Phil Pressey

February 22, 2013

In the aftermath of Missouri’s 63-60 win over Florida on Tuesday, Florida coach Billy Donovan nearly fell all over himself complimenting MU junior point guard Phil Pressey.

“The guy I was really, really impressed with Pressey,” Donovan said. “I thought he really did a terrific job of running his team. He got the ball where it needed to go and made the game easy for everybody else. I thought he really played within himself.”

Pressey has been a lightning rod for criticism, thanks to his frantic, up-and-down play that has often vacillated between virtuoso and self-destructive. So when I heard Donovan’s comment, I simply couldn’t help it; I had to dive back into the film room and take another look at Pressey’s performance, just to see if this was really true or just typical lip service.

What I saw, I must admit, was impressive. For all Pressey’s faults — he was skewered for his late-game shot-selection/turnovers in road losses to LSU, Texas A&M and Arkansas — he was excellent down the stretch against Florida.

Over the last 16 minutes of the game, Pressey had five points, seven assists and (most importantly) zero turnovers. I also charted him taking just one bad shot. His final line (seven points, 10 assists) included five turnovers, which are still entirely too many for a point guard — in SEC play, he’s averaging a league-leading 4.2 per game. But his performance as a whole was a 180-degree turn from his two-point, six-assist, 10-turnover effort in Missouri’s embarrassing 83-52 loss to the Gators on Jan. 19 in Gainesville.

“I thought he was, at our place, crazy,” Donovan said. “I know he turned it over five times (tonight), but a lot of that had to do with we gave him a lot of coverage on a lot of pick-and-roll action.”

Donovan noted that that coverage stopped being effective around the middle of the second half, when Missouri — which trailed 49-36 — outscored the Gators 27-11 the rest of the way. Much of this had to do with Pressey, who efficiently navigated pick-and-rolls and found open teammates in the second half.

“For the last 10 minutes our pick-and-roll coverage on Pressey was not great,” Donovan said. “It was really, really good for 30 minutes…(but) Pressey got loose on pick-and-rolls and made the game easy for everybody else around him.”

from: http://www.kansascity.com/2013/02/22/4080738/mu-film-room-visual-evidence-to.html#storylink=cpy

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Phil Pressey was born on February 17th, 1991 according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Pressey

February 17th, 1991

2 + 17 +1+9+9+1 = 39 = his life lesson = Dream come true. A nice guy.

Knight of Cups Tarot card

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February 17th, 1991

2 + 17 = 19 = his core number = It’s my time to shine. Proud of my hard earned success. Front and center.

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February 17th, 1991

17 +1+9+9+1 = 37 = his “secret” number = Playing his heart out. Pouring his heart into it. Deeply emotional.

King of Cups Tarot card

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February 17th, 1991

February 17th

2 + 17 +2+0+1+3 = 25 = his personal year (from February 17th, 2013 to February 16th, 2014) = Excitement. Thrilling. Rooting for the underdog.

Knight of Wands Tarot card

25 year + 3 (March) = 28 = his personal year (from March 17th, 2013 to April 16th, 2013) = Hero. Nothing is impossible.

Two of Wands Tarot card

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using the number/letter grid:

1      2    3       4       5       6     7    8     9
A      B   C      D      E       F      G     H      I
J   K    L      M      N     O   P    Q R
S     T      U      V     W     X      Y    Z

Where:

A = 1 J = 1 S = 1

B = 2 K = 2 T = 2

C = 3 L = 3 U = 3

D = 4 M = 4 V = 4

E = 5 N = 5 W = 5

F = 6 O = 6 X = 6

G = 7 P = 7 Y = 7

H = 8 Q = 8 Z = 8

I = 9 R = 9

Phil Pressey

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