Sorry that this is a little slap-dashed. Barely had time to squeeze in a real post earlier today, and the football news had to be done. So, that leaves a weak effort to lead into tonight’s Big Monday.
ESPN. 7pm. Raftery, Bilas, McDonough. Big Monday for the last time.
If there’s one thing to miss in the end of Pitt’s time in the Big East. It is no more Big Monday. Oh, there will be Super Tuesday. Whatever Wednesday. The Sunday Night Hoops thing. But Big Monday still ruled them all.
No doubt Mike Brey and his mock turtlenecks have had Pitt’s number in the last few years. Whether it was the burn offense, killing Pitt on the perimeter, or just plain beating the Panthers. Notre Dame : Pitt :: Pitt : Syracuse.
Hopefully Pitt is a little pissed after the Marquette game. Time to take it out on the Irish.
And we don’t have anyone left on the schedule that beating alone would put us back into the rankings,
without Top 25 teams losing.
So for the simple minded…that would make this a:
MUST WIN !
Losing it would concern me because frankly, despite the Irish being ranked, it would be a loss to a weak team at home.
I guess that HOUSE IS IN THE HOUSE!!!!!!
On top of the House hire, a loss tonight after blowing a 17 point first half lead will send a good many of us over the edge.
Jamie needs to start working the officials. Take Zanna out until after half. If Pitt loses it proves the computers don’t know diddly.
Patterson, Robinson, and Adams all have two fouls as well. I have a bad feeling about this one. Offensively, Pitt looks like they have nothing and ND is due to make shots after the start they had.
If I was Coach Dixon, I might consider playing Dante more at the 4 to try and wake up Zanna. He is doing nothing.
Zanna is a waste of a uniform again tonight. Sit his ass down.
Anyway, to the point at hand, no excuse for not stepping on their throats early by making all those easy looks we were getting. Also no excuses for taking terrible shots thereafter and letting them back in it.
Good link, but not tonight they aren’t.
ND actually helping us by taking a lot of time on offense. I don’t think we could score if only one ND player was on the floor.
So f’ing tired of this sh*t, and this athletic department. Glad there is a James Bond marathon on another channel.
Bring back Malcolm Gilbert.
Miller time.
Ken Pomeroy would like to retract his recent article….Pitt is overrated….and brey still owns Dixon.
Two Pitt players care to chance shoot from the field: Cam W. & J. Robinson.
Nice rebounding..
It Sucks.
And I don;t want to hear from anyone about my comments on the defensive hire. We have two fricken months to hire a coordinator, we know what budget we have…and we do not make a hire of an accomplished d coordinator.
With our university, as goes our basketball team…”one step forward, three steps back”
That’s 5 minutes without a single point.
I’m done with these clowns for the year….
Sparing ourselves the annual NCAA Tournament choke job.
Well, it was annual till last year.
No way they win a game in the NCAA’s if they do sneak in…
Come in a 10 point favorite, blow a 16 point lead at home, lose by a dozen or more. If there has been a more embarrassing performance than this, well, we may have to go back to the 1990s to find it.
Face it. This is what we get with Dixon, and will get in the future. You could put the dream team out there, and Dixon will still wind up with the same record, bomb in the BE tournament, get a low seed, lose to an even lower seed, and we will all be watching for the articles on spring football.
I stopped drinking the Dixon Kool Aid 2 years ago. Apparently, while the fans will not settle for this mediocrity, sadly, this Athletic Department will.
Still want to recruit all stiffs who can play D and can’t shoot Dixon? Look at tonight’s box score and get a clue…
Let this one sink in for a little bit, get to work hard, and go beat the johnnys in order to stay in the top 25.
HTP
That said, this WAS to me the worst effort since the Rutgers game (last year, this year’s Rutgers loss was not that horrendous). Notre Dame is not a good team. Pitt let them up off the mat, then managed to out-terrible them the rest of the way. Maybe it will serve as a wakeup call.
