Monday, November 26, 2012

Triple Double, Toil and Trouble

Congrats to Jeff Withey on his second straight alpha dog performance vs. San Jose St. -- that rare college triple double. It's a good thing he's playing like an All-American right now, because we haven't had any other consistent performers.

Scott's been pushing a sort-of quarterback controversy between EJ and Tharpe. Naadir didn't do himself any favors in the San Jose St. game, with his barrage of turnovers, bad shots, and defensive lapses. Elijah hit the jumper that broke us out of our terrible slump at the end, but overall he wasn't that great either. A strong quarterback wouldn't have allowed us to go to sleep offensively for 10 minutes.

This team needs more fire and personality in the backcourt. Jeff can't do it all. Self keeps trying to incite Elijah with his comments to the media, but so far, he seems content to stay on the margins rather than taking control.

Come on, EJ. If not now, when? If not you, who?

9 comments:

  1. OK, I had been wondering why Scott wasn't dividing his posts into paragraphs. Now I see that it wasn't his fault. What's the deal, Blogger 2.0?

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  2. Hmm... Let me see if I can fix the ¶ thing, and then I'll come back to complain about the end of that game last night...

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    1. Weird... everything looks okay, and then it doesn't. I'll try to keep an eye out and/or look for a permanent fix; in the meantime, I hope I broke your text where you wanted it broken, DGL. Nice to see you back on the blog, btw!

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    2. Damn, that was some clairvoyant paragraph-breaking, Yancy. It's like you can see into my soul. Thanks.

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  3. All right, I know it's a little risky to agree with Keegan around here, but he's right to highlight this pretty funny quote from Self:

    “I’ve seen bad offense before — third-and-fourth-grade YMCA basketball with no good ball reversal and bad ball-handling,” Self said. “Our offense surpassed that tonight the last 12 minutes of the game.”

    (What is going on with the formatting on here lately?? Anyway...)

    And if we end up with a season full of uneven play from young stars, surprisingly close wins, and funny press conferences, well, I think I can live with that.

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    1. I was also going to give Keegan credit for a great observation in his player rankings, but then I realized Jesse Newell is doing those this season. Anyway, here it is:

      "Think about this: When SJSU put up one of its 44 two-point attempts Monday night, that shot had just as good of a chance of being blocked by Withey (12 instances) as it did of going in the basket (12 instances)."

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    2. That's funny--I'd stopped reading those rankings because I got a little tired of their former author. So, thanks for the great quote _and_ for putting them back on the reading list!

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  4. I missed the SJSU game, but it sounds like everything was pretty much status quo. Withey solid. A couple of spectacular plays by Mclemore/ and /or Traylor, and the backcourt struggled.

    Is that right?

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  5. BTW, this may be the greatest blog post title in our history. Truly Deron, those journalism school loans were well worth it. :)

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