HARVARDDADGRAD
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11-14-21 11:58 AM - Post#328397
In response to digamma
Iona employed a full court press the entire game. Wojik with only 2 TO's in 37 minutes really protected the ball. It might also have been that the better defenders were on Kirkwood, Tretout, Sakota and Ledlum though. Regardless, I was frustrated as Tommy sat Tretout for most of the game, but I now see that he had 5 TO's in 20 minutes. Tretout is a much better offensive weapon (9 pts in 20 minutes) than Wojcik (6 pts in 37 minutes), but yesterday we needed someone to break the press and play like a true PG. On the season, Tretout has 20 points in 48 minutes, with 3 assits and 8 TO's, whereas Wojcik is at 8pts in 52 min with 3/2 A/TO.
Nice to see Freedman have a role. It seems to me that Tommy is looking for opportunities to rest others and insert Spencer when the opposing lineup presents an opportunity to protect Spencer's defensive weakness. He scored 7 points in 11 minutes, but did have 2 TO's. One was when he penetrated but then had to pick up his dribble as he couln't get to the rim. Spencer did make every shot he attempted (1 basket, 1 '3', and 2-2 FT's).
Couldn't believe we were facing Rick Pitino down the stretch with Freedman, Silverstein, Wojik and Sakota on the floor. Iona just kept feeding their bigs, who shot 67% on the day, seemingly all at the rim. With Mason and/or Justice it would have been much different.
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