By the way, what happened to our “10 deep” roster? Same thing that happened to our “blue collar” defense? Maybe we should now call it “10 shallow”?
We need a coach that can recruit and coach to win in a much tougher conference than the Big East. As it now stands, we might be able to beat Wake Forest and Florida State (this year, at least). Otherwise, I give our football team a better chance in the ACC than basketball.
But I give the chances of Stevie the Pete having the guts to pull the plug on the Jamie Dixon experience about 1 in 100.
“Jamie loves this type of basketball. He’d rather lose this way than win 100-97, as we did a few years ago.
Until Jamie gets some scorers and actually let’s them score (he’s done part one of this, but his famed “quick hook” usually breaks in any frosh with a scoring acumen), then this is what we should expect. Yes, he’ll win 20+ games and make the NCAA’s. But we all know where it goes from there.
And you better believe in all the losses he will whine about defense and rebounding, and not take crap shooting/offense into account……EVER.”
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“Yes, it is a stretch. But truthfully, I’m sick of watching this type of bogged down offense. If you are going to recruit guys like Moore, Durand Johnson, and Josh Newkirk, who come to Pitt with reputations for shooting/scoring, then let them be who they are. Stop with the quick hook every time they do something you don’t like.
Heck you could have benched Robinson or Wright 800 times the past two games for all of their screw ups on offense and losing guys/getting burned on defense.
At some point, you have to learn to incorporate guys who come in with scoring acumens into your rotation and philosophy. That’s what makes a great coach. Stop beating them over the head with “pass the ball 5 times, look for the perfect shot, and play defense”. Otherwise, it will be more of the same.”
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“Dixon has turned players like JJ Moore and Trey Zeigler…(highly recruited guys who can score) into confused out of place players.
This is pretty much my response. Maybe Moore isn’t that player. Or maybe Jamie’s quick hook and approach have beaten that skill out of him and made him a guy who plays confused and out of place. I think there is an argument for both. The first two years, it was blatantly obvious that Moore was playing looking over his shoulder.
You can’t develop a player that way. Sure, you may get what you want in the end. But any skills that player brought to Pitt, offensively that is, will be totally lost in that transition.”
And saying anyone is the best coach ever at Pitt is like saying you are the cleanest hog on the farm. Not like we have had a lot of legends coaching here, at least in my time.
1. What the hell kind of offense, or should I say, lack of offense do we run. It looks like it has no rhyme or reason, has no purpose.
2. They still talk about playing Pitt is physical. We have no bruisers. No Lett, no Troutman, no Blair. We don’t have bulky tough guys.
3. We can’t shoot. I’m not talking about just tonight and the clanker brigade. We have no dead eye. None.
4. I’ve never seen so many guys open for jump shots, that pump fake a guy 3 feet away, to then go and dribble into the middle, to take a contested shorter shot. What is that???
5. Patterson, out of control going to the rim, body out of control, guess what, shot is out of control.
6. Woodall and Robinson. MEDIOCRE. Go watch some top 20 teams tonight, this week, this weekend, then tell me what you see compared to our guards.
7. Adams, freshman, but still, you have to back your guy closer to the basket, so you can make a power move. If you get the ball 6 feet away, you can’t turn and power up.
8. Adams, he has no help out there. Zanna, he has no idea what he’s doing. He has no game
9. JJ Moore. Clank. When he goes to the hoop, he ends up at his apex, two or three feet away and throws some garbage up.
10. @EMEL. Sleepy actually seemed to have a little fire, then I didn’t see him much.
This all leads me to a pretty simple conclusion.
We’re not that good. 10 of our wins came against garbage. We beat G-town and Syracuse. Great. Where’d that get us???
The 03′-10′ teams would run this team off the court!!
No heart, no bulk, and mix that in with a little poor shooting and a no sense of what they’re trying to accomplish, and this is what you get.
Always defended Dixon. Better get your act together. You’re not blameless either. Whether it’s not pushing the right buttons now, not utilizing the players correctly, and the past couple years recruiting, you have to answer to this game too.
DISGUSTING is an understatement.
Might as well get all the bad news out of our systems.
It’s the coaches responsibility to get the players moving without the ball on offense.
I feel sorry for Adams. Every game he is manhandled by the center and strong forward, no one pays any attention to Zanna. When the guards do get the ball to him the pass is at his ankles or their right next to him so the defending guard collapses immediately
He should go to the pros were he can get some coaching build up his stregth and be a dominate force. If he wannts to stay in college transfer to any one of a hundred schools that shoots higher than 20% from the 3 point line and over 30% from the field.
Forget this crap about 10 man rotation; Adams, Patterson, Taylor and Zanna fight it out this week, Moore and Zeigler, Robinson and Woodall.
Adams, Zeigler, Robinson are completely new. The rest aren’t much.
As I said Adams carries the burden because of the expectations (he will be great). The other top players this year are playing for UCLA, Kentucky, Arizona not much comparison among the supporting cast. Not one honorable mention big east candidate on the sguad.
Pitt’s offense is one of the most efficient in the nation, and it’s because they get rebounds. when they don’t, like tonight, they struggle to score. So he stresses rebounds because they are the one part of this team’s offense that makes it function. Always have been. Even in the year when Pit had its best team, 2008-2009, they were good offensively because Blair was an offensive-rebounding machine. That’s who Pitt is. It’s the teams who outrebound them who consistently beat them. That is why he stresses rebounding, because that is what loses them games.
Love Jamie, but he is far from blameless in this mess.
Simply horrible.
The NCAA is not in our future. We frankly don’t deserve any post season play. We will be one and done in the BE.
Simply horrid basketball. Horrid.
A lot of you guys are acting like a bunch of little girls.
Put your big boy pants on.
Thanks Dan72, especially coming from a coach.
I’m no basketball wizard, just a fan saying what I see.
Allthough we have more wins than last year, and are a better team, the thing I noticed about both last years team, and this years, no passion for the game.
Maybe we were spoiled with Lett, and Troutman and Young and Blair and Paige. Throw down dunks, stare downs, pounding their chests.
Goodnight all. 19-3?? Are you friggin’ kidding me???
Their biggest win (by margin of victory) at the Pete EVER.
Their biggest Big East win ever.
The biggest defeat of Georgetown at home by anyone in like 40 years.
A win over Syracuse.
Very near-miss losses to Louisville and Michigan.
So they also have some crap games on their resume, but it’s fewer than you might think. Marquette played an inspired game on Saturday that would have beaten anyone. It’s really just the Rutgers loss, tonight’s loss, and the Kennessaw State win that were that bad.
I am not happy with the team right now, but we all need to take a step back. They were always a good but not great team this year. They are one season away from a complete disaster, and it takes time to build. They’re not a national title contender, but neither are they the mess a lot of teams would be after a year like last year.
The Jamie Dixon hate is just misdirected anger. There are a handful of better coaches in the country, but only a handful. Who do you think Pitt is going to get that’s better? Tom Izzo ain’t coaching at Pitt. So let’s be happy with the man who has won 75% of his games as a HC and taken Pitt to (about to be) 9 of 10 NCAA Tournaments. A surprisingly low number of programs can make that sort of claim. A surprisingly low number of teams have won as many games as he has in his time at Pitt.
Seriously bunch of idiots on here. You all will constantly defend a 6-7 head coach with the 40th ranked recruiting class. But Dixon loses against an undefeated at home Marquette team and a tournament bound ND team and it’s the end of the world. Get a grip people. Bad losses happen. The team is still good.
Promoting a nothing to DC and then blowing a 22-3 lead.
Thinking of going back to Grad school just to have have another allegiance in sports.
Today was pitiful all the way around.
The ’03 and ’10 teams would have run this team off the court, but Marquette and Butler would have beaten all of them.
