Here is the Gameday Thread for today’s Pitt Basketball game. Today we play the North Carolina Tarheels at home at 7:00 pm.
Following are some websites that might help you all get ready to cheer the team onto a win. These can be used for in-game commenting research also.
Pitt Basketball 2020-21 Schedule
Pitt Basketball 2020-21 Roster
Here are some sites for info on our opponents:
ACC Basketball 2020-21 Standings (w/ links to team pages)
Sports-Reference.com Pitt Homepage (current & historical)
I’ll try to keep these threads updated as far as actual days and opponents are jerked around due to C-19 re-scheduling. If you see something wrong with any posts just email me at rkohberger@gmail.com and I’ll try to fix it as soon as possible.
HAIL TO PITT!!
Pitt is now a 4 pt underdog in Vegas and I know why. UNC leads the NCAA in rebounding and post scoring. They have three players under the basket, 6’10 , 6’11 and 7’2. They are muscular and athletic and do the majority of scoring for UNC. To defend them, Pitt has Brown and Coulibaly. Ugh
UNC loves to get out and run and plays fast break basketball every time they can because they own the boards. UNC s biggest weakness is their turnover rate. Worst in ACC. UNC is 10-5 and is on a roll winning their last five. They will try to avenge 2 Pitt losses last year. I do NOT like Pitt’s chances tonight. This is a very bad matchup for Pitt. We better be hitting our threes. I would start Sibande at the 1 or 2. H2P
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If Pitt shots the 3 poorly they will lose tonight.
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Thanks Reed, and GO PITT!
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Need your link ! Thank you
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Whodathunkit? Kentucky is 5-9 and a 7 point dog to Alabama tonight, with losses to Georgia Tech, Notre Dame, North Carolina and Louisville. Crazy times.
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UNC has six players 6’10” or taller (one is 7’1” and four are 6’11”).
Capel better have brought the kitchen sink.
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I live in Comcast Hel- Does anybody have a working link?
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I too in Comcast hell…link Jackagain?
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Game link:
http://cdn.livetv382.me/webplayer.php?t=ifr&c=1530366&lang=en&eid=1026783&lid=1530366&ci=428&si=3
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Brown is in.
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My computer blocked the link because of a malware threat!
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Open it anyway and have your ad blockers working 😉
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Need to shot 80%+ from the FT line to win this.
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We can’t hit the bunny shots. Might get out of hand quickly.
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Tried the link. Got gambling and porn sites…so, see ya after the game!
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Close the pop-ups and the game link should be on a separate window.
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those sites are a gamble from what my friends say…..
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Bless you Jackagain. Working great here but don’t like what I see from Pitt so far.
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The link is working for me too.
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This sucks because we have ACC for FB on Fios.
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Champagne looks highly perturbed.
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Yeah Farmer. Who would believe Alabama is top 10…..in basketball. Actually they have been coming on strong. Alabama also started a D1 Hockey program. Commitment to excellence in athletics, is a great commitment.
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They need to consistently score when NC gives the ball away.
Have to be in position for long rebounds.
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Does Pitt have lacrosse?
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UNC overplaying passing lanes. Pitt acts like they’ve never seen it before. Think back door cuts guys!
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Link now working LOL
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Brown and Coulibaly in together.
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Can’t get link. You all bring it home.
Capel will have zero rebounds. Tex predicted he would rebound this game. lol with tex! 🙂
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Xman w 3 TOS. Killing us.
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CBS Sports shows us with 5 TO’s on five different Pitt players. None of them is X.
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Bacot looks like a football stud.
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Bad part of playing a zone is rebounding which Pitt is getting killed. Even in man Pitt is just not boxing out. UNC playing man but doubling Champ at every opportunity.
Pitt looks lost at both ends. Ugh
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Who is the announcer other than Hillgrove?
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X-man always penetrates on the wrong side of the screen.
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97.5 The fan broadcast is about 45 seconds delayed.
Narduzzi’s fault.
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Curtis Aiken is the color announcer Reed.
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Thanks
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No foul?
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Pitt getting killed on the boards….
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Getting outplayed…
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Poor first half – down by 8 with very sloppy play, poor shooting and many missed bunnies.
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You can’t teach height but when you get an offensive rebound touch you need to convert.[
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Too much size and athleticism. You know you are in trouble when you have to play our two bigs at the same time. really missing Hugely tonight.
Plus we got the announcer that never shuts up again.
