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1 minute ago, Clickclack said:

 

 

Siena assistant...woof...

Don't know too much about him but if we're looking at Siena assistants????

3 minutes ago, GreatDanes06 said:

Listen...if you want this to be about production on the court, I'm all about having that type of talk and debate those merits. However, from what I have seen online and from people here, this smells a lot like it has less to do with production.

No insider info here but safe to assume it's both and production makes it acceptable.  If it's only personality clashes and UA was winning this doesn't happen.

As a long term fan I have mixed emotions.  WB had some great years here and produced by all accounts high level, high character student-athletes.  For that he's to be commended and thanked.  

Is Benson great/awful?  He seems to not have a lot of fans.  Are our facilities up to par?  Absolutely not.

That said, this program is stale and was trending downward.  Outside of Rizutto no 4 year recruits had even a moderate impact on this season.  Reasons and excuses are fine but over time this falls on the Head Coach.  Add the contract situation into this (and an apparent personality conflict) it was time. 

Will seemed like a good guy and nobody likes to see somebody lose their job but he was well compensated for a long time.  His son was born and raised in one location.  In the coaching profession that is extremely rare.  Realistic or not, results matter, even at this level.  And the results have not been good lately.  

2 fouls and the lead so Rizzuto stayed in the bench.

5-3 since St. Joe’s.  Mostly better results.  Unlike earlier in the year I view yesterday’s game as the outlier.  It was a disaster mainly due to just horrible shooting.  Today was a nice bounce back.  Not perfect but a win and the offense was solid.   

Write this one off but not sure how you don’t try something different.  I’m no big Lulka or Healy (this year) but they got no run at all. Taylor was the only guy to seem to show up today.

Start chucking 3’s.  Get Healy some looks.

13 minutes ago, Dane Pound said:

They can keep clogging the middle because we can't hit diddly from outside.

Rizzuto is a tidy 3-15 (1-9 from 3).  Our starting guards are 3-20

Wow, not what I expected.  How does our offense go from what they’ve been doing the last handful of games to this?

Golubs, Wright’s (SI Group), Dakes (Stewart’s), Standish (Albany Int), Breyo (Ayco/Goldman Sachs) and a few large local developers would be in the lead pack.  Nobody remotely approaching Alfond family.

There’s an Amy Goldman Fowler in Rhinebeck that has a $3.1B net worth. Anybody have any connections?

It's not perfect but the pace that the team is playing at is much improved to my eye, and it seems to be working.  A couple of really bad halves but the last handful of games have generally been much better.  I think we have guys (especially when we are fully stocked) that can push the ball.  Hopefully we can keep it up.

Gotta admit I missed it.  Thought all games were Saturday and Sunday.

13 minutes ago, godanesgo99 said:

Up 20+ with 5 minutes left. I hope Brown can give more than 90 seconds of PT to a bunch of guys expected to contribute this year. JoJo? Shafer? Hank?

Given the progress made over the last couple of weeks w/o these guys I’m not sure that there are any expectations from these three at this point.  

87 points in the last two halves and out scored them by 25.  Playing w urgency.  Throwing a press in once in a while and pushing the ball.

Back to back games in the 80’s.  Am I wrong or was there a real change in style on the offensive end of the court?  Or is NJIT just a really nice matchup for us?

If they keep blowing the whistle at this pace there will be a lot of foul shots.

Something different?  36 points even though we were 1-9 from three.  Pushing the ball a bit.  Taking shots when available instead of waiting so deep in the shot clock.  Keeping players on the bench that offer ZERO offensively.  
 

We’ll see if WB can stomach some TO’s and poor shot selection (although there hasn’t been a lot of it).

Did I just see 45 points in a half?

Early shots but generally good shots.  I like earlier shot clock shots.

SJ’s has played a lot of quality teams but the lowest amount of points they allowed prior to us was 83.  We mustered a whopping 64.  And not to beat the dead horse but that’s part of the big problem and has been for years.  It’s boring.  Maybe there’s some nuanced changes but the offense is the same.  It’s boring for us and it’s boring for the players. If you’re a dynamic offensive player would you come here to play?  What’s the pitch? Hey we’ll do 15 dribble handoffs 20+ feet from the hoop, try the slip screen 15 times and then hope someone gets open before the shot clock expires.  We won’t press.  We won’t run.  No thanks.

If we’re going to keep losing at least entertain me.  Score the ball.  2 points in the final 5:35 of that game.  TWO.  Zero in the final 2:38.  
 

We got 13 minutes and 4 points from our freshman and sophomores combined.  

Did I miss any earlier mention of the Amica head injury?

To be fair I don’t think people are coming to that conclusion based on 3 games.

So in our three games we've had one where we didn't have a PG on the floor to push the ball up the floor w/ less than 10 seconds left (after foul shots so we could have subbed even w/o a timeout) and another where we didn't foul early (30 seconds) and when we did we fouled one of their better shooters?

Amica probably plays too fast for our “offense”???

Seriously would really like to know.  

We all saw it but I’m not sure it jumps out: 10 points in the last 11:44, from 6:33 left to 1:46 zero points.  You can’t win games this way.  And yes it looks way too familiar.