This was the feature game on in the bar/restaurant, most said Pitt didn’t deserve to win.
Me being the ultimate Pitt person, said “hey wait a minute, anybody playing ND deserves to win”. At this point we were only 3-4 points behind. They all shut up.
Boy did Pitt make me look like a schmuck.
From that point forward with 6 minutes to go. PITT played with no passion at all.
Dixon waited far to long to start pressing (what’s new) and the team fired up bad shot after bad shot.
That’s 3 losses at home in a down year in the BigEast. And the Top 25 was on the line tonight against a team that was reeling after getting trounced by Providence just Saturday.
I hate Mondays anyway, today I hate it 20 times more.
VeV
My starting line up would look like this:
Adams 5
Taylor 4
Patterson 3
Woodall 2
Robinson 1
Back up Adams with Zanna. He has no offensive moves anyhow and is a mechanical robot who stands around and watches and we are getting murdered inside in all phases of the game.
Play em til they drop or foul out. Sub with the others for minutes only. Let the starting 5 get in a rythem and stay in a rythem.
Zanna should play no more than 2 minutes a half.
As someone said earlier “he has no game”.
Jamie is a very good coach. Have some balls, make the change and let’s win our last 4 and get ready for the tourney’s. Staying with this rotation will get you no further than tonight’s result.
By the way the T by Brey worked out really well. Great job by him. After the T, Pitt had 7 of the last 10 fouls on the first half.
Three home losses aren’t great. One was in OT, another was close the last sucked. It happened. The game sucked. But it doesn’t erase the entire season.
Well, Mike Rice, Rick Pitino, Buzz Aldrin or whatever the hell his last name is, Mike Brey, John Beilein, and even Stan Heath beat us twice last year. We haven’t gotten to Lavin yet. And then we get into Izzo, Donovan, Williams, Frey, Stevens, Few, Smart, Krzyzewski, Larranaga, Matta, Turgeon. I could even nominate a Hurley, who beat Jamie on his home court last year with a mighty Wagner team. And I won’t even go near a Miller of any kind. Or say I would kill even for a Howland.
That is quite a handful, if you ask me. And I could go on, if you like.
Again, gave up the Kook Aid a while ago. But drink up, my friend.
Comment by panther94 02.18.13 @ 8:34 pm
Agree panther94. Most I see is the round of 34 and if they have a bad defensive game or a bad shooting game (more likely) we’ll lose in the 1rst round.
Highlite of the game was Kiwi Steve steaking the pass at 3/4′s court dribbling the length of the floor and while two guys were trying to steal the ball from him and one tried to block it, he did,,.,,the ultimate…..much harder than a dunk..,.,..he did a George Gervin, Dr J. finger roll.
This kid needs to be playing in an uptempo offense where those skills exhibited can be utilized, not this …force him into a round hole thing. He’s another Dirk Nowitzki imo, and Dirk doesn’t play with his back to the basket.
Hate to see him, get bottled up in the middle.
At least….try to isolate him on one side of the court for god’s sake. His talents are being wasted. He’ll be gone before they’re ever realized at PITT. When you have a guy that big and that athletic, YOU DON’T FORCE HIM INTO A SYSTEM.
You adapt the system to him….Just ask the Wizard of Westwood !~!!
The committee takes into account how a team is playing down the stretch…..and Pitt is a ship wreck right now. They needed more quality wins and lost their last 2 chances for one by large margins.
I assure you you will be on the edge of your seat hoping Pitt gets in on Selection Sunday. I hope they go NIT myself….Adams needs the extra work.
How do you lose to a team that shoots 38% FG ?
Answer: You shoot 35%
Question: Why does a guy who wasn’t even in the rotation (Wright) a few short games ago play 23 minutes ?? (more than almost 3 of your starters)
Question: When you needed someone (ANYONE) TO SCORE A FEW BASKETS. Why was Durand Johnson not allowed to hoist a few at the hoop ? (he couldn’t have missed much worse than those airballs from 3 and actually might have made a few)
Question: Why with only 4 games left in the regular season are 4 of your 5 starters not even scoring in double digits ??
