Arizona State Pushes Past Beavers at Gill
by Jake Bertalotto on Feb 8, 2009 11:28 AM PST
in Oregon State Men's Basketball
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PrintOn a night where Arizona State looked as beatable as ever, Oregon State couldn't effectively attack the Sun Devil zone defense, and couldn't stop Jeff Pendergraph in the second half as the Sun Devils went on to defeat the Beavers 49-38 on Saturday night in front of 7,449 at Gill Coliseum.
Although only scoring on six field goal attempts in the first half, the Beavers held Jeff Pendergraph scoreless in the first 20 minutes, although ASU's Jamelle McMillan, who made his first Pac-10 start, poured in four three-point baskets in the first half.
Much like how Oregon State contained Oregon's Tajuan Porter in the second half of last week's Civil War game, the Beavers held McMillian to just two points in the second half.
But what McMillan was to the Sun Devil offense in the first half, Jeff Pendergraph was to the Arizona State offense in the second half.
The six-foot-nine Pendergraph (pictured, right) rattled off all fifteen of his points in the second half, most of them coming as a result of Oregon State taking a chance and extending their zone defense. That left Roeland Schaftenaar to play one-on-one with the NBA-bound forward.
"We were hoping (Schaftenaar) could just hang in there and handle him on his own,'' said Robinson. "I'll take partial responsibility for that.''
The Beavers handled the Sun Devils much better than they did on January 8 in Tempe, but compared to how the Beavers have been playing as of late, this game was a letdown.
From Buker's postgame report: Robinson said he was "happy with the effort, and happy with the defense but I wasn't happy with our execution and I wasn't happy with our mental toughness today. ... these guys haven't won this many games before. They don't know what to do to get that fifth win, and that's my job.''
Oregon State was led by Rickey Claitt, who scored 13 points and had three assists in the game. Roeland Schaftenaar and Lathen Wallace added nine points each. Calvin Haynes, Oregon State's usual go-to player, was held to just 2 of 8 shooting, was 0 for 4 from behind the arc, and scored just four points in his 39 minutes.
The Beavers shot a season-worst 32.6 percent from the field. Arizona State, who shot 28.1 percent from the field, had one of their worst shooting games as well.
Arizona State, who basically only played six players in the game, was led by Jeff Pendergraph with 15 points. Jamelle McMillian scored 14 points and dished out four assists.
The Beavers will now travel to Washington to play the Huskies on Thursday, and the Cougars on Saturday.
--Jake (jake.buildingthedam@gmail.com)
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I went to the game on a last minute whim...
It was OK but the missed opportunities and lack of second chance looks were lethal. Not to mention that the Beavers once again found a way to stop a go-to offensive weapon after making half time adjustments, which was by all means a positive… only catch being that they let Pendergraph get loose for double digits, scoring at least eight points during the stretch where I think everyone realized, “Hmm… not today.”
Observations…
-Gill was kinda full-ish. What was official attendance? 5K? 6K? It got pretty loud and the atmosphere continues to warm up more and more with each competitive home contest.
-The wave went down as per AC’s wishes. 99.9% of the crowd participated on some level. I noticed, however, the McMillan family (sitting behind the ASU bench with Harden’s mom) did not. Tisk-tisk, I can’t forgive you for that Nate.
-Horrible officiating is spreading from football to basketball quickly. Toward the end of the game, an ASU player was shooting a 1-1 foul shot. After missing the first, the ref caught the live ball and an OSU player (Claitt I think) had to rip it from his hands to get the ball down the court. This same ref had SEVERAL calls challenged by the rest of the crew and a few overturned. Sad state of affairs.
-The Dam needs to step it up for this team. C’mon kids. The cheers are cute but you need to not only BE loud but STAY loud. This will come with time I’m sure…
-Saw the Rodgers brothers there… the dudes are short as all hell but solid balls of muscle. I wouldn’t want to cover/tackle either one. Quizz looks like he could run through a concrete wall while towing the team bus behind him.
That’s about it. Fun afternoon in Corvallis. Anyone else make it down?
Sounds like a pretty good time
Thanks for the summary of the game and nice to hear from someone, been a bit quiet on the blog the last couple days. Yes we lost, but not totally bad games overall so still good things to look to.
From watching it on TV I agree with your assessment.
I actually thought the ref catching the rebound was kind-of funny, I’m more concerned about the calls (non-calls) but they seem to go both ways.
The Dam gets a pass this year, but yes better step up next year (especially if the team is stepping it up).
Wish I could have made it for both or either games. Would like to go to the Bay area teams games because those could be fun, but doubt I will…but who knows.
Did you record the game? They had AC on during play and he was pretty fun, he came across as very excited to be back into the tradition of Beaver basketball.
-RVM
by rvm on Feb 9, 2009 1:13 PM PST up reply actions
The VD Special?
Hey did you really agree with all four points to this comment:
I’ve paid my kudos to OSU for their progress this year. I still think they’re the 9th best team in the conference at the end. No one could convince me that’s a good basketball team. They are 1) better than they were last season; 2) better than the Ducks this season; and, 3) now coached by a guy who can definitely get the job done.
Or did you mean all three points? Or are you thinking the Beavs are really going to end up as 9th best? If yes to that second one I’m not so sure, I much doubt there will be any post-season going on this year, but thinking the team will not be that low at the end. Guess it wouldn’t surprise me but just thinking there is still some life in the team to get some more Ws this year.
-RVM
Yeah, I still think we are 9th best
The team had a nice love affair with winning, but reality hit this weekend. Poor performances in both games, absolutely awful shooting, it just reminded me too much of last year. Here’s hoping we split with the Washingtons, but don’t expect it to happen.
Also, late in the 2nd half, Arizona committed their 7th team foul, and we took it out of bounds. Does anyone have any explanation for this? It was a loose ball, over the back foul, and I couldn’t for the life of me figure out why we weren’t shooting 1 and 1.
I support Takimoto in his effort to support Roger Kieschnick in his quest to becoming the best Kieschnick ever to play professional baseball.
by The VD Special on Feb 10, 2009 3:07 PM PST up reply actions
Hmm
I’m feeling game after reading about Canzano’s insults, do you want to place a bet on this? Okay, guess we shouldn’t “bet,” so I’ll say the Beavs finish either 6th-7th best in the Pac this year and if you confirm your pick of finishing 9th best we can then publicly humiliate the “loser” prediction in March.
What do you say?
:)
-RVM
got a taker!
Actually not a bad bet in reality. All in all I probably went a bit high, but hey it’s out there now so no turning back!
-RVM
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Washington St. Cougars
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