HU76 wrote:
Talley averages 16 a game and scored 37. Pemberton averages 16 a game and scored 4. There’s your game.
It's not that simple with Pemberton because they more than made up for his -12 vs. his average in other places.
Ray averages 7 and had 16.
Buie averages 6 and had 20.
As a team, they average 79 and scored 88.
In contrast, UNCW averages 80 and scored 93.
That's Hofstra +9 vs. their average as a team (so no problem there), but UNCW +13 (that's a big problem on D).
The difference between those two nets: +4 for UNCW in a 5-point game. THERE'S your game.
Off game by Pemberton Eli for sure, but they lost this one letting Talley go WAY above his average (+21, as you said).
That, and the FTs which I knew all year would come back to bite them in the tourney, and they did.
HU76 wrote:
You have to give Talley some credit. He shot over 50% from the floor and 50% from three. That’s not all on the defense. That’s a senior stepping up.
Agree with this, with the caveat that I buy it for one half but not the other. First half, it happens. A good player steps up, it can snowball quickly, especially if he's making 3s like Talley was doing. So you live with it, especially when you're still up 8 at the half.
But if you're a good coaching staff and if you are aware as players defensively, you just saw what he did to you with 19 of their 40 first-half points. So you don't key on him and force the ball out of his hands? You instead allow him to do virtually the same thing in the second half, with 18 MORE points, until he ends your season? Particularly in a game of that magnitude? That part is inexcusable, especially when you're playing for a title.
HU76 wrote:
What I don’t understand is why with Cacok on the bench the guards didn’t go to the basket more and didn’t really get Rok involved in the offense. Instead, they settled for shooting 35 threes. Yes, it’s a game they should have won but everyone had to step up.
Totally agree with this. They hit 14 (40%) of those 3s, which is like 60% from 2, so I can't complain too much. But I said all year... Rok is efficient, gotta get him a few more shots. So especially when Eli is 1/9, and even JWF was only a mediocre 10/23... that's 11/32... can't get just 5 or 6 of those Rok's way instead? I actually asked Joe about this after the regular season finale vs. Towson. I said, "He leads the league in FG%. Do you feel like you need to get him 10-11 shots instead of just 5-6?" He said not really. But last night, while the two top guards went 11/32, Rok went a perfect 5/5.
HU76 wrote:
Still a solid season. If you want to judge the coaches, let’s see what they do about replacing Rok so that all of these great guards don’t go to waste next year. They need to find another JC transfer like Uter. And as far as playing in the CBI to get Rok his rebounds, didn’t they do something similar for Charles? I don’t see anything wrong with it. Let them play if they want to.
I bolded your last sentence above because that's what this should be about. I think they did do something similar with Charles (don't quite recall), but as you said, if THEY WANT to play. Who cares what WE want? It was THEIR season. THEY played and coached. If they want to play, they should. Really, what's the harm? 5, 10 years from now, if Rok still has that record, we'll remember that, not playing an extra game.