Question: Why with only 4 games left in the regular season, does this team look so confused on offense? Afraid to shoot open looks ??
Trying to force the ball inside to players who don’t score anyway inside ??
Why do I even care any more ????
He was unavailable due to medical concerns.
I agree with Dan72 about playing Taylor with Adams. Dixon already ruined Taylor’s BB life by making a natural 4 play with his back to the basket for 4 years…might as well give him a few games left to shine. I saw them together a little bit earlier and they did well together.
Probably overeacting, but it took us over half the season to get into the Top 25 and we pissed it away in 3 days.
And while I could justify them losing to Marquette at the Bradly Center, I can’t come up with any reason why they lost to a team DePaul took to Overtime twice and Providence just clobbered. Note….DePaul & Providence play uptempo.
Hint to Coach: You might want to try this style of play if we so happen to play ND in the BE tourney. You see they aren’t that good uptempo. As DePaul took them to OT not once but twice.
Most coaches will look at film on how other teams break down a team and try some things like it…especially against a team that owns you….not Dixon though.
But imo Coach was handed a couple “gifts” in Kiwi Steve and Zeigler. And he just doesn’t know how to use them. These are 2 of the 3 top players he’s EVER had, with Birch being #3.
It is akin to having a couple thoroughbreds and making them into trotters pulling sulkys at The Meadows.
Read up on John Wooden coach…..you adapt your system to the talent at hand.
Even Chryst knows that !
If Patterson has an off night the games already over.
You sound like the guy in Animal House in the last scene. (or Obama or Bernanke now)
All is well…keep calm.
Just when do we start screaming, lol .
Somehow whoever WVcc’s big contributors are, big they big money or big crime, they scare off both the local ragsheets, the national scabs like ESPN and big daddy…….the NCAA.
Obviously Thuggy Bear knows this .
that’s right now that I engage my memory it was Kevin Bacon. From small beginnings……
and btw I’ve been screaming for 30 years now.
Good thing I left Allegheny County, I might have been committed. 
He must have been salivating at the 10 minute mark,…waiting to pounce.
Such a nothing of a little turd…..who graduated from a distinguished university like Northwestern.
He can rant on till eternity about the failures of PITT.
The fat little turd is a journalistic FAILURE.
So who can beat us? Notre Dame, with big beef up front. Marquette and Louisville, who can out-quick our guards. The rest, we can hang with.
Frankly, if one and done is their destiny, I would rather they not go. 20 wins used to get you in, but Syracuse has been left out with 20 wins and they have a far better pedigree than do we.
Don’t blame Cook. Pitt is very questionable right now. I hate to admit it, but I was at the game in person. It was horrid from the coaching to the playing…just horrid.
No thought to go to an extended zone, a half-court press, a full-court press (before 2 mins left) to change up the momentum. And some of the comments that jackagain highlighted in his post are consistent with what I’ve been saying for several years now: In Dixon’s offensive scheme, players become passive, lose their aggression. There are the exceptions, but when you consistently see guys passing up open shots, looking confused and uncertain when they actually do go to the hoop, etc., it reflects on the mentality that’s being imposed on them in practice day after day.
And I really don’t know what it takes to get Zanna’s motor going, but at this point I don’t know how things could not be any better with Sleepy starting at the 4. Zanna contributes nothing against teams with any level of physicality.
I’m. Just. Sick.
He has those kids so brainwashed that a few more passes will lead to a layup that they pass up perfectly good opportunities all the time.
Why he doesn’t bench guys when they won’t feed Adams in the past also baffles me. Adams was really working for position last night and NOBODY wanted to get him the rock. They could have had Cooley in foul trouble in the first 10 minutes.
