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Ohio State 81, St. Joe's 74 (Final)

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jimotis4heisman said:
disagree. dials is far and away the best player on the team. his ability to eat space is amazing. he opens the perimeter game up for everyone.
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he's a force, and a great player, but I feel like there have been a few times he has been off his game. I've yet to feel that way about foster... which is impressive with how often he tries to make things happen (vs. Sullinger, Lewis, Mayes who can force the issue at times)

looking up foster's stats...
 
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After today's game, his FG% & 3pt% is up 2%, FT up 4.5%, ppg up 1.5 pts

SCORING GP | FG-FGA | FG% | 3FG-FGA | 3PT% | FT-FTA | FT% | PTS | PTS/G
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Foster, Je'Kel...... 5 | 31-42 | .738 | 14-22 | .636 | 14-17 | .824 | 90 | 18.0

checking big ten stats

Foster was leading FG % in the big ten (second place was C Sims, Michigan 67.7%)... he still is :)

Sullinger was leading the big ten in rebounding, unsure if he still is (6 today).
 
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BuckFanAtAkron said:
sylvester is terrible this game.
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And you need your fucking head checked. That's as good an excuse as any to begin my analysis of the game. I would have liked to have finished reading the thread, but the unbridled idiocy of that post shot the possibility of that all to hell. First of all, don't do that. Second, a person such as yourself - and I feel 100% comfortable saying this, having no knowledge whatsoever about you - has no business saying something that inflammatory about a player who, by all accounts, has done and continues to do everything he can to help the team. Yes, Syl made at least one very illadvised pass down the stretch. Had your tiny little brain been paying attention, you may have noticed that he followed said erroneous pass with a full-court assist that set up Ron Lewis' dunk. Syl had eight points, at least six assists, and a clutch steal and kick back at a time in the game when St. Joe's was charging its hardest. So don't - not for a second - presume that your misguided, ham-fisted read of a ninety-second series of plays is something on which you should base a value judgment of a single player's performance. Since much of that probably didn't make it through the matted hair and manjam that most likely insulates the lump of crusty cat shit that you call gray matter, I'll move on to more important things and let you just kind of soak that up.

While we're on the subject of Matt Sylvester, I was very impressed with his defense this game. As I've said in prior posts, when he is motivated (granted, you could argue that that should be 'all the time'), he plays great defense. Again, he isn't the kind of player around which the offense is focused. He showed a couple times last year that he has the chops to make a difference when the rest of the team is flat, but he simply doesn't command the attention on offense that a sharpshooter like Foster or a pure slasher like Lewis does. Nevertheless, he is invaluable as an inbounds passer, and he remains - despite his errors - a valuable cog in the on-floor leadership of this team.

Foster, obviously, gets all due praise this game. While Jay Bilas spent most of the game defecating out his throat-hole on national television, he did have one accurate comment: "Je'Kel Foster is a very good player." As I predicted, Foster (along with the other three senior captains) had a poise throughout the game that essentially nullified the intimidation factor of the Palestra. His play in the first half earned us the lead that we would never relinquish, regardless of St. Joe's admirable, yet entirely futile surges.

It wasn't Dials' kind of game, and the Hawks did a great job of taking him out of the equation. I don't fault him for a thin stat sheet.

J.J. continues to do what J.J. do. I just love his style.

Did Ivan see the floor? Without looking at the box score, I'd wager a 'no'.

I'm very optimistic about the season now. Honestly (as I'm sure I indicated in my preview), I was plenty apprehensive about our first road contest. Needless to say, I have grossly underestimated Matta as a coach, which is truly saying something considering how much I already respected his acumen. Frankly, I'm more excited about the remainder of the basketball season than I am about our window-dressing match-up against Notre Dame.

See you all on Monday night, after I join what I'm sure will be a less than 50% crowd at the Schott when we obliterate Norfolk State.
 
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You're right we shouldn't run him down (guilty), but that was far from his only mistake vr. He had 3 pretty poor passes, and forced a shot. That is just how he plays. He gives 100%, makes some big plays, and makes some ugly mistakes. This was the case in the illinois game last year as well.
vrbryant said:
Did Ivan see the floor? Without looking at the box score, I'd wager a 'no'.
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I only noticed Ivan on a closeup replay underneath where he picked up a foul.
 
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12/10/05


Ohio St. 81, St. Joseph's 74

Ohio St. 81, St. Joseph's 74Preview - Box Score - Recap
December 10, 2005
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Ohio State hit its first seven 3-pointers and survived a second-half rally by Saint Joseph's to beat the Hawks 81-74 Saturday at the Palestra.

Je'Kel Foster scored a career-high 24 points and grabbed 10 rebounds for Ohio State (4-0), which built a 25-10 lead less than 10 minutes into the game on a 3-pointer by Jamar Butler. The shot -- and the Buckeyes' hot perimeter shooting -- caused Saint Joseph's head coach Phil Martelli to throw up his hands in frustration. The OSU lead reached 43-25 on a 3-pointer by Foster early in the second half, before Saint Joseph's (4-2) rallied. The Hawks pulled within 51-46 on a 3-pointer by Dwayne Lee with 9:16 left, causing Ohio State to call a time out as the SJU fans roared their approval.

But the Buckeyes answered, as Ron Lewis nailed a 3-pointer from the left wing and J.J. Sullinger leaped high in the air for an offensive rebound, was fouled on the putback, and converted a 3-point play to restore the OSU lead to 57-46.


Ohio State remained ahead the rest of the way, though the Hawks pulled to within 70-66 on Abdulai Jalloh's layup with 1:03 left. But Matt Sylvester hit Ron Lewis with a length of the court pass after the ensuing timeout and Lewis converted a three-point play to keep Saint Joseph's at bay. Lewis finished with 14 points -- all in the second half. Jalloh led the Hawks with a career-high 30 points, while Sullinger played tremendous defense against Saint Joseph's leading scorer, Chet Stachitas, limiting him to one field goal and nine points, less than half his average of 19.8 points per game. Lee added 20 for the Hawks.
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A few observations on this game......

First and foremost it was a good quality win on the road. That is not an easy place to win. We have to be encouraged by our shooting beyond the arc and how we handled their late run in the second half.

Secondly, we have to be concerned by our inability to get the ball to Dials in good position to score. Dials only shot three times, thats not enough. We will need him to score more in the conference.

Lastly, we have to be happy about this first road game and how we handled a tough environment, especially Foster and Lewis, they made some key baskets down the stretch.
 
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Ohio State remained ahead the rest of the way, though the Hawks pulled to within 70-66 on Abdulai Jalloh's layup with 1:03 left. But Matt Sylvester hit Ron Lewis with a length of the court pass after the ensuing timeout and Lewis converted a three-point play to keep Saint Joseph's at bay.
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Shit, Sylvester was terrible this game...
 
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Matt Sylvester is an enigma.

His strengths...

1. Like VR said, when motivated, he works his tail off on defense.

2. Obviously has all the physical tools to make spectacular plays.

3. Not afraid of pressure.

4. Has an uncanny knack for finding the open guy with passes.


The knocks on his game...

1. Motivation - he tends to sleepwalk through stretches defensively and gets sloppy in regards to crisp passing. That negates stengths number 1 and 4.

2. Shot Selection - the guy never met a shot he didn't think he would drain. with 10-15 seconds left on the shot clock late in a game, up by as much as we were and with a guy in his face...there is no reason to put it up. More disturbing than this, is that his idea of getting open doesn't inolve making sharp cuts and using screens. He relies too much on the turnaround fadeaway jumper, spin moves and beating guys off the dribble to get shots up. The guy relies too much on physical 1-on-1 skills that lead to inconsistency in a team game. This can turn strengths #2 and #3 into weaknesses at points too.

Sylk can be the best player on the floor one minute, and the worst a minute later. After his late season play last year, I wanted to believe that a leadership switch was flipped in his head and that he would be more consistent this year. I was wrong.

He's gonna win some for you, he's gonna lose some for you. He could have lost this last one with several bad decisions in the late going. Things could have been a lot worse. Here's hoping he makes up for it the next time we need him to come up big.
 
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