Seton Hall pictures.
Pictures courtesy Bill Allen '79 - NJ Sport/Action.
Tigers win the tip.
Marcus Schroeder scoop shot.
Noah Savage.
Justin Conway tied up.
Coach Joe Scott - 1/18/07.
princetonbasketball.com editor Jon Solomon and men's basketball coach Joe Scott recorded a candid and revealing interview this week at Jadwin Gym, reviewing Princeton's 0-2 trip to New York State and discussing the exam break plans for the Tigers as they prepare for Seton Hall and the rest of the Ivy schedule.
Some of the topics discussed include:
-The Ivy League opener versus Columbia and the difference between the first ten minutes and the last thirty minutes.
-The area where Princeton is now looking to make their greatest improvement.
-How Coach Scott could have prepared the team differently before last weekend and what he thinks he should have done in retrospect.
-The loss to Cornell and the “indecision” several Princeton players showed for the first time in this game.
-What the loss of Kyle Koncz means to this team.
-What the Cornell game showed the coaches about Zach Finley.
-Why Finley is positioned where he is on defense.
-A passing reference to a player that the coaches may find some minutes for this year.
-What specifically about Cornell’s zone caused Princeton problems.
-If Coach Scott has any memories of the 1983-84 season, the last time Princeton started 0-2 in Ivy play, and if he uses any of this for inspiration.
-The schedule over the exam break, both individually and as a team.
-If Princeton looks beyond Seton Hall as they prepare to play at Yale and Brown.
-What is expected of Noah Savage with Koncz out.
-Updates on the health of both Koncz and Savage.
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Columbia pictures.
Pictures courtesy Bill Allen '79 - NJ Sport/Action.
Another for the collection of Lincoln Gunn with his mouth open.
Edwin Buffmire and his new haircut.
Luke Owings.
Marcus Schroeder.
Lincoln Gunn ties the game at 44.
Coach Joe Scott - 1/11/07.
princetonbasketball.com editor Jon Solomon and men's basketball coach Joe Scott got together the afternoon before the start of Princeton's Ivy League schedule to review the Tigers' dominating defensive effort versus Rice and to scout the weekend's road trip to Columbia and Cornell.
Some of the topics discussed include:
-The Tigers’ great defensive communication in the victory over Rice.
-Defending Morris Almond and Luke Owings’ comments after the Rice game that Almond can’t score if the ball isn’t in his hands. Was this part of the defensive gameplan?
-The weird six minute stretch in the second half versus Rice where Princeton turned the ball over ten times in eleven possessions and what may have caused this.
-The fact that only one player in Princeton’s nine man rotation made their first shot, yet the Tigers still won by 23. Is this a good thing or a bad thing?
-If practice has been going well this week.
-The health of the team and an injury to a Princeton starter that may limit their minutes this weekend.
-Other areas of concern heading into Ivy play.
-The different problems Columbia and Cornell present this weekend.
-Last year’s difficulty on the perimeter at Columbia.
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Noah Savage dunk.
Noah Savage dunks against Rice to put Princeton up 39-19 on Saturday afternoon.
Source images courtesy Bill Allen ‘79 - NJ Sport/Action.
Rice pictures.
Pictures courtesy of Stephen Goldsmith and Bill Allen '79 - NJ Sport/Action.
Noah Savage in the clear.
Marcus Schroeder pulls up.
Michael Strittmatter, defended.
Luke Owings on the move.
Edwin Buffmire blocks the shot.
Princeton 51 Rice 28.
box score : audio - coach joe scott
audio - justin conway : audio - luke owings : audio - marcus schroeder
Coach Joe Scott - 1/4/07.
In their first interview of 2007, princetonbasketball.com editor Jon Solomon and men's basketball coach Joe Scott talk about Princeton's 57-46 victory over Iona and preview the final non-conference game before Ivy League play begins, this Saturday's contest at Jadwin Gym versus Rice.
Some of the topics discussed include:
-Princeton’s success against Iona and what Coach Scott liked about how the game was played.
-If the Tigers did what was expected of them while they were away from campus for a few days over the holidays.
-How practice has been going since then.
-Justin Conway’s two big three point shots versus Iona and how Coach Scott shows his players he hasn’t lost confidence in them when they’re struggling in a particular aspect of their game.
-How Princeton could avoid having so many seemingly open point-blank shots end up blocked.
-Marcus Schroeder leading the nation in minutes-per-game, if he can keep up this pace and if this is something the coaching staff wants him to do.
-Rice, and the nation’s leading scorer, Morris Almond. Does a player like Almond make it difficult to create an effective scouting report?
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Iona pictures.
Pictures courtesy Bill Allen '79 - NJ Sport/Action.
Lincoln Gunn in the post.
Michael Strittmatter blocks an attempted dunk.
Lincon Gunn and Steve Goodrich should one day discuss if either has ever been photographed in a game with their mouth closed.