I just don’t know how many times Patterson, Moore and Wright passed up shots in favor of ill-advised drives and lesser shots.
I know Dixon is uncomfortable recruiting shooters (he’s recruited 1 in all these years — Ramon, and he was 5’10″), but at least tell the guys you have that it’s better to take a wide open jumper than it is to throw up off-balance crap as you careen toward the hoop.
Ridiculous.
By the way, in the latest bracketology on CBSsports.com which was updated this morning, Pitt only fell to a 6 seed. When Pitt wins the final 4 games, then they will be up to probably a 4, and then win a game or two in the BE maybe a 3.
Truer words have not been spoken!!
Many times, to be contested by a couple defenders.
Baffling!!!
The talk about the final four a week ago was as crazy as some of the rage about last nights game.
This is a good team, not a great team or a terrible team.
We have good players, not great or terrible players. On any given night we can play good, great or terrible.
The same as most of the Big East teams.
Suck it up.
I think he must be sincerely considering his future and to be honest that would be to enter the draft since he is playing on a team that is not a top 50 team without him. The pro game is better suited for him and build up his strength and conditioning while getting exposure at the pro level
The only hope is that Young that the analyst say has already developed a low post game could free Adams to play to his strength. However as with with all Dixon teams, the downfall every year there is no 2 guard who can score in double figures (without shoting 30%) and loosen up the defense
Hopefully they will not meet in the BE tourney. Other teams out run the big ND players down the court and eventually the ND players run out of gas.
And worse, we are now in a “here we go again” situation. Another Pitt team that peaks in late January/Early February then stumbles to the finish. One man’s definition of insanity is doing the same things over and over and expecting different results. Jamie needs to figure out why this is happening and CHANGE SOMETHING.
Here are some things I noticed last night:
*Patterson REFUSES to take the open shot when it presents itself early in the shot clock. ND was clearly trying to stop him and he didn’t get a lot of good looks. But when he got them, he would pump fake then dribble into trouble.
*Woodall REFUSES to throw the ball to Adams in the post, even when clearly the play calls for it and he’s open.
*How does Cam Wright get so many minutes last night? He is not a threat to score, at all. ND played off him and begged him to shoot. Pitt really needed someone to make shots.
*Pitt is WASTING its biggest difference maker, Adams. He is basically setting ball screens and playing defense. Even if he doesn’t score, if he gets the ball in the post, the defense has to respond and it’ll open things up for others. He’s a good passer. If Pitt doesn’t start to use him in the offense, he SHOULD leave after this season.
*Moore and Zeigler are not being used in ways that suit their skills.
I hope Jamie spent a sleepless night thinking about what he needs to CHANGE. It is not too late, he has almost a month and 4 very winnable games left.
But I am not optimistic. Jamie has not shown the willingness (or ability or even recognition) to change tactics, strategy or personnel until it is too late.
What’s going to happen: Pitt will keep running the same stuff, using the same rotations and will play a little better. They will win the next four games against sub-elite competition and Jamie will think things are “fixed”. They will win a Wednesday night game in BE then lose on Thursday to a team that they could beat (ie Marquette). In the NCAA they will get an 8/9 seed and lose in the first round (again to a team they should beat).
We have all seen this movie before. Not a big fan of sequels……
Perhaps we can control the boards with Adams and Taylor. If we get outrebounded with our outsider shooters game is over.
The last sentence is a fact so mix it up. Also Moore can not play the 4 he gets crushed on the boards.
Give Adams some help while he is still ambulatory.
wrote the truth about a gutless performance by Pitt and a coach who seemed totally clueless.
Adams, Moore, Patterson, Woodall and Zeigler.
Go inside out, come up with a few sets that REQUIRE the ball to go into the post to Adams.
With Moore, Patterson and Woodall you have spot up shooters who knock down shots, when Adams passes the ball out.
Moore, Zeigler and Patterson can also cut to the hoop and finish. Adams has proven the ability to hit cutters.
