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1 hour ago, Clickclack said:

Scary thing is clearly brown has no answer... There is no help... Better hope lulka can help and Jojo is a division 1 player. Honestly considering our success with jucos... Jojo is another hope that will fail. 

JoJo is not a JUCO. Played 2 seasons at Northern Arizona of the Big Sky, then sat out a season at Nevada. Very different than a JUCO. He should be a big help when he comes back if the injury doesn't hurt his athleticism. 

The big problem right now is that no one on the team can hit a shot if the rim was twice the size. I have the gas can in my hand, but at the same time, it's not too far fetched to see them put it together. Q was unconscious tonight from deep. Hitting 3's that were 10 feet behind the arc. I actually didn't think the D was that bad, but when a team is that hot, even great D will look horrid in the stat sheet.

The offense is the problem right now. I was watching while bowling. I kept saying "watch this they will pass twice and shoot and miss a three" and then it would happen. A good portion of them were open, so I can't even complain about the shot selection, it just would have been better had they run the play and found a better one.

Let Healy get his first 3 to keep the streak alive, then make the statement no one shoots a three or they sit. Get back to driving to the hoop and getting to the line. A few games of that, then we can start selectively shooting from deep. 

I'm kind of glad the game isn't being broadcast tomorrow, as it pains me to watch right now. If I was Brown, I'd institute a new rule: Let Healy shoot 3s until he hits 1 to keep the streak going. After that no one is allowed to shoot a 3 (including Healy). If you shoot one, you sit.

Booooooooo

22 minutes ago, DanesRGood said:

Does that mean the games tomorrow and sunday will not be streaming?

I'll be pissed if that's the case

Might want to change this topic for the 3 games this weekend together? Not sure how much activity would be in three separate threads...

In other news, the UVM Virginia game is 24-18 at halftime with UVM losing. That's a defensive game.

I coach a 5th grade team, and this has been, by far, the ugliest half of basketball I have ever witnessed

1 minute ago, BestDaneSinceHamlet said:

I'm assuming that's a coaching/game plan decision...

 

What, give them all the opportunity to lower their shooting percentage? I get that the 3 is in style in today's game, but this is unsustainable and unwatchable. Pound the ball inside. Drive to the hoop. Collapse the defense. Then take the open 3s.

I'm not a fairweather fan, and I'll watch and go no matter if they win or lose, but part of me just wants to give up on the season and go watch a *vomit* UVM or *puke* a LCC game. 

Halfway through the first half and UA has taken 1 shot that wasn't for 3. Pathetic against a smaller D3 team. Sit everyone and use the next 5.

Tim Welsh (Jerry's son) 

Not sure, as that is before my time, but I went grew up in Potsdam, and I'll probably wear my Potsdam Stoners shirt tonight with my UA hat (Potsdam High School is the Sandstoners). 

I remember watching the powerhouse Bears teams of the 80s with Jerry Welsh coaching and Steve Babiarz starring....

https://www.si.com/vault/issue/43857/67

On a different note, didn't D3 keep the three point line at the old distance for this season? How will that work? Follow the home teams rules?

Potsdam is 3-0 right now. While they are D3 and this game "should" be an easy win and a good chance to work on stuff, they are supposed to be very good this season and could give us more trouble than anyone expects.

I'm glad I missed watching this game based on the comments. I went to the movies with the wife and we were winning 15-4 when I turned it off. 

After the movie my wife asked: how many down years in a row do you need until the message board mob starts calling for WB's head the way it calls for GGs head? 

I had to coach my son's practice tonight, so I am missing my first D1 home game in years. Only watched the second half. Is Canisius that bad this year, or did the team step up the defense?

5 hours ago, Clickclack said:

I don't get the love for Hanks...I'm not saying he hasn't grown but both he and French has horrendous offensive efficiency. Like worst remaining on the team. There's a reason they don't get much burn. Sure, try them out and see what they got but neither is a savior. 

This team has plenty of offensive efficiency, and can score in droves with only 4 on the court. My original note said I don't care how bad they shoot. Set WIDE screens. Box Out hard. Clog the lane defensively. Alter shots. All the little things that don't show in a box score. Having that big body just changes the philosophy of the other team. If the team I am playing against has their two biggest guys on the court at 6'8" and weight 220 or below, I am going to pound it inside against them all day until they prove they can block a shot, cut off the baseline, and stop me from getting the easy ones. That's exactly what happened in this game. 

I might be too much of a traditionalist, but defensively I think the team needs Hank or French to play at least 10-15 minutes a game (not each, total). There is something about a huge body clogging the lanes that makes a difference that doesn't always show in the box score.

