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Penn State 86, Illinois 79 2OT POSTGAME
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<blockquote data-quote="Ulysses Everett McGill" data-source="post: 1197714" data-attributes="member: 327307"><p>Does giving the ball to Malcolm at the top of the key to go 1 on 1 even constitute a "play"? I don't know the answer, but whatever you want to call it, I can't recall a single end-of-half/end-of-game/end-of-OT situation this year where we did anything other than give Hill the ball up top to go Michael Jordan. And in how many of those situations -- there have been many this year -- did we even get a decent shot off, let alone make one? In a very few instances there's not been enough time to run through the offense, but most times there is plenty. And we just let MH dribble the clock down way too far before he does his thing, <em>which he is not good at in these scenarios</em>. The difference between having him do this in the middle of a game with a full 30 second clock and having him do it with time running down in critical situations is huge. Everyone including the tsar of Russia knows the play. Why? Because it's the only thing we ever do in that scenario. The defense knows it's Malcolm dribbling to get a shot off, period. I remember a game mid-year where we got the ball with a chance to win at the end, Malcolm had it and starting running the O, but it was right in front of Groce and Groce halted the play, and motioned Malcolm to the top of the key, where he dribbled the clock down and couldn't get a shot off. Rant over, but can anyone explain this -- why you <em>never</em> try anything else, especially when it's never worked?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ulysses Everett McGill, post: 1197714, member: 327307"] Does giving the ball to Malcolm at the top of the key to go 1 on 1 even constitute a "play"? I don't know the answer, but whatever you want to call it, I can't recall a single end-of-half/end-of-game/end-of-OT situation this year where we did anything other than give Hill the ball up top to go Michael Jordan. And in how many of those situations -- there have been many this year -- did we even get a decent shot off, let alone make one? In a very few instances there's not been enough time to run through the offense, but most times there is plenty. And we just let MH dribble the clock down way too far before he does his thing, [I]which he is not good at in these scenarios[/I]. The difference between having him do this in the middle of a game with a full 30 second clock and having him do it with time running down in critical situations is huge. Everyone including the tsar of Russia knows the play. Why? Because it's the only thing we ever do in that scenario. The defense knows it's Malcolm dribbling to get a shot off, period. I remember a game mid-year where we got the ball with a chance to win at the end, Malcolm had it and starting running the O, but it was right in front of Groce and Groce halted the play, and motioned Malcolm to the top of the key, where he dribbled the clock down and couldn't get a shot off. Rant over, but can anyone explain this -- why you [I]never[/I] try anything else, especially when it's never worked? [/QUOTE]
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