March 22th, 2019 – NCAA First Round
(4) Florida State (21-6) vs (13) Northeastern (19-13)
Northeastern is rated 76 OVR (77 off/76 def/79 sht/83 reb/80 coach). We should totally outclass them at 90 OVR (91 off/89 def/93 sht/91 reb/83 coach) but we've seen underdogs play big in these situations and ratings not matter much.
Full scouting shouldn't be needed here, Northeastern is led by SR PF LF Grady, a 6'10” big man who is a quality rebounder(92 off/80 def), and a good offensive player(80 post off/93 close/86 in traffic). He is a bit lacking on defense(68 post defense). He leads the team with 13.4 ppg.
After that we're looking at a lot of guys rated in the low 70s or worse. SG Bruthelleus, PG Figueroa are rated 74 and 71 OVR, neither can shoot the 3 and neither are big scorers. Stop Grady and we should win. Or really just don't suck it up on offense and we should win.
Half
| Time
| FSU
| NU
| Notes
|
1
| 15:15
| 5
| 11
| Heh, great start. We have 4 fouls, and Weisse picked up #2 and #3 before I could get him out, so Watson is in early.
|
1
| 14:20
| 7
| 12
| Backups are in, we've committed 6 fouls now and drawn 1. Crosswhite has all 7 of our points.
|
1
| 10:45
| 17
| 15
| That's better, good consistent scoring from all over and we're in the lead. Timeout Northeastern.
|
1
| 8:00
| 19
| 21
| Another timeout for Northeastern after a thunderous dunk by Watson, but they're still winning.
|
1
| 7:35
| 19
| 21
| Starters back in. Shiloh/Watson will split time at SF with Weisse in foul trouble.
|
1
| 3:55
| 26
| 36
| Hah, hate this game sometimes. Watson just threw two inbounds passes away in a row, Grady is going crazy for them and we're down 10 all of a sudden to a hugely inferior team. I call a timeout.
|
| HALF
| 34
| 40
| Fouls is the biggest story. We commit 9, allowing them to shoot 15/16. They commit 4, and we are 4/4 at the line, an 11 point difference. Summers has 2 fouls, Weisse has 3.
Grady is the other story. He is 7-9 from the field, he is just making Pugh look terrible. 16 points/3 boards/2 assists/4 steals... Their PG, figueroa, has 7, 4 of those at the line though.
Crosswhite gives us 14, he has all our free throws. Pugh is keeping up pretty good on offense, 8 points/6 boards. Grady is a poor defender and it shows. However, Summers/Weisse/Locklier... all are scoreless. Summers and Weisse have to get involved this half. Also, Locklier is a better post defender than Pugh, so I put Locklier on Grady.
|
2
| 14:30
| 47
| 55
| Defense? Come on defense! I call a timeout and get my backups in. We can't seem to cut the lead down below 5, and actually let them get up 10 at one point. Summers and Weisse both have 3 fouls and our big men are tired inside.. backups coming in early and the starters will go the final 8 or 9 minutes.
|
2
| 12:40
| 51
| 59
| We draw two quick fouls on Grady and he sits with 3.
|
2
| 9:10
| 54
| 65
| Starters are back in... man, what the hell. We just cannot stop them consistently and sure as hell aren't scoring consistently.
|
2
| 6:10
| 62
| 71
| Seriously play some damn defense. We get 4 easy baskets... all layups, 3 by Crosswhite and one by Weisse... yet we let them score to match us every time. Northeastern just called a timeout.
|
2
| 5:25
| 65
| 71
| Crosswhite trying to will us to victory, hitting a circus shot and drawing a foul in transition... he's got 9 of our last 11, 25 total.
|
2
| 3:35
| 67
| 71
| Crosswhite with another bucket in transition, it took a couple defensive stops before we finally got the basket we needed. Timeout northeastern, their ball.
|
2
| 2:50
| 69
| 73
| Each team scores once, they call another timeout.
|
2
| 2:20
| 72
| 75
| They score a way too easy bucket on their end, but Crosswhite strokes a 3 from the right baseline on our end, and we get it down to 3.
|
2
| 1:20
| 76
| 77
| Grady scores his 23rd on their end, Crossswhite his 32nd on our end, then Summers gets a steal and break, he's fouled but hits both his free throws. We're only down 1.
|
2
| 0:40
| 76
| 79
| Grady with an interior feed to their guard, Figueroa for a bucket. Summers gets an open look at a 3 on our end and misses it, and we're fouling them.
|
2
| 0:34
| 78
| 79
| They miss the front end, Summers attacks the rim and draws a foul. He makes both.
|
2
| 0:20
| 80
| 79
| They miss the front end again! Crosswhite attacks and draws a foul... both of these fouls were on Grady, that's #4 and #5, he's gone. Crosswhite makes both, time to play defense.
|
Our defense is good and they get a terrible shot, contested from 20 feet out, and its no good. We win a game that we trailed almost the entire way in.
(4) Florida State 80
(13) Northeastern 79
I'm not really sure why we couldn't do it in the first half... towards the end of the game Crosswhite just took over and saved our asses. We need a better team effort regardless of our next opponent.
They got 23 points from PF Grady and 16 from 74 rated PG Figueroa.
Summers: 9 points/2 assists/2 steals
Crosswhite: 34 points
Weisse: 4 points
Pugh: 10 points/13 boards
Locklier: 4 points/6 boards
Delic: 8 points
Shiloh: 7 points