With all the cancelations news and discussions have been slow here.
I am starting this thread to discuss strategy issues anyone wants to comment on in their time watching the Hall.
Go back as far as you want.
Here's mine, and it shows that even the best leave themselves open to question.
In the early years of PJ the Hall along with UConn were the dregs of the conference. St John's, especially in the year this game was played was elite. The Hall was playing the Redmen on their campus and were probably 15 or more points the underdog. But shockingly in this game it went down to the wire. In fact overtime.
Here's where I though PJ coached his worse 10 minutes at the Hall ever. And IMO it wasn't close.
The Johnnies had 7 foot Bill Wennington jumping center. The Pirates had no one taller than 6-5 in the middle. Meaning SHU was never going to get an opening tip and this OT was no different.
Here's where at first I was thrilled. St John's, there was no shot clock back then, did not attack instead just holding the ball. So SHU went back into a zone as the clock just ticked away. Prefect I thought. Shorten the game as we were greatly overmatched in talent. I figured, wrongly, that JP would come out of the zone around the 1 minute mark and try and force SJU into a shot. But he didn't. He simply let St John's milk the clock and take the last shot. A shot they missed and the game went to double O/T.
Again, the exact same thing happened with one change. St John's scored at the buzzer and the Pirates lost by 2.
I have no idea what Carleisimo was thinking other than he wanted to lose a close game. He allowed SJU to simply hold the ball. twice, while having his players settle back into a zone 20 feet from the ball.
Thoughts?
I am starting this thread to discuss strategy issues anyone wants to comment on in their time watching the Hall.
Go back as far as you want.
Here's mine, and it shows that even the best leave themselves open to question.
In the early years of PJ the Hall along with UConn were the dregs of the conference. St John's, especially in the year this game was played was elite. The Hall was playing the Redmen on their campus and were probably 15 or more points the underdog. But shockingly in this game it went down to the wire. In fact overtime.
Here's where I though PJ coached his worse 10 minutes at the Hall ever. And IMO it wasn't close.
The Johnnies had 7 foot Bill Wennington jumping center. The Pirates had no one taller than 6-5 in the middle. Meaning SHU was never going to get an opening tip and this OT was no different.
Here's where at first I was thrilled. St John's, there was no shot clock back then, did not attack instead just holding the ball. So SHU went back into a zone as the clock just ticked away. Prefect I thought. Shorten the game as we were greatly overmatched in talent. I figured, wrongly, that JP would come out of the zone around the 1 minute mark and try and force SJU into a shot. But he didn't. He simply let St John's milk the clock and take the last shot. A shot they missed and the game went to double O/T.
Again, the exact same thing happened with one change. St John's scored at the buzzer and the Pirates lost by 2.
I have no idea what Carleisimo was thinking other than he wanted to lose a close game. He allowed SJU to simply hold the ball. twice, while having his players settle back into a zone 20 feet from the ball.
Thoughts?
