[MBB] Game #18: 1/16/19 - 7:00PM @ UMass Lowell

[uofalbany]

We will be lucky to have a team good enough to compete for a championship even next year.  

[Eli]

1 minute ago, nysteve661 said:

Gonna go out on a limb fellas.   The entire coaching staff is former players at UA and played for CB.  Is it possible that we could use coaches from different programs and coaches to give a different prospective to practice, recruiting, play calling,and maybe tell CB something different than what he has heard for 18 years?  I know Coach K has some former players on staff usually but Duke is not UA.  Thoughts?

I do agree with this. While I love giving young guys opportunities...there has to be a balance. I don't know if ANY of our guys (even Iati) is full-time HC material yet...we need someone like that as the primary backup to Brown.

[Eli]

Opponent	Type	LOC	ATN	PTS		FGM		FGA		FG%		3PTM		3PTA		3PT%		FTM		FTA		FT%		REB		AST		STL		BLK		TO		FOUL	
Canisius	OOC	Away	1540	75	66	25	23	47	60	53.2%	38.3%	8	6	18	30	44.4%	20.0%	17	14	25	25	68.0%	56.0%	37	32	17	12	5	11	1	2	18	8	19	24
Oneonta		OOC	Home	1659	79	62	30	24	63	62	47.6%	38.7%	7	9	22	24	31.8%	37.5%	12	5	16	8	75.0%	62.5%	45	32	14	16	8	9	2	6	17	19	13	20
Monmouth	OOC	Home	1902	82	63	21	24	46	60	45.7%	40.0%	14	5	29	20	48.3%	25.0%	26	10	30	19	86.7%	52.6%	27	40	15	10	7	7	4	1	16	18	19	24
Manhattan	OOC	Home	1412	77	67	20	27	40	58	50.0%	46.6%	9	6	20	18	45.0%	33.3%	28	7	35	13	80.0%	53.8%	33	24	16	18	7	11	4	2	19	13	18	27
Niagara		OOC	Away	829	79	74	29	22	64	60	45.3%	36.7%	10	8	28	22	35.7%	36.4%	11	22	13	30	84.6%	73.3%	40	37	13	8	6	4	0	6	12	8	22	17
																																			
Tot. W				7342	392	332	125	120	260	300	48.1%	40.0%	48	34	117	114	41.0%	29.8%	94	58	119	95	79.0%	61.1%	182	165	75	64	33	42	11	17	82	66	91	112
Avg. W				1468.4	78.4	66.4	25.0	24.0	52.0	60.0	48.4%	40.1%	9.6	6.8	23.4	22.8	41.1%	30.4%	18.8	11.6	23.8	19.0	78.9%	59.7%	36.4	33.0	15.0	12.8	6.6	8.4	2.2	3.4	16.4	13.2	18.2	22.4
																																			
UAlbany Losses																																			
** Albany stats are the left side in each grouping **																																			
Opponent	Type	LOC	ATN	PTS		FGM		FGA		FG%		3PTM		3PTA		3PT%		FTM		FTA		FT%		REB		AST		STL		BLK		TO		FOUL	
Iona		OOC	Away	1871	68	72	21	25	58	57	36.2%	43.9%	11	6	24	25	45.8%	24.0%	15	16	16	25	93.8%	64.0%	39	34	10	16	0	12	0	2	22	13	20	16
Boston Univ.	OOC	Home	2579	61	71	20	28	59	55	33.9%	50.9%	5	10	20	22	25.0%	45.5%	16	5	22	11	72.7%	45.5%	33	40	14	18	7	3	3	4	8	14	13	21
Holy Cross	OOC	Home	1614	65	69	23	26	63	56	36.5%	46.4%	10	5	28	17	35.7%	29.4%	9	12	14	20	64.3%	60.0%	45	32	16	18	5	6	1	7	15	9	22	12
UW-Milwaukee	OOC	Away	952	70	79	23	31	59	53	39.0%	58.5%	10	12	30	21	33.3%	57.1%	14	5	17	7	82.4%	71.4%	28	32	12	19	7	1	2	4	8	12	9	14
LIU Brooklyn	OOC	Neutral	-	77	80	25	26	56	63	44.6%	41.3%	6	11	22	28	27.3%	39.3%	21	17	27	22	77.8%	77.3%	42	32	10	13	6	10	5	6	26	16	24	21
Dartmouth	OOC	Neutral	-	77	91	26	30	61	57	42.6%	52.6%	6	17	22	33	27.3%	51.5%	19	14	23	21	82.6%	66.7%	30	37	11	21	8	6	0	4	11	15	16	21
Yale		OOC	Away	904	63	71	23	29	60	54	38.3%	53.7%	8	4	26	14	30.8%	28.6%	9	9	13	22	69.2%	40.9%	32	40	15	19	6	4	1	2	11	13	19	16
Dartmouth	OOC	Home	1740	52	61	18	22	60	53	30.0%	41.5%	8	7	24	24	33.3%	29.2%	8	10	14	16	57.1%	62.5%	32	45	7	15	4	1	2	4	5	11	16	18
Providence	OOC	Away	4855	43	73	15	24	50	57	30.0%	42.1%	6	6	25	18	24.0%	33.3%	7	19	13	24	53.8%	79.2%	31	42	5	12	6	9	2	4	22	14	27	17
Kent State	OOC	Away	2114	68	70	24	24	53	60	45.3%	40.0%	8	6	23	22	34.8%	27.3%	12	16	15	20	80.0%	80.0%	39	28	9	10	2	10	3	5	17	6	18	15
Vermont		AE	Home	2733	51	80	19	31	54	57	35.2%	54.4%	5	10	21	26	23.8%	38.5%	8	8	11	13	72.7%	61.5%	26	39	10	17	9	5	2	4	12	12	16	15
Maine		AE	Home	1793	62	66	20	22	49	51	40.8%	43.1%	11	12	30	28	36.7%	42.9%	11	10	20	13	55.0%	76.9%	33	30	13	17	6	10	1	5	14	12	15	16
Umass-Lowell	AE	Away	650	72	84	27	31	55	53	49.1%	58.5%	8	8	22	19	36.4%	42.1%	8	14	9	16	88.9%	87.5%	25	28	12	14	4	3	1	3	13	9	18	17
																																			
Tot. L	OOC			16629	644	737	218	265	579	565	37.7%	46.9%	78	84	244	224	32.0%	37.5%	130	123	174	188	74.7%	65.4%	351	362	109	161	51	62	19	42	145	123	184	171
	AE			5176	185	230	66	84	158	161	41.8%	52.2%	24	30	73	73	32.9%	41.1%	27	32	40	42	67.5%	76.2%	84	97	35	48	19	18	4	12	39	33	49	48
																																			
Avg. L	OOC			1662.9	64.4	73.7	21.8	26.5	57.9	56.5	37.7%	46.9%	7.8	8.4	24.4	22.4	32.0%	37.5%	13.0	12.3	17.4	18.8	74.7%	65.4%	35.1	36.2	10.9	16.1	5.1	6.2	1.9	4.2	14.5	12.3	18.4	17.1
	AE			1725.3	61.7	76.7	22.0	28.0	52.7	53.7	41.8%	52.2%	8.0	10.0	24.3	24.3	32.9%	41.1%	9.0	10.7	13.3	14.0	67.5%	76.2%	28.0	32.3	11.7	16.0	6.3	6.0	1.3	4.0	13.0	11.0	16.3	16.0
																																			
Tot. L				21805	829	967	284	349	737	726	38.5%	48.1%	102	114	317	297	32.2%	38.4%	157	155	214	230	73.4%	67.4%	435	459	144	209	70	80	23	54	184	156	233	219
Avg. L				1677.3	63.8	74.4	21.8	26.8	56.7	55.8	38.6%	48.2%	7.8	8.8	24.4	22.8	31.9%	37.6%	12.1	11.9	16.5	17.7	73.1%	67.2%	33.5	35.3	11.1	16.1	5.4	6.2	1.8	4.2	14.2	12.0	17.9	16.8
																																			
Tot. (all)			29147	1221	1299	409	469	997	1026	41.0%	45.7%	150	148	434	411	34.6%	36.0%	251	213	333	325	75.4%	65.5%	617	624	219	273	103	122	34	71	266	222	324	331
Avg. (all)			1619.3	67.8	72.2	22.7	26.1	55.4	57.0	41.3%	46.0%	8.3	8.2	24.1	22.8	34.4%	35.6%	13.9	11.8	18.5	18.1	74.7%	65.1%	34.3	34.7	12.2	15.2	5.7	6.8	1.9	3.9	14.8	12.3	18.0	18.4
			LOC	ATN	PTS		FGM		FGA		FG%		3PTM		3PTA		3PT%		FTM		FTA		FT%		REB		AST		STL		BLK		TO		FOUL	

 

[DanesRGood]

2 minutes ago, nysteve661 said:

Gonna go out on a limb fellas.   The entire coaching staff is former players at UA and played for CB.  Is it possible that we could use coaches from different programs and coaches to give a different prospective to practice, recruiting, play calling,and maybe tell CB something different than what he has heard for 18 years?  I know Coach K has some former players on staff usually but Duke is not UA.  Thoughts?

I do think losing Chad Odonnell hurt the program's recruiting a bit. 

 

 

[uofalbany]

The Gattuso Effect

[nysteve661]

Just now, uofalbany said:

The Gattuso Effect

Please, I hope not.  That means Marr is next.😫😫

[UA'08]

We always here it all comes down to three games in March. As of tonight it wouldn’t matter cause we’d be the 9th team out. 

[UA'08]

7 minutes ago, nysteve661 said:

Gonna go out on a limb fellas.   The entire coaching staff is former players at UA and played for CB.  Is it possible that we could use coaches from different programs and coaches to give a different prospective to practice, recruiting, play calling,and maybe tell CB something different than what he has heard for 18 years?  I know Coach K has some former players on staff usually but Duke is not UA.  Thoughts?

My point exactly of of getting too comfortable. Who’s there to really give a different opinion to coach. There’s no comparison with Duke and Albany programs.

[UA1882]

Bad team. But the young excuse can no longer be used. WHY?

Because we were beaten by double digits by a team starting 2 freshman, 1 sophomore,  and a jr. Also a freshman on the bench averaging over 10 a game.

We need another roster overhaul of at least 2-3 guys over the 2 that are graduating.  

We knew we would be bad. But we are really really bad. 

[Eli]

5 minutes ago, UA1882 said:

Bad team. But the young excuse can no longer be used. WHY?

Because we were beaten by double digits by a team starting 2 freshman, 1 sophomore,  and a jr. Also a freshman on the bench averaging over 10 a game.

We need another roster overhaul of at least 2-3 guys over the 2 that are graduating.  

We knew we would be bad. But we are really really bad. 

Wouldn't be surprised if some guys like Brooks, etc. get replaced or leave on their own accord due to not getting playing time.

We'll have around 4 new guys next year me thinks.

[Dane Pound]

All I can really say is...

This doesn't reflect well on the MAAC at all.

[McFan]

I'm not sure I can get on board w/ the "we had to pick players off the scrap pile" as a reason for what's happening.  We started the season w/ 3 guys that would have been starting w/ or w/o Cremo and Nichols.  Clark has basically stepped in as Nichols?  So Healy had to replace Cremo and we'd need to live w/ a depleted bench.  Well, outside of a few games, our bigs (including Campbell as a starting small forward to start the season) just aren't very good.  And don't give me Lulka's numbers.  I watch the games.  He's not very good.  He's played a lot of ball and even redshirted so I'm not sure how much he will improve.  Campbell is Campbell.  And Hanks???  He was a projected starter from the start right?  Unless we went small.  

So yes, recruiting doesn't seem to be there lately.  I've said it before and I'll say it again, I don't think athletic players want to play the style of ball that we play.  Obviously the style gets a pass when we are winning but it's not exciting to watch or play in my opinion.

So no this isn't a "fire WB" statement but it is a WB doesn't get a pass just because he lost Cremo and Nichols.  Recruiting isn't up to par and this performance is awful.  Did I expect a down year?  Of course.  But this is a terrible conference that UA with it's reputation should not finish below 5th place, ever.  

[DanesRGood]

3 minutes ago, McFan said:

I'm not sure I can get on board w/ the "we had to pick players off the scrap pile" as a reason for what's happening.  We started the season w/ 3 guys that would have been starting w/ or w/o Cremo and Nichols.  Clark has basically stepped in as Nichols?  So Healy had to replace Cremo and we'd need to live w/ a depleted bench.  Well, outside of a few games, our bigs (including Campbell as a starting small forward to start the season) just aren't very good.  And don't give me Lulka's numbers.  I watch the games.  He's not very good.  He's played a lot of ball and even redshirted so I'm not sure how much he will improve.  Campbell is Campbell.  And Hanks???  He was a projected starter from the start right?  Unless we went small.  

So yes, recruiting doesn't seem to be there lately.  I've said it before and I'll say it again, I don't think athletic players want to play the style of ball that we play.  Obviously the style gets a pass when we are winning but it's not exciting to watch or play in my opinion.

So no this isn't a "fire WB" statement but it is a WB doesn't get a pass just because he lost Cremo and Nichols.  Recruiting isn't up to par and this performance is awful.  Did I expect a down year?  Of course.  But this is a terrible conference that UA with it's reputation should not finish below 5th place, ever.  

This is a fair post, except for Lulka.  I do not think is he bad. I think he is young and learning. Sam Rowley stunk his freshman year. And I don't care about redshirt years. Different than playing games on the court. Definitely looks like some big misses on the recruiting trail at this point though. Only time will tell.  I just don't think Brown would say stuff like, "I think we are going to be REALLY good" if he thought his roster sucked. I know, what's he going to say? Well, not that they are going to be REALLY good. I would think he would say something like, we have to fight to get better with a young squad blah blah... 

[UA_MA_2000]

54 minutes ago, Eli said:

I do agree with this. While I love giving young guys opportunities...there has to be a balance. I don't know if ANY of our guys (even Iati) is full-time HC material yet...we need someone like that as the primary backup to Brown.

We seemed to be at our best with Pat Filien and Chad O'Donnell.

But seriously, time to let the head trainer go. All staff on the hot seat! (lol)

Edited January 17, 2019 by UA_MA_2000

[Clickclack]

This team is 3 d1 kids... This roster is an absolute disaster young or not. I don't know how you run half the roster off but it needs to happen. 

 

Lulka Clark and Healey are the only ones worth anything on this team. Rest of roster absolute trash. Including highly touted rizzuto and de Sousa. This is by far worse then expected this isn't a rebuild... This is an absolute dumpster fire. 

 

There is no future for this team as constituted... Need a complete overhaul. None of them... Not a single one can play a lick of defense. This program is an emberassment, just got worked by a really young team to the tune of 50 second half points. And none of them show any fire or outrage. Disgusting....