Once Cuse got their 6th foul called on then in the second half. Not another whistle on them.
Gillespie and Ament were 1-6 but a shot in front of the bench from the corner is what a player wants. He woulda shot it if he was open off the pick and we were crashing the boards. He instructed them to crash coming out of the timeout so I think he expected to shoot or drive and shoot but made the right play.I was thinking that they might have drawn up a 3-point look. It was awfully crowded around the rim. Looked like SU was expecting Carey to get the attempt.
Gillespie and Ament were 1-6 but a shot in front of the bench from the corner is what a player wants. He woulda shot it if he was open off the pick and we were crashing the boards. He instructed them to crash coming out of the timeout so I think he expected to shoot or drive and shoot but made the right play.
Good D. Hands were straight up by defenders from what I saw. Refs won’t blow the whistle usually - esp for the away team unless its At TBA -I loved how we went to our hot hand down low with Cary , but I didn’t understand the play call. He had like 4 people in him down low. How did he not get fouled too?
Carey had Okpara open for the lob...a play they have executed several times...but not sure I'd trust Okpara to finish it the way he played, tonight. He gave us next to nothing, sadly.Pass to Carey was behind Carey such that he had to step away from the basket to get the ball not toward the basket, defense collapsed on him, bad angle not close enough to dunk it, offense was plagued by too much dribbling and standing around, no purpose on offense, physical game down low on defense, perimeter defense was a little bit iffy, lots of wide open 3 point baskets for Syracuse
I’ve seen a lot of games end on made baskets by players that couldn’t throw the ball in the ocean all night and lost when players that lit it up all night missing open looks.
True but what do you think was the right play? They had been expecting Carey most of the night and he still killed them very efficiently. Nobody other than Carey and Abram had shot well all night and it was likely to draw contact, though I did not expect it. Cuse had been getting the benefit of the doubt more often than not for much of the game.
They certainly committed more than 6 fouls in the second half.
