{"id":137353,"date":"2015-03-20T19:45:02","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T23:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pennstatehoops.com\/?p=137353"},"modified":"2015-03-20T19:45:02","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T23:45:02","slug":"jones-about-patrick-chambers-contract-extension-and-why-sandy-barbour-was-smart-to-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pennstatehoops.com\/pennstatehoops-com-has-ceased-operations\/jones-about-patrick-chambers-contract-extension-and-why-sandy-barbour-was-smart-to-do-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Jones: About Patrick Chambers’ contract extension and why Sandy Barbour was smart to do it"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"About<\/a><\/p>\n

Dave Jones:<\/p>\n

1. Chambers and his staff are showing signs of really being able to recruit.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The class just signed in the fall, including 4-star big guard Josh Reaves and 4-star power forward Mike Watkins and 3-star Lithuanian wing bomber Deividas Zemgulis has the look of a difference-maker. I’m hearing raves about Reaves in particular of the sort I heard about Talor Battle back in 2007 – total package of terrific player and leadership personality.<\/p>\n

When your staff puts in the leg work to build relationships up and down the vital I-95 corridor and then that work starts bearing fruit, it’s tough to pull the plug. It would be even a better sign had not Reaves’ Oak Hill Academy teammate Joe Hampton from the 2015 class not backed out of his verbal last month.<\/p>\n

2. The Nittany Lions played hard through the end of the season despite the results.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Usually you see some sort of dysfunction by March when a team endures as much losing as Penn State did. But the fact that the Nits played a lot of their best basketball in their last four games says something to how the players at least have bought in to what Chambers is selling.<\/p>\n

Penn State went 3-1 from the last regular-season game through three games in the Big Ten tournament. During that period, they really emptied the tank in what could have been viewed as a hopeless situation. Significantly, they did so after Barbour gave Chambers a pair of public votes of confidence, one after the Lions’ worst game of the year – a 60-39 loss at Northwestern.<\/p>\n

3. Penn State has not played defense this consistently and well since the Bruce Parkhill era.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That means something because it’s a constant, a base to work from that doesn’t fluctuate. It’s why PSU was so close in so many games.<\/p>\n

The Lions were ranked 54th in defensive efficiency among the nation’s 351 Division I teams, 7th of 14 in the Big Ten, by Ken Pomeroy’s tempo-free stats. They did this while playing the fastest pace in the Big Ten.<\/p>\n

Strictly speaking, one has nothing to do with the other. But only from a standpoint of personality, you don’t often see a team that plays up-tempo on offense and still locks down every possession on defense.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Dave Jones: 1. Chambers and his staff are showing signs of really being able to recruit. The class just signed in the fall, including 4-star big guard Josh Reaves and 4-star power forward Mike Watkins and 3-star Lithuanian wing bomber Deividas Zemgulis has the look of a difference-maker. I’m hearing raves about Reaves in particular … <\/p>\n

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