They don't need to score. Set good screens, box out, clog the lane, and alter shots. 

Hopefully the loss is a motivation for the team to focus. Losses happen and aren't a big deal if you learn and grow from each.

Lehigh was better than expected. They lost their 3 top scorers from last season, but brought in some nice pieces. Some polls had them as high as 4th in the Patriot league. IMO this game all came down to 2 main things:

• Terrible shooting: Shot 30% from the floor for most of the game. Most of the the 3's were open looks. I didn't feel they were forcing the outside shot. Lehigh dared us to take them, and we missed. Throw in so many missed layups and easy shots and it is going to be hard to win. 
• Defensive Intensity in the half court. Lehigh had their way with with the team. We couldn't cut off the baseline for the easy lay-ins, didn't box hard enough on the defensive glass, and just looked lost on the pick and roll / give and go. It felt like Lehigh shot 75% the floor (when it was closer to 50%) 

I was impressed with the full court pressure. With the athletes and length we seem to have, I would love to see us do this for a higher percentage of the game. Especially when Anderson returns and we have another body to run.  There were definitely some positives, and that was a great run over the last 4-5 minutes. It was just too little too late to turn up the pressure. 

People have gotten on Clark for a few possessions he definitely forced, but I thought he did a real good job for the most of the game. It was when the team was down big that his hero mentality took over and the moment of the game really amplified it. I think Healy had more forced situations than Clark. I know Brown yelled at him for it and even put him on the bench for a bit because of it.  

Anyone have an update on French? He was on the bench, but in a warmup suit. 

1045 streaming app not working? Blacked out?

Refs missed a lot of easy calls in the first half, but that doesn't even make a dent in the results. I left early for the first time all year because it was so cold.

That interception that the UA defender knocked out of his own teams hands was the turning point. Can't blame him he was just trying to break up a pass, but that moment killed any momentum. After that it was a host of turnovers that turned a 2 point game into a 3 score game in a matter of minutes.

29 minutes ago, Clickclack said:

It will sort itself out...my concern going into the year is defense and rebounding. UMBC last year build their team around defense and reached the conference finals. They were infinitely better then us on the defensive end. When the chips were down they stifled us to the tune of 54 points. 

 

Watch the defensive efficiency early on in the year, it will forecast quite well what kind of team we have. 

The way I read it, they have UVM at #1 then they have a group of SBU, UMBC, and UA, and those 3 can finish in any order. SBU finished second last year, and UMBC finished 3rd, with UA moving ahead of Hartford and UML into that 2-4 tier and thats why they put them in that order.. The actual writeups show what each team needs to do to get to #2 or potentially catch UVM. I don't read into them picking UA 4th at all. 

1 hour ago, Dane Pound said:

Three Man Weave seems to believe it will be different this year since they have Clark on their first team. If he plays like a first teamer, we're going to have an awfully fun year.

Not sure that is the case. There is a legitimate argument that can be made that he should have been on the first team last season. From a fantasy basketball perspective he was the second best player in the league last year when you take into account everything - PTS/REB/AST/STL/BLK, well behind Lamb, but just ahead of Flemming and Lutete. 

Keeping his play constant should be a first team selection if it is based on stats alone as that site is very analytical. It may not mean that they think he will improve at all. 

The actual voters will take into account the shot selection and overall impression of his game. If he cleans up that stuff and changes the impression the voters have to actually get a 1st team selection, then yes: this UA team will be extremely dangerous. 

One of the more well written and researched preseason previews, regardless if you agree with their order:

https://www.three-man-weave.com/3mw/america-east-preview-2020

Thats the thing, they didn't oversell. There were more than enough open spots in the lot. The problem is tailgating groups take up 2-3 spots with 1 car in many cases. With a few thousand fans partying and having a good time in the parking lot and rows between cars, it was just impossible to get people who arrived later (after 2:30 or so) to one of the 100+ open spots without being dangerous to the people having a good time in the lot. Keeping the last 8 spots in every row tailgate free would keep over 175 parking spots with easy in and easy out. (I count 22 rows in the dutch lot that are used during football games looking at google maps satellite view).  This would have almost no effect on the tailgating, block some of the debauchery from view when on University drive, and would make everything smoother.

It doesn't matter if you care about tailgating or not, that is a BIG part of the college football experience, and is one thing that does bring in more fans. If the program continues to play well, and the attendance rises into the 6000+ per game range, tailgating will be a big part of that. 

Its a very easy and elegant solution that makes everyone happy. It just takes foresight and planning by the school. 

If 175 spots isn't enough, make it the first 15 spots. Still no effect on tailgating, and now you have reserved 330 spaces for non-tailgaters