Jackets Take Down FSU.....barely

Wow, just when you think things are in hand with a 13 point lead and the ball, it all falls apart. A long scoring drought.....again, and before you know it, FSU has the lead with 9 seconds on the clock. Then the Jackets get a huge break when Jack, while stumbling out-of-bounds, shovels a no-look, behind-the-back pass that ends up in the hands of BJ Elder..... who is promtly fouled while trying to get the ball up to the basket..... with 0.4 seconds. Elder calmly drains 2 FT's to put the Jackets up by one, and that was all she wrote, Jackets 76-75.


1. Amazing how when shots are falling, how good this team looks. Amazing how bad they look when they are not. Scoring droughts are becoming a concern, as we have had two very long stretches in the 2nd half of the past two games. In the first half everyone from Elder to Bynum to Morrow to Jeremis Smith were hitting long-distance shots.


2. Defense. It's funny. We seemed to play tough D in the game, yet FSU still managed to shoot 50%. But it came down to open 3's and missed assignments around the hoop - or so it seemed.


3. Playing time was distributed more evenly this game with guys like J-Smith, Morrow, Bynum all getting 13-15 minutes, with West and Dickey loggin 5 and 9 respectively. The two guys who have disappeared from the rotation are Buck Fredrick and T.Tarver. Both were DNP's.


Well, not a lot of time to put much more right now. Headed to Shreveport LA in the morning, then on to Alabama later in the week.


A win is a win. And a road win is a little bigger. GO JACKETS.



GT EDGES FSU


BOX SCORE


NOLES LOSE ANOTHER CLOSE GAME


SEMINOLES DISAPPOINTED WITH SURPRISE ENDING


GT 76 FSU 75


STAR'S RETURN HEALS JACKETS


FSU IN ROLE OF SPOILER....NOT