Game on the line he has to be the one with the ball in his hands. Not Harper dribbling the time away 25-30 feet from the basket. I didnt really see it unfold but were they playing a hard ball denial on Geo? Or was he not forcefuuly goung to get it? Thats where being out of timeouts really hurt. And the coach has to make sure that its him that gets the ball in a one on one. And he only gives it up if they come at him with a double team.
It has to be Geo
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unfortunately no timeouts but in the timeout that Chambers called they had to know that Geo would be swarmed..so it didnt seem like they handled that well at all
if the team didnt play like absolute crap in the first half there would be timeouts
if the team didnt play like absolute crap in the first half there would be timeouts
Like Geo being trapped in the corner that wasted a TO
It was time to live or die by geo. Not stony brook guy on a contested 3 . Which I don’t blame him for . He had to shoot it after the other guys didn’t seem to want the ball
Not sure what you are referring to. He got the ball of course , got double teamed, gave to Harper who had a path but gave it to Yaboah. Nobody went to the rim. Not Harper, not Geo. And if course the star of the game wasn't there.
Guys. Watch the play. Geo has the ball and dribbles into a bad spot where he is aggressively double teamed. Then we basically didn’t get a good shot up becusse they were trying to get him the ball back. If Geo did get it back it would’ve been with little time and a very poor position under heavy defensive pressure
Not his fault he got the ball there in that situation. Best shot at that point. We shouldn't have been in that situation.
Agree. . I edited my post after that . Don’t blame him for the shot , he had to shoot it. Sadly, it’s what he may he remembered for now at Rutgers
Yeboah, our best shooter, had an open look. Penn State could've or shoud've fouled Geo or Ron twice since they had two fouls to give rather than allowing Geo to shoot. Given that they could afford to foul twice, the last shot was not a bad one. We lost it by doing the only thing we couldn't do - give up a three to Penn State when a two or a foul still would've given us the ball and a shot to win or go to OT.
I swear our fans dont watch the games or have no clue what's going on out there. GEO HAD THE BALL. Everyone knows he was going to have the ball. Chambers had his team prepared for it and they ran a double team at him. He has to pass it there
Not saying you're right or wrong, but to call Yeboah a Stonybrook player as if he isn't any good is really not fair. He's been a more valuable player to RU this year than Geo, and I don't think too many would dispute that. We were playing well while Geo was out. Without Yeboah this is a10-12 win team tops.
Uh, I played competitive BB and coached BB. I know what I'm talking about. I am just still so pissed off at the ending that I may not be thinking straight.
if Geo is doubled and they have two guys shadowing Myles for the rebound we have open players somewhere
Geo is the guy you want at the end game..good lord he hit that jumper to give RU the lead..he is exactly who you want and that is why Chambers denied him
Did you read my thread? I destroyed my LED TV in the family room. My wife is away on business and I need to replace it before she gets home.
On this team? Sure.
I just think he’s better off ball where he can come off a screen and have space for an open J. The shots he takes when he’s in iso are incredibly low percentage shots.
He has been okay, definitely our best option. But the looks he gets are not good.
He’s not a take over the game kind of guy (yes I know he did it vs lowly northwestern).
God I miss Corey Sanders.
Geo is way better with the ball his hands vs. coming off the ball and it’s not even close.
Agree Yeboah has been great for us . But most likely this was a loss for the ages . We will remember the miss here more than his other games . It’s just the way it is
Somebody should have tried that because we only needed a basket to go ahead. We just don't finish real well if it's not a dunk. Miles being in at that point doesn't help either, we needed someone capable of shooting. Too bad we couldn't finish it off.
We got bailed out by uncharacteristic poor PSU foul shooting too to keep us hanging around. We also probably made the most bank shots I’ve ever seen. It was a very close loss but let’s not make no mistake on PSU being the better team overall.
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If we had a timeout, that also would've given Chambers a chance to properly coach his players to give the 2 fouls they had to give. After the Penn State three, Chambers actually tried to call a timeout but he froze initially and then was late getting to the officials.
someone burned all the timeouts including calling a timeout after we MADE a basket at the 2 min mark.
Our standard play for geo is to have geo dribble for a few seconds. Then Ron and Myles set a screen up high and then back off. When Ron And Myles defenders went up it seems like PSU took a chance and tried to trap Geo. I think the first team thats tried it yet? It screwed up our rythym because it seemed like we had no plan B. Smart play defensively but I think well be prepared next time. 2 passes and well have an easy shot.
Every team should do this to us honestly. Myles is zero threat 20+ feet away from the basket and they set the screen so high he cant slip it for an easy dunk. There is no point to guard him out there at all just double Geo since literally the only thing we do is let him go one on one as our last second play.
Need to use the 1-4 instead so that Myles man is too far away to double so easily
We got the ball with 28 seconds left and were unable to run a play.
I get that we had no TO so Pike couldn't draw up some awesome play (I'm having visions of Henry Winkler in The Waterboy) but just tell them to run something. Anything.
It was like they literally didn't have a single offensive play they could run to get an open shot.
I get that we had no TO so Pike couldn't draw up some awesome play (I'm having visions of Henry Winkler in The Waterboy) but just tell them to run something. Anything.
It was like they literally didn't have a single offensive play they could run to get an open shot.
Pikell should have told then to go straight to the hoop we ran the clock down again Pikell has to know this scenario in the previous time out if we miss we still have time to foul and get the ball back and get another shot off
The issue was they gave it to him way too soon and he got stuck. Why? Because we didn't have the damn TO so they could have inbounded from mid-court and done the usual stuff. It should have went to somebody else and then Geo.
I'm certainly in the group that thinks (just like our other programs..we are clueless on the O side of things). ! trick pony show at the end.
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Read your post tomorrow when you’re less emotional and have an opportunity to watch the last 30 seconds again. Baker was doubled and HAD to give up the ball. Where he was on the court and given the aggressive D, that had turnover written all over it. He was fortunate to get it to RHJ.
PS - glad you weren’t my coach :Wink: