Wednesday, December 1, 2010

MD - PSU Comments


I am not sure if:

a. PSU is the worst team in major division college basketball.
b. MD just played its best defensive game in the GW era.

I think both could be right.

- PSU was 14 for 68 from the floor (21%)
- PSU was 3 for 27 from distance (11%)
- PSU had six assists and 12 turnovers
- MD had 17 turn-overs and was only 12 for 21 at the line and still won 62 - 39.
- MD's second-best player (Tucker) had zero points.

Someone named Taran Buie was 0 for 9 in thirteen minutes; at some point, you need to dial it down Taran.

Taking away Battle's 7 for 21 masterpiece, the rest of the team was 7 for 47 (15%).

Fifteen percent. I didn't think that was possible for a group of eight D1 players.

What else did we learn tonight?

- Stoglin has a very nice handle on the ball. He is money at the line. He will be playing at the ends of games. Bowie still struggles to bring the ball up court against pressure.

- MD is a significantly better defensive team than last year. Hayes and Vasquez didn't scare many teams on defense. I don't think this year's team has a defensive weak spot; although, they can improve on the defensive glass.

- Padgett played his best game of the year. Very active.

- Williams is still a circus at the FT line. 3 for 9 tonight. Other than that, he was awesome tonight. He is starting to use the rim inside to avoid getting his shot blocked; very Baxter-like in that regard.

- The announcer informed us that Williams was the first all Freshman ACC player since "Jeff" Blake. I thought he was a QB for East Carolina. Steve Blake would disagree with her.

- Gregory is solid. He is showing better range this year on his line-drive jumper that seems to hit the bottom of the net more often than not. He also has surprising throw-down in traffic ability.

- MD is essentially eight deep. Weijs will play some; not much. What happened to Parker? This guy was #42 overall out of HS last year.

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