UA @ ISU (GAME THREAD!)

[LETS GO DANES!]

Congratulations to Brent Wilson on his 1,000th Career Point

[JustDrastik]

And that spin move pass to Ambrose from Covington was impressive as hell.

[albanyhoops31]

Get the ball to Covington. We did that one time and he made a nice move, and a pass to Ambrose for the score. Lets work inside to out. It'll open up the 3 ball. We've seen some terrible shots every time down the floor for the past 5 minutes since those two buckets. There is still enough time to comeback, get the ball to Turley and Covington and let them kick it back out to Iati, Wilson, Ambrose and Martin. Right now, the offensive sets that are being run have done nothing.

[JustDrastik]

<3 Josh Martin. It's nice to see some INTENSITY.

[Dane Pound]

2nd TV sighting of Bob87 this year. At Duke and now at ISU.

 

Nice little freshman generated run here.

[albanyhoops31]

Finally working inside to outside. And we are getting open shots!

 

I just do not know if we have enough this late......

[JustDrastik]

We need to play our best basketball the rest of the way. Down 15, with 6:13 to go. It's a shame because we put together some very good runs. We just need more consistency. The problem seems to be that we go through massive scoring droughts of huge chunks of time.

 

Just as I write this, we are now down by 10.

[albanyhoops31]

We make a lot of our open shots, problem is, we don't seem to get that many open shots, at least tonight. The competition is better then usual though, so that's probably the reason.

[olddog71]

The difference in this game is getting to the foul line. IS has received twice as many foul shot opportuniities as UA. They have made 10 more shots than us.

 

We need to get to the basket more frequently.

[JustDrastik]

Agreed olddog.

[albanyhoops31]

Yep, agreed. There have been some real ticy-tac fouls in this game too.

 

We just need that one guy who can take over the game scoring guy. Without Siggers and J. Wilson, we lack that.

[JustDrastik]

I think we will be fine without a "go-to" guy, BUT we do need more consistency and we can't just GIVE AWAY offensive sets. I think we might succeed by shortening up our bench/rotation. Brown started to do this with Hastings and I'd like to see it extend to Giff and also see some of Iati's minutes go down further. He had a decent game tonight but on defense there isn't much there and while he is a 3 pt. threat, he forces some shots sometimes. Covington is clearly a more complete college player than Gifford. Once again, a tough loss but one we were competitive in until the end. Keep in mind - only 3 seniors on this team, 2 who get a majority of playing time. SCARY. Didn't want to be 5-7 going into conference play - I thought 6-6 would be realistic, but that's a 1 game difference and i'll take it. Hopefully we can win most of our conference schedule.

[UAalum72]

Difference was 16 turnovers to 10, 24-30 FT vs. 10-16. We outrebounded ISU 38-32. If you discount the fouling at the end, the FT difference wasn't that great, but ISU shot 80%.

 

Attendance of 13330 was our largest crowd of the year.

[JustDrastik]

With the exception of the end of the game, where we committed a few turnovers in the last few minutes, we seemed to do much better with the ball this game. However, nonetheless, there were several bad traveling calls, most notably against Turley. One of our main problems lies in that we really don't get to the line often. If Ambrose plays more consistently, this will deifnately help and against lower tier competition in the AE, we should do better. ISU shot 14 more free throws than us. This is killing us because we go through BIG droughts of scoring. It seems at times, teams go on runs, or rather we just don't score for a few minutes at a time, and we find ourselves clawing back. If we could get to the line more, stop the clock, add some easy points and keep the scoring more constant, it would help a ton. This would ensure at least, that we wouldn't have teams going on 10-0 runs.

 

How long before Turley or Coginton start?

[Dane96]

I suspