I've got a recipe for immediate, guaranteed success: Before every game, Hewitt should decide what his instincts are telling him to do against our upcoming opponent, and do the exact opposite.
I know we're not a great -- or even good -- pressing team. But SJU has very little depth at full strength and even less than that with both Roberts and Miles in street clothes. So can somebody please explain to me why we didn't press and push the tempo in an attempt to get into the Hawks' sorry bench?
Letting them walk the ball up the court and play in the halfcourt against our awful defense was playing right into Martelli's hands.
We outscored their bench 27-2, but not that it made any difference; with help from Hewitt, Martelli was able to play his 5 starters for all but about 10 minutes.
Brilliant!
Even Pete Gillen, who was never a master tactician during his coaching days, wondered aloud multiple times why we weren't pressing. When Pete Gillen is second-guessing your coaching, that's just about rock bottom.