[NU Sports] RE: Not ready for prime-time players

[Roy S. Lamberton]

Putting the game into perspective - 12 hours later:

NU was in the classic "set up" - playing in a tourney on someone's home court against that someone, St. Johns.

You can accept it or not, but the Garden is St. John's house, and the St. Johns seniors, who are also used to being ripped by their local media, we itching to stick it to a team from a big conference. It might be the high point of their season.

They also have a new coach who obviously shook up the Red Storm, AND he enlisted the help of Keady (bad hair and all) to run Quality Control on his team. Keady never had any trouble beating NU when Perdoo was loaded with big inside guys. That's what St. John's brought to the court last night.

The telling stat was during the MVP awards, Shurna and Crawford were on the All Tourney team from NU. Thompson wasn't.

One other thing - on Luka: 

He's being asked to really step up this year. Every interview with BC that I've heard, either pregame or post, Carmody is asking Luka to get more "production." Monday night, Luka hits double figures, the Cats win going away. Last night - well look at the box score. Our big guys got handled in the paint. We can't do that in Big 10 play.

Still think the glass is more than half full. What has to happen is that when Shurna gets taken out of a game (like last night) Drew or Marcotullio or someone else steps up and lets Shurna get back into the game. 

That didn't happen in the 2nd half last night as St. Johns forced the 1-3-1 and scored layup after layup to shoot 60% from the floor. It was a clinic on how to beat NU's 1-3-1, and that bothers me more than anything else that happened last night.

Go Cats!

rsl 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Bendat [mailto:thehaze at earthlink.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2010 12:00 AM
To: Roy S. Lamberton; neonrye at aol.com; nwu-sports at tssi.com
Subject: Not ready for prime-time players

Given the stage, and the fact that it was a tournament final, this game was one of the biggest contests we've had in years. I really wanted to believe things would be different. I wanted to expect victory. I won't believe we make the NCAA tournament until I see the word "Northwestern" on the board during the NCAA tournament selection show on March 13th.

-----Original Message-----
>From: "Roy S. Lamberton" <rstetson at capps-assoc.com>
>Sent: Dec 21, 2010 8:43 PM
>To: neonrye at aol.com, nwu-sports at tssi.com
>Subject: RE: [NU Sports] Five Minutes to Go
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>You hit it on the nose Paul
>
>StJ went inside and we couldn't answer
>
>Very disturbing because the rest of the Big 10 will watch this video
>
>rsl
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>Roy S. Lamberton - Senior Associate & Unix Guru.
>Computer Applications & Support Associates
>-------------------- Also ----------------------
>"Commissioner" Delaware American Legion Baseball
>Director Media Relations - Little League 
>  Senior League Softball World Series
>Retired Senior Chief Cryptologic Technician [R]
>Northwestern University - Speech 1974 - 
>Chi Phi: Pi 1974, KD 1968
>Publisher Emeritus: Purple Reign (Fox Sports)
>==========  Go Cats -  Beat 'em All  ===========
>
>"...Then I get on my knees and pray,
>WE DON'T GET FOOLED AGAIN!" -- Pete Townsend
>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of
>neonrye at aol.com
>Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 11:23 PM
>To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
>Subject: [NU Sports] Five Minutes to Go
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>
> Watching the online stream it is evident that our lack of depth is killing us--not to
>mention our dearth of big men.  Our guys are exhausted and the game is slipping away.
>What would a healthy, active Coble have meant to this squad?  When Shurna sits, we die.
>Same for Juice.  And Luka is overmatched with all of the big bodies the Johnnies are
>bringing off the bench in waves.  I still harbor hopes of a great comeback, but I am not
>optimistic.  We may have been exposed tonight.  I really thought we would win this game
>and am very disappointed that we are crumbling in the Second Half.  We need a bench.  Will
>anyone step up in the conference season?
>
>Paul Levinson
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