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That announcer drove me absolutely nuts! Not only doesn’t he shut up but it’s usually about topics other than the game itself. At one point he was rambling on about Louisville women’s basketball. Are you serious. STFU!
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UNC killing Pitt on put backs. Just a much more talented team than Pitt. If I’m Capel, I tell the next player who doesn’t run the offense thru Champ is sitting down! Only chance Pitt has.
And not much of one at that.
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Hard to box out three athletic giants that are coming at you from all angles.
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Have to think that Hugley would be some help here. Not so much for depth since we have no foul trouble. But his big body might fare better against the Heels bigs.
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He takes up more space underneath and they wouldn’t push him around as much.
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He could drive the get-away-car for sure.
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Who was Pitt’s last McDonald’s All-American?
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What are “bunnies”?
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Easy put backs
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and lay-ups
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Are we entering the February slump earlier?
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With ND sitting in the on deck circle this Saturday.
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Did they just give Champ a three? I think we just picked up a point.
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Sports are about match-ups, UNC has elite inside players that will play at the next level.
Coulibaly and Brown won’t cut it against these guys nor will Champ and Toney when they go inside.
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Unless we get some hot outside shooting (yeah right) probably a long night.
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That’s a silly name…”put-back” is perfectly fine.
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I gotta say down only 8 with x and toney playing as bad as they did makes me think there is a chance. We could use big John tonight.
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Amazed it’s this close. Refs letting em play. Pitt’s only chance is to pick up the speed of the game. If Pitt just trades baskets, they’ll lose by 20.
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If the refs let em play, we get pushed around. If they start calling fouls, we have no depth. Pick your poison.
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Pitt recruiting mysteries– football can’t find tight ends and basketball can’t find bigs.
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“Teardrop”???
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Turned the sound down while we did a zoom meeting. Might just leave it down.
Can’t believe we’re not in a deeper hole.
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Now they are calling fouls. Three on Kareem, two on Champ, two on X.
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“Bunnies” makes it apparent that the shot should have been made easily because it is up close. Put back is not nearly as enjoyable to say.
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How about teardrop?
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Teardrop : A runner or a floater. Over the top of a taller defender usually.
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And just like that, this game is getting out of control.
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Afraid this is over.
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Hillgrove: “It’s Big to Big…here is a teardrop…missed – oh no! Missed the Bunnie.”
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Sounds like Pitt is showboating and sloppy.
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Pitt is turning this into a jumping contest. Losing every time. Have to get their buts into defenders and push them back.
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“Babyhook”? This is killing me.
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This is going to be 2 teams in a row shooting around 50% on us. Inside or outside, makes no difference…
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So much for the Max Amadasun experiment.
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Unacceptable relying on Brown in year three of this regime. He is so bad but goes to class and is a positive reflection of the Mission Statement. I prefer a guy who can rebound and puts school a far second.
Year five is the earliest we can expect capable big man play. Tough to swallow.
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Amazing that Pitt is hanging in there.
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We’re down 16…
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Ha!
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Wake played NC much tougher and on the road. So much for Pitt arriving after beating Duke. Weaknesses everywhere on this team.
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Oh, my, my feed must be behind….Pitt was only down 4 when I posted that!
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Wow we look like our guys have bricks on their feet. S. L. O. W.
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Ok, I think I’ll skip the slide….
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Hillgrove just said “Things don’t look good for the Panthers.”
Firm grasp of the obvious.
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I wish I has a dollar for every time he’s said that in his career…
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Pitt needs rob launch some 3s. Nothing no to lose. No way we can just trade baskets.
This is why you cannot lose to Wake !! A team you beat 9-10 x
UNC just a much better team.
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Yeah, I’m thinking of watching another episode of “The Handmaiden’s Tale”. If I’m going to be depressed I might as well be entertained and surprised about the outcome.
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Toney and Johnson did not show up ready tonight – sad cause both are from the south.
The boat race is on…
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Champs is 4-4 for threes.
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not sure why everyone is complaining…i started watching at neighbors house when it was 66-50. Seems pretty good at 68-59….femi looks good.
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Got to keep Kareem out of foul trouble the rest of the way.
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Champ needs 1 more RB for another double-double.
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Hillgrove is actually a good BB color man when he’s just calling the game without getting cutsy. Sets where the ball is on court pretty well.
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Champ has four fouls?
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I don’t think these announcers know that Champ has 4 fouls and that is why he is backing off.
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Reed: A baby hook is kinda what it sounds like. Kareem Abdul Jabbar shot a sky hook. Baby hook would be a smaller version of that.
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Thanks…
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Another garbage game for X-man
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He’s maddening to watch, isn’t he Jackagain?
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Anyone have any idea why Jeffress hasn’t been playing? I saw someone on the PIV mention Covid, but never read or saw that mentioned anywhere else.
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Him and Collier have been MIA…since Hughley GTA.
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Goodnight guys!
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Meanwhile 3-8 St. Francis is in OT against 2-8 Fairleigh Dickinson…..and losing.
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…at home no less.
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10 point loss.
Listening to the game we sound very streaky and panicky. Did we even set up any plays in the 2nd half at all? Capel has to teach these kids being behind by 6 or 8 points isn’t time to score as quickly as possible.
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X-man plays street ball and does what he wants….that’s the problem. And Capel thinks it’s great too…
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Bingo, Reed. We have a couple of guys who can shoot 3s (albeit streaky) and we never run picks or screens for them.
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Coach? You want Capel to coach?
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Am I the only one who would rather see Odukale in there?
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you might look to an in game comment during the last two games. Femi looks good and under control. Also fiery as he got into it with a unc player tonight. He is more of a floor general in his brief sample size in my opinion.
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Let me get this right. This Pitt Team is really good leaning toward “great?”
Hilarious stuff.
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Similar to after week 3 of football.
Pitt is a hilarious school when it comes to the Front Porch.
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Both Jeffress and Collier haven’t played since the Hughley story broke. Both were involved but did no wrong, but at Pitt that doesn’t matter. My confidence isn’t high on this staff at the moment.
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Noah has 8 points in 75 minutes of play. He scored 4 points in 27 minutes against L’Ville and hasn’t been seen since. He’s a freshman.
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Pitt Lady Panthers beating Clemson 77-66 on ACCN Extra right now.
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For anyone who missed it, posted numerous times one year ago that Capel ONLY wins when he has SUPERIOR talent.
Believe it. Not complicated.
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That makes him like 99% of all the other coaches on the planet….
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Except when playing St. Francis or Wake Forest !
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We shot 40% from the 3 and still lost by 10 because UNC shot 52.5 from the floor. Champ got that 10th RB though to go 23-10.
https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/gametracker/live/NCAAB_20210126_UNC@PITT/
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Too bad Capel couldn’t land both of them….
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OT, AJ Davis to return…
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Is that a god thing Fran? IDK.
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I was surprised he was returning…
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Adomitis, the long-snapper not the medical condition, is returning too! Always good to have a good long-snapper back…
I’ll be disappointed if AJ sees the field much next season. We need some quicks!!
Go Pitt.
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Pitt women won at Clemson sweeping the two games this season. Must be the orange unis…😊
Clemson is now 9-6; Pitt is 4-4.
Key players were Freshman Liatu King, who was 7 for 11, while Soph transfer Destiny Strothers was 6 for 8. Soph. Post player Rita is showing improvement at the offensive end shooting 4-6.
There’s a striking parallel between the play of Soph. PG Day Harris and the X-Man. Day has great energy and talent, but too often plays out-of-control. Pitt lost their previous game to Miami by 4 points because of Day’s reckless play. When she’s good, she’s pretty awesome. The women hadn’t played for a month before the Miami game, so Day seemed to be especially rev-ed-up that game…
Go Pitt.
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Is it back to reality now with Pitt basketball on the POV? Clearly the absence of the 3 players since the car jacking is not helping this team. And I don’t expect it to for the remainder of the season. All 3 may eventually transfer out before this saga ends IMO.
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Yes, but only 2 of the three will probably get a chance to play basketball anytime soon – Jeffress and Collier.
Jeffress played at the highest level on the world stage for his age group and was a productive member of the USA U19 Team. This is a disappointing story unfolding with Pitt BB.
I’m afraid this team will be a shell of itself in just a short few weeks.
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He’s shooting 23 percent on the season. I think Capel wants to ride it out with Toney and Champagnie. Collier should be seeing a few minutes. He’s your starting four next season after Justin heads to the NBA.
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Winning was fun while it lasted. Sigh.
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Little surprised by some of the takes on this thread, almost sounds pantherlairish level. I thought Pitt played hard to the end which is why they kept it respectable, but regardless we seemed to play this game even with UNC with the exception of the one player advantage, Bacot. This was obviously and simply a bad matchup, UNC had talent and size at a position where Pitt did not, which led to countless layups and putbacks all game. I like both Jeffress and Collier in terms of potential, but both showed they are not ready for this level yet, hopefully they both get more opportunities as the season progresses. If there is one Capel fought exposed in this game, it is the lack of Center recruiting.
H2P
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I am hesitant to implicate Jeffress and Collier without any positive proof. However, I have yet to see any info why they both have been MIA over the past few games ….. especially Jeffress whose defensive skills would have be invaluable against Wake Forest.
I don’t think either would have made a significant impact last night …but Hugley may have helped. Still UNC was just a bad match-up for Pitt; we have all agreed here that the 5 position is the weak link (as it has been since Talib Zanna … and even he was a power forward playing the center position.)
Unlike a year ago, Champagnie has been consistently good …. the sad thing is the upperclassmen hasn’t been. Without the depth that the 3 missing freshmen provide, this team needs the big 3 to show up every game like they did last week vs Cuse …. and that’s not going to happen. I just hope there isn’t an all out February collapse like the past 3 years
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Actually, Toney has been excellent this year as well, with the exception of last night where he was quiet, but Toney is an undersized guy who does a lot of damage around the rim, and again, due to the size differential that took away a good chunk of his game last night. The only one of the 3 upperclassmen that has not developed imho is Johnson, but I think that’s a basketball IQ situation so that is not likely to change, it’s just going to be hit and miss with him.
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Sorry, I meant to say “if there is one Capel fought that was exposed…”
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Ah, come on, 1618. Any coach starting from scratch who can’t consistently beat Duke and North Carolina by year three, has got to go. Time to move on.
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Coach Capel is what, 3 and 3, against Duke and Carolina over the last two years?
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There should be a stat for out of control plays (whether resulting in a turnover or not) that lead to easy transition buckets the other way. I’d bet that X man would lead the country in this category.
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If I was playing Pitt I would always play man to man because that forces X to think he needs to do it all. He is much more effective against a zone and there is good flow to their offense as well.
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UCF football went undefeated in 2017, finishing 6th in the AP Poll. Then (1) they lost their coach after the season, (2) lost their All-American QB to a long-term injury late in the 2018 season, (3) lost their AD a few weeks ago, and (4) now appears to be losing their 2nd coach in 3 years.
This is almost Pitt-like (except for finishing in the Top 10)
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As usual there was irrational exuberance after the nice wins, seems some Pitt fans are schizo, too high or too low. Pitt is marginally better than last year which is great. We have one very good close to great player, one other solid player, one hot and cold player, a shooter that comes and goes, but is never dominant, a decent power forward playing center. A bench that includes and up and coming point guard, a very soft senior center,
a transfer guard who hasn’t done much. Then you have a much needed big man with great potential who is dismissed for his illegal activity and two guys, one with great potential one project who are MIA for undisclosed reasons. This has really hurt the depth, especially Hugely who was the 1A center, probably the starter by now. Jeffress is a good defender, rebounder and would have been finding his offense by now.
Yet, last night was the first ACC game where they were not competitive, and the POV has collapsed like a pricked balloon. I thought I saw some good things on offense last night, just not enough of them. On defense Pitt had no answer for Bacot and their other big guys crashing the boards. The size and athleticism was overwhelming and their runs were better than ours.
No doubt X is trying to do too much and needs to play more point guard and lower the number of attacks to the board. The ones that work can be spectacular but too often he drives into no man’s land and looks foolish.
To think that Pitt has the personnel to consistently beat teams with HOF coaches and programs that recruit elite players year after year in Capel’s third year is stupefying. Only Pitt fans have that much gall.
There is no doubt that Pitt is better than the last few years, but let’s not get crazy, even a down year in the ACC doesn’t mean teams aren’t good. The loss of the three freshman hurts a little this year, hopefully not a major program setback. Pitt will only get really competitive with multiple solid recruiting classes.
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Heupel to Tennessee along with their AD.
Maybe a school
Can hire our AD and HC. Maybe Gannon, Wooster or Carlow.
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UCF had a vision, Developed multiple strategies and plans within plans. They then executed with great leaders and a competent team. Well run organization. This is very bad news for Pitt.
Nobody will rid Pitt of their AD and football coach. Not even Gannon. They ain’t that stupid.
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Well that point spread wasn’t high enough. Lost money and now have to wear a Tarheels hat. I thought I learned my lesson to never bet on Pitt years ago. Capel is a good Barnum.
Tex always a sucker for a freak show
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Dan72’s Post-game recap is up. Thanks Dan!
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