Patterson and Zeigler can also handle to the ball and make the extra pass to an open spot up shooter. Woodall and Moore can knock down open shots.
Plus Patterson, Woodall and Zeigler can rebound long misses.
Fundamentals went out the window last night.
From stepping on the three point line while shooting 5 shots that went in (that is 5 more points we didn’t get on made shots)to Patterson and others passing up wide open threes (and yes I agree that is Jamie’s philosophy rubbing off) to Cooney and Kaufman totally dominating the boards ( Adams cannot play the 5 unprotected..it was 2 on 1 all night while Zanna stood and watched or was out of position to no look passes where the recieving player wasn’t ready), to a total break down in defensive discipline where either 4 guys chased the ball or no one chased the ball and we gave up easy drives right down the middle of our d) to running players in and out of the game with no sense of timing, to what seemed like mass confusion on and off the court (I know Jamie was in a state of shock by all this but you still have to think and coach rationally), to offensive players standing still waiting for the ball and finally to defensive players moving their feet at the wrong time (never ever move your feet when you are set to take a charge! Zanna did it twice Moore once/ Woodall 2x) refs call it a block every time).
Other than Nova 09 I think that was our worst loss ever on national tv and to a hated rival.
I do not know how Jamie or this team recovers from this loss. Think we are in big trouble vs the Johnnies unless Coach Dixon finds help at the 4.
Not sure he can defend at all on the perimeter, but they have to do something to help Adams on the boards. It certainly would have helped last night.
Also, you know the team could have used Durand Johnson last night. Durand Johnson forces Lamar to be better. Plus, could have really used Durand Johnson’s shot last night. That’s why the whole 10 man rotation is needed.
“it’s something we’re well aware of,” coach Jamie Dixon said. “It’s not for a lack of effort. He was getting big numbers for us early. He’s still going to the glass and playing hard. He doesn’t have that same rhythm. It’s not for a lack of effort. He’s playing hard in practice and in games.”
hey jamie, this ain’t intramurals. it’s not youth soccer where every player gets a pat on the head and a certificate of participation! zanna is performing at the 4 at a level pitt needs to be successful. make a change!
@boubacar – nothing wrong with that sequel..because it is a huge step from where they ended up last year and probably considering the players where they belong.
@WLAT and The Big Beat..you must be young..you never saw Pitt when Ralph Williard was coach? Not even close to worst ever. I would say perhaps most disappointing though in the Dixon/Howland era.
Note on Patterson..agree with all those who said he has to start taking those open 3′s..he’s the guy who needed to step up last night.
are hanging their heads in shame.
In short…damn. What an awful and embarrassing performance. I knew when it was 19-3 and should have been 35-3 that we were in trouble. 5 in a row to ND, a team that I think it is safe to say has consistently less overall talent and certainly less depth than Pitt. Mike Bray may not be a better coach than Jamie Dixon, but he certainly is head to head, and he proved it again last night.
This team really fooled me. I was convinced they had vastly improved and had gained enough confidence and chemistry to carry them through the rest of the year. How do you compare the dysfunctional team from last night to the one that dissected Syracuse with surgical precision 16 days prior?
Too many issues to list from last night, but I think one of this team’s biggest overall shortcomings is lack of a post player who can get a couple dirty, muscle baskets when outside shots aren’t falling, and who put a body on the other team’s big man on the defensive end. A banger to complement Adams. As posted ad nauseum on here, that should be the 4 spot. That guy just isn’t on this team.
They can still win their last four, but I think my expectations for this team to make any kind of post-season run are greatly diminished.
With the way the Tarheel’s Network radio show called “This week in the ACC” has been bashing ACC football all season, as I blogged a month or so ago, I wouldn’t be surprised at all.
Even dissed their 4-2 record in Bowl Season which was pretty good for the ACC. Something is up cause GT’s win over USC was a very good win, yet the radio show made lite of it.
Seemed to me they were setting the stage for a possible exit.
