Trading baskets is good.
Wow! Lee gets triple-double on clutch pass to Pierce for the reverse layup.
TRIPLE-DOUBLE FOR THE X-MAN!!!
This is what I mean by Lee taking over. Sometimes, late in games when everyoneās tired, your best player has to dominate the ball for the shot or the pass for the shot.
Nice!
Gotta make our FTs to ice thisā¦ get it into Davis or Leeās hands.
Cannot buy a call with Hawks diving on Tigers. But they turn it over anyway,
Regardless of outcome, they came to play. Tremendous rebounding effort all game.
Absolutely. Finally, theyāre gang rebounding. Box out, tap out, bump and grind, dive on the floor.
This was more what I was expecting to see: The weaknesses are more based on the limitations of the experienced players rather than the sloppiness and lack of effort from the earlier games. So no easy ORs even for bigger opponents and also better rim contesting,
Statement win! Very pleasantly surprised by what we saw tonight.
GREAT WIN!!! Finally, this team looked like they were supposed to.
Really needed this game after Myrtle Beach. Amazing team effort - especially proud of Byriel and Lee.
We didnāt even play an A+ game (Davis ice cold, 5-6 dumb TOs in the 2nd half). Just played hard and got enough big plays from Lee and Pierceā¦ and Byriel.
Philip can shoot the rock and is getting a little better on defense too.
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Totally agree. I can take losing on missed 3s and lack of rim protection - thatās gonna happen with our roster.
But I was shocked to see how sloppy, soft - even lazy - our guys looked until tonight. Lack of size is not an excuse for lack of effort. Allocco is proof of that. Heās a 6-4, 190 PG and plays like 6-8, 220 SF.
Depth and size. Thatās the difference. Got meaningful run from Byriel, Abdullahi, Happy, and Seals - Lee and Pierce had gas at the end of the game
One final comment - I usually like to listen to announcers from other schools because you get different perspectives, but I had to mute this one in the first half. Maybe it got better and I missed it, or I was just being persnickety, but I hope not to endure that again.
I remember the St. Joeās play-by-play guy from last year. Heās obviously a homer but not egregious.
Joe Lunardi - he of the Bracketology grift, er, fame - provided the color commentary. It was not very memorable or colordul.
With Lee and Rasheer Fleming on draft boards, you know a ton of NBA scouts were in attendance tonight. Both shined very brightly and surely helped their cause.
Tough win on the home court of a quality opponent.
Intensity was high throughout and the Tigers did not wilt when St. Joeās made it a back and forth game. Davis had a bad night but Byriel offset it. And Lee, after an ugly stretch, lifted his game and the team.
The Tigers, who are still forming their identity, have a lot of good pieces and tonight they came together and showed them (and us!) how good they can be this year.
Maybe the Myrtle Beach meltdown will be a similar wake-up call as the debacle vs. Yale prior to Princetonās Sweet Sixteen run?
I still canāt believe they flipped the switch after THAT loss and went on a historic March run. They looked dead in the water and somehow achieved what we hoped the previous yearās ābetterā team might do.
But I need to see how this team finishes non-conf: Furman, Monmouth, Rutgers, Akron. All good tests in their own way. Good team on the road, trap game vs. a weak team, marquee game with lots of fanfare, solid team thatās completely unfamiliar.
High praise for Xaivian from Billy Lange:
āHeās just unique. Thereās no one else really (like him) in college basketball,ā St. Joeās coach Billy Lange said. āHeās got like the moxie of Devin Booker.ā
Canāt believe that was the first Princeton triple double. Would have thought Kit Mueller would have done that once.