josephski wrote:Blue Man wrote:PeterRamTime wrote:Yeah might need to play the bigs more.
I seem to remember us playing well when we had both Berry and Langevine in the game at the same time.
I like our guards against theirs in this game.
They haven't faced pressure like ours.
We are full of senior leaders and we are a program that has been rebuilt and is building.
They're still putting it together with a relatively young talented team.
At this point, I just believe that we will win these types of games against teams around our level.
They're showing Loyola Illinois vs Florida on the SEC network instead of this game....
On the bigs point, something clicked in my head when we rolled 5 guards out in crunch time against a big east team: we don't have to do shit.
We are so good, deep, and talented in the back court - Dan can literally just throw 5 guards out there against another team and say "try to beat us. Try to play our way and keep up."
I think that is kind of lost on all of us...but we are really
that good. That's what you get out of typical 2nd weekend teams; forcing you to play a style of game they dictate and control. This is the next level that we haven't got to experience at URI.
Well it worked against Seton Hall and PC but was one of the reasons we lost to Virginia. I agree that we should try to dictate the style of game with a four guard lineup but we need to be ready for games against teams like Virginia where we may have to go with two big men.
Also I think Stan being on the floor is a huge part of having the four guards be successful. He played 33 minutes against Seton Hall and 35 against PC, if he gets into foul trouble then it really weakens our four guard lineup in my opinion.
100% disagree. We lost to Virginia because we missed layups and free throws. If we play an average game hitting those layups and more free throws we win. We were in the position to hit open and close shots and just missed them.
That's not indicative of that style working or not. It was a 1 point game with 15 minutes to go.
We were exhausted having played 4 players 35+ minutes, were short 2 players in the rotation, playing a team who was fresh. Tired legs = missed bunnies and free throw struggles.
We will never be in a position again where you play a good team after exhausting yourself less than 24 hours earlier.
I agree that we don't want to play 4 or 5 guards the full 40 minutes, but like TP said - being able to pick and choose where to deploy that lineup will make us lethal. Throw in a full rotation (Jarvis, Jared, EC, Stan, Berry - Jarvis, Cyril, Fatts, Preston, Akele) around the 5 guard lineup, and you could just hot swap or throw 2 full capable lineups out there.
Honestly, when you think about it you have 2 complete teams that could win the A10 this year. I'm dead serious when I say that Jarvis, Fatts, Akele, Preston, and Cyril could beat 3/4 of the A10's starting lineups this year. (more a commentary on the quality of the league...but you get the point).