December 12, 2024
Montana (2-7) at #4 Florida State (7-0)
TEAM: FSU|UM
OVR: 93|72
OFF: 93|72
DEF: 91|71
SHT: 95|74
REB: 91|82
COA: 91|75
Montana is terrible. RPI of 300.
Scouting
PF Elmer Hunter is rated 77 OVR. Their Center is only 59 OVR. Guards are in the 60-71 range, with a soph PG and SG. PF Hunter averages 21.4 points/game. Their PG, Horton averages 9, and they're just at 67 per game as a team, so they get a huge % of their scoring from those two guys.
Half
| Time
| FSU
| MU
| Notes
|
1
| 15:00
| 5
| 5
| Rough start, Mayer has 4 points, all in transition. Day misses a 3, Black and Millar both miss a couple inside. Millar is 1-2 at the line. Montana's SG has a 3 and a 2 point jumper.
|
1
| 11:45
| 14
| 8
| That's better. Mayer has 13 of our 14 points, they start missing 3's and other midrange and long jumpers, and we get out on the run and score with incredible ease. Early on they were shooting inside and we were picking up tough loose balls/misses inside and not getting to fast break. Backups are in.
|
1
| 9:10
| 18
| 10
| Slow going for the backups too, but Jolly gets 4 straight inside and Montana calls a timeout.
|
1
| 6:40
| 20
| 16
| Backups really don't play all that well, and the starters come back in with a 4 point lead only.
|
1
| 4:00
| 22
| 24
| We just cannot hit a shot in the half court set. Day is 0-4 from 3, Modica 0-2, the post guys cannot score... frustrating!
|
| HALF
| 36
| 29
| We score the final 7 of the half. We are 1/13 from 3, shooting 41% from the floor. Mayer has 20, almost entirely in transition. No one else can get anything going anywhere. Day is 1-7 from 3, all wide open. Millar is 0-4 inside. Porter, Dearman, and Carlisle combine for 1-6 from the floor.
Montana is 13-33 from the field, slightly worse than us. Their SG, Stevenson, has 11.
|
2
| 15:35
| 49
| 37
| Millar finally hits a couple inside, Day is 2-10 but hits another open 3, Mayer has 7 more and we extend the lead out to 12, timeout Montana.
|
2
| 13:35
| 51
| 42
| Montana goes into a 1-2-2 zone and we miss a few more open 3's. Backups are in.
|
2
| 9:25
| 60
| 47
| They score 5 straight to cut it to 4. Carlisle with a layup, a couple more easy buckets and Porter just drained a 3 to put us right back up 13. Timeout Montana.
|
2
| 6:50
| 68
| 52
| Starters are back in. Seems like we've got it under control.
|
#4 Florida State 80
Montana 61
Their top player, PF Hunter, has a really good game against Millar. He's 11-19 for 23 points and pulls in 10 boards. Their SG Stevenson scores 16 total, after scoring their first 8 points early in the game. We hold them to under 40% from the field, 7-27 from 3.
Modica: 8 points
Day: 7 points
Mayer: 35 points/4 boards
Millar: 5 points/15 boards
Black: 2 points/9 boards
Porter: 9 points
Jolly: 6 points
We shoot terrible from 3, Day goes 1-8, Porter 1-6. In each of these last two games Mayer wouldn't be such a ridiculously dominant scorer compared to the rest of the team if someone else could have hit some open 3's. Today Millar really struggled inside as well,going 2-8.
But regardless, its an easy win for us in the end, which is what matters most.