define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true); define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', true); Saint John’s – Rush The Court http://rushthecourt.net The Independent Voice of College Basketball Tue, 06 Feb 2018 20:15:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.9 http://rushthecourt.net http://rushthecourt.net/wp-content/mbp-favicon/RTC.jpg Rush The Court Has St. John’s Figured Out an Offense? http://rushthecourt.net/2018/02/06/has-st-johns-figured-out-an-offense/ http://rushthecourt.net/2018/02/06/has-st-johns-figured-out-an-offense/#respond Tue, 06 Feb 2018 20:21:51 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/?p=132310

Make no mistake about it, the St. John’s offense is average at best. Its 1.06 points per possession (160th nationally) showing is propped up by decent free throw shooting and a remarkably low turnover rate, but nothing else from three-point shooting to scoring inside to rebounding, is commensurate with the team’s preseason expectations. So while the Red Storm’s stout interior defense and the scoring antics of sophomore guard Shamorie Ponds (20.3 PPG) have kept St. John’s competitive, an 0-11 Big East record tells the full story of its shortcomings.

Shamorie Ponds Lit Up Duke Over the Weekend (USA Today Images)

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Chris Johnson is an RTC Columnist. He can be reached @ChrisDJohnsonn.

Tonight’s Lede. Conference Tournaments, Y’all. The first conference tournament of 2013 slipped under the radar. If you missed it – and no one’s scolding you for passing on the opening round of the Big South Tournament – you can be forgiven. The smallest minnows of the mid-major world are long conditioned to early-round negligence in their conference tournaments. Just promise me one thing: When the mid-major tourney bombardment begins in earnest tomorrow, for the rest of the week and leading up until the Power Six tourneys, you will at least [...]]]> http://rushthecourt.net/2013/03/06/atb-more-uncertainty-atop-the-big-ten-a-mini-brawl-at-purcell-pavilion-and-d-j-coopers-immense-achievement/feed/ 0