Pitt played like garbage against Tenn. They shot 40% to Tenn's 60+% and Sotty Hopson had 30 points. Their man and help defense looked real weak and very lazy. Hopson was splitting double teams and getting to the rack. Goins scored 20 or so points making 10 FT's by driving to the rim. That is Kemba Walker's game, if they don't stop his drive, they are done. All of that being said, I gotta think Dixon has these guys ready. He's been playing 11 guys to see what he's got (even in the Tenn game) and now he's starting to cut the rotation down and lean on his big players (Wannamaker, Gibbs, Brown who has been playing really well offensively recently and McGhee underneath).
No Big East team has been better in the Big East the last 10 years (109-41), Pitt is excellent at home overall since the Pete opened in 2002 (141-11) against the Big East (57-10) AND AGAINST TOP 5 TEAMS WHERE THEY ARE 7-0 ALL-TIME. The Tenn game was at the Consul Energy Center (Penguins new arena) and it will be a different atmosphere @ home. I'm just really hoping the students are making the trip back through the storm from Xmas break to rock the Pete.
i'm taking pitt after everyone slams uconn and the line inevitably goes down to 5.5ish.
Pitt played like garbage against Tenn. They shot 40% to Tenn's 60+% and Sotty Hopson had 30 points. Their man and help defense looked real weak and very lazy. Hopson was splitting double teams and getting to the rack. Goins scored 20 or so points making 10 FT's by driving to the rim. That is Kemba Walker's game, if they don't stop his drive, they are done. All of that being said, I gotta think Dixon has these guys ready. He's been playing 11 guys to see what he's got (even in the Tenn game) and now he's starting to cut the rotation down and lean on his big players (Wannamaker, Gibbs, Brown who has been playing really well offensively recently and McGhee underneath).
No Big East team has been better in the Big East the last 10 years (109-41), Pitt is excellent at home overall since the Pete opened in 2002 (141-11) against the Big East (57-10) AND AGAINST TOP 5 TEAMS WHERE THEY ARE 7-0 ALL-TIME. The Tenn game was at the Consul Energy Center (Penguins new arena) and it will be a different atmosphere @ home. I'm just really hoping the students are making the trip back through the storm from Xmas break to rock the Pete.
i'm taking pitt after everyone slams uconn and the line inevitably goes down to 5.5ish.
Nobody seems concerned that Pitt has played a Majority cupcake schedule and the 1st Big Conference Ranked team they played dominated them from the Opening tip?
Nobody seems concerned that Pitt has played a Majority cupcake schedule and the 1st Big Conference Ranked team they played dominated them from the Opening tip?
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