.
Now Gibert, Taylor, Moore, Patterson, Gibbs.
Next year from game 1, Adams, Taylor, Moore, Patterson, Robinson
When healthy Woodall’s main problem is trying to hard to create, which results in his high TO ratio — which has been admittedly historically awful for Pitt PGs. But let’s not forget that he’s hurt and its really hard to be in sync with your team when you can’t practice with them the whole year and even when your back you have to miss practices. Its HUGE for PGs who more than anyone have to understand their team mates habits, know where they’re gonna be after any given move on the court. Woodall’s a hard working, smart kid who is no doubt very aware of his short comings. And, he’s not gonna have to try as hard to create next year with JJ Moore coming into his own, Patterson, Johnson, having more experience and a really good centers keeping the defense honest next year. and god willing he’ll be healthy. And a senior.
I’m pretty confident next year’s team is gonna look a lot different and there’s many reason for me to think it’ll will look a lot better. My guess:
PG -Woodall
SG – Patterson if we go big, Johnson if small
SF – JJ Moore if we go big, Patterson if small
PF – Taylor/Zanna if big, Moore if small
C – Gilbert, until BE play when Adams is ready.
The PF is the big question mark cuz we have no one on the roster who can really play it. JJ Moore/Patterson are the closest but we need them elsewhere. I don’t think this is gonna be a huge problem though.
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PG..robinson/Woodall
SG..Woodall/Johnson
SF..Moore/Patterson/Wright
PF..Taylor/Zana
C.. Adamas/Gilbert
before the game was even over i texted my friend saying how much of an impact adding aams will be, along with gilbert. gilbert makes a HUGE impact in the game–nobody scores in the paint, he blocks shots, changes shots, and rebounds. plus he has quick ala when he was 1v1 on boatwright and boatwright had to chnge his shot so severely that it almost missed everything– and that huge impact comes with him being offensively gifted. add adams whos the same size as gilbert but make him more athletic and give him a polished offensive game, and between just adams and gilbert, they should have about 4-7 blocks per game. i dont want there to be a single minute next year when both adams and gilbert on the bench.
ps–it makes me so angry when gilbert has PERFECT position on the low block and nobody gives him the ball.
Historically does this include Miller, Knight, Fields???
