The Chris Mullin era at St. John's...DOA??

[49r]

St. John's opens Chris Mullin era with 32-point exhibition loss - ESPN.com

 

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/14056003/st-john-opens-chris-mullin-era-90-58-exhibition-loss-division-ii-st-thomas-aquinas

 

 

"You have to give the other team a lot of credit," Mullin said. "They played hard, they played together and aggressive. This will be a tremendous teaching tool. A lot of our guys have not played in a college basketball game, and we tried to emulate that in practice and the scrimmage, but it's different. We have to learn from this."

 

[AuroranHusker]

Well, allrighty, then....

[trickey]

Interesting article. Certainly, St. John's has a far way to go if they lose to Division II St. Thomas Aquinas at home by this amount.

 

There was one thing that caught my attention while i wonder how we could/should play differently his season. This quote from the coach of St Thomas about pressing for most of the game while St. John's struggled with it made me consider.

(I wonder whether we could use the press to our advantage in some situations, though I am not suggesting full time, as their coach's below description of his players could fit our team this year).

 

"That's how we play. That's our system," Anderson said. "We press like that for 40 minutes, so part of that's why we are in really good shape. ... We have a lot interchangeable parts, lots of different guys playing different positions. I thought the pressure was great."

 

With all our zucchini--long, lean and underrated players that could now go 10 deep, could they give some teams a problem with an occasional X minutes of hell routine?

 

After this team gets established and in a groove, I'd like to see this, at least as an effort to get back in a game when we are down late.

Does anybody have an opinion on whether this would work with this team?

[AuroranHusker]

Interesting article. Certainly, St. John's has a far way to go if they lose to Division II St. Thomas Aquinas at home by this amount.

 

There was one thing that caught my attention while i wonder how we could/should play differently his season. This quote from the coach of St Thomas about pressing for most of the game while St. John's struggled with it made me consider.

(I wonder whether we could use the press to our advantage in some situations, though I am not suggesting full time, as their coach's below description of his players could fit our team this year).

 

"That's how we play. That's our system," Anderson said. "We press like that for 40 minutes, so part of that's why we are in really good shape. ... We have a lot interchangeable parts, lots of different guys playing different positions. I thought the pressure was great."

 

With all our zucchini--long, lean and underrated players that could now go 10 deep, could they give some teams a problem with an occasional X minutes of hell routine?

 

After this team gets established and in a groove, I'd like to see this, at least as an effort to get back in a game when we are down late.

Does anybody have an opinion on whether this would work with this team?

 

 

I think, in a pinch, that could be a way to get back into a ballgame late. Not sure they could sustain that type of effort for much longer than that, though. Would be worth a shot if they had to.