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[MBB] Game #13: 12/20/18 - 7PM vs Manhattan


Eli

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14 hours ago, Eli said:

They should have tried that fierce Hawaiian (I think?) ritual dance thing. Maybe that would have helped.

Someone in my section said that as well hah.

That's exactly what I thought they were going to do. The Haka from the Maori in New Zealand.

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10 hours ago, dslyank said:

Not to butter up the boss here, but I have too agree with DP. I thought UA played pretty well overall [still to many to's and stone hands] and competed with a team playing ugly and as "desperate" for a win as us. Coach sounded almost "giddy" with praise and enthusiasm after the game. I would not go that far, but knowing Brown, I think he was just trying to instill/hope this game brings some confidence going forward.

"Ugly" and "Manhattan basketball" seem to be synonymous. They pretty much clutch and grab for 40 minutes and dare the officials to call a foul. Just about every other team they've played as described the game as ugly.

The encouraging things I saw:

The new starting 5 - Clark, Healy, Rizz, Lulka and Hank.  Hank isn't a scorer but the other 4 are.

Off the bench Lauderdale is probably our best offensive big aside from Lulka. Bringing him in the same time as Devonte keeps four scorers on the floor since Devonte isn't really a scorer.

Devonte didn't pout. About getting moved to the bench. He did a bunch of the little things like bring the ball up while #22 for Manhattan dug his elbow into his side all the way up the floor.

Sign of life for DeSousa. No turnovers and no real big mistakes. The first time he caught the ball down low he was a little passive. The second time he caught it, he took it right to the rim. More of the second one, please.

We moved the ball. On offense we weren't just waiting for Ahmad to do something (mostly.)

Lulka getting the ball more. Good things tended to happen when he had it. Made some nice passes in the post.

Take all of that with a grain of salt since it's Manhattan, but still. We had some semblance of structure that we haven't had.

The discouraging:

The ball still stopped too much in the half court.

Every time we were up 5 or 6 points with the ball and could give ourselves some breathing room, we made some awful play

 

 

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