Cornell Basketball - ECAC Holiday Classic

[phillysportsfan]

Yea, looks like are plans are halted due to the storm.

Yeah same here, it is painful to have to eat the cost of those $54 tickets.

[Jordan 04]

Cornell looking pretty good on both ends.  Early 13-5 lead with about 7 minutes gone, in front of practically DOZENS of rabid fans.

[phillysportsfan]

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[Al DeFlorio]

MSG and Fox College Sports Atlantic broadcasting tomorrow night's consolation and championship games starting at 7pm EST.

[phillysportsfan]

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[Al DeFlorio]

Just gave away another big second half lead.  Predictable, I regret to say.  Offense reverts to trey after trey and can't score inside, while giving up easy looks inside.

[Jordan 04]

Just gave away another big second half lead.  Predictable, I regret to say.  Offense reverts to trey after trey and can't score inside, while giving up easy looks inside.

Funny, no complaints about trey after trey in the first half when they were shooting 60%.

Davidson's a good team.  Cornell took the first half, Davidson took the second. And then the game ended when Foote decided not to call a timeout.

[Jordan 04]

Pretty interesting last minute coaching on both ends. Donahue needs to have the team call a TO on the first 1-and-1, IMO, and for Davidson to put nobody on the line to contend the rebound at the end seems awfully questionable as well.

[Al DeFlorio]

Just gave away another big second half lead.  Predictable, I regret to say.  Offense reverts to trey after trey and can't score inside, while giving up easy looks inside.

Funny, no complaints about trey after trey in the first half when they were shooting 60%.

Davidson's a good team.  Cornell took the first half, Davidson took the second. And then the game ended when Foote decided not to call a timeout.

Sorry, Jordan, the game didn't end.  

You clearly didn't understand what I wrote.  When treys go in, it's great.  When they don't, you need another facet in your offense.  Cornell doesn't have that.  Lastly, Davidson is NOT a "good team."  They may be in a year or two.  If Cornell wants any chance of being competitive in the NCAAs, they have to beat a young, inexperienced team like Davidson without all this drama.

[Willy '06]

And then the game ended when Foote decided not to call a timeout.

It's not over...

[Jordan 04]

Just gave away another big second half lead.  Predictable, I regret to say.  Offense reverts to trey after trey and can't score inside, while giving up easy looks inside.

Funny, no complaints about trey after trey in the first half when they were shooting 60%.

Davidson's a good team.  Cornell took the first half, Davidson took the second. And then the game ended when Foote decided not to call a timeout.

Sorry, Jordan, the game didn't end.  

You clearly didn't understand what I wrote.  When treys go in, it's great.  When they don't, you need another facet in your offense.  Cornell doesn't have that.  Lastly, Davidson is NOT a "good team."  They may be in a year or two.  If Cornell wants any chance of being competitive in the NCAAs, they have to beat a young, inexperienced team like Davidson without all this drama.

I understood what you wrote.  But it takes more than one missed three to establish that the well has run dry.  Wittman was raining threes from beyond the NBA arc in the first half.  It's not until he misses 3-4 open ones in the second half that you realize that the strategy has to change, and what I saw, was a team that did start to change.  They got to the line a number of times in the last few minutes by getting the ball down low.  But I'm not one to tell the best player in the league to stop taking open shots because he's miss one or two.

IMO, the issue this game has been the complete lack of help defense down low, and not the decisions to take open 3's.

And thanks to both of you for pointing out the most obvious reverse-jinx post.

[Jordan 04]

Nice bail-out call at the end to put Davidson on the line.

WITTMANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  How 'bout dem 3's

[Jim Hyla]

So let's see, we come out way ahead and then let the op get even. We go to OT, but this time we win. Maybe we shouldn't schedule any more MSG.

[Al DeFlorio]

It's not until he misses 3-4 open ones in the second half that you realize that the strategy has to change, and what I saw, was a team that did start to change.

They "started to change" after blowing a 16-point lead and falling behind--not very timely.  Same thing against Bucknell.  To be competitive against a top team, you have to get the ball inside to complement the treys.  Princeton's successful Pete Carrill-coached teams were masters at getting back-door lay-ups.  The threat of that made it easier for their three-point shooters.  Davidson worked many back-doors today to get back in the game.  No question, Cornell's inside defense is a weak point.  As is defensive rebounding, by the way.  Many too many Davidson offensive rebounds led to second-chance points.

[dbilmes]

We were lucky to win this game. We needed Davidson to choke on foul shots at the end of regulation and at the end of OT, which it did. And we needed a basket at the buzzer in regulation to send the game into OT, and a basket at the buzzer in OT to win the game after Dale, who got us into OT and carried us in the first part of OT, blew two FTs which would have given us a three-point lead. It's a great win, but our defense was terrible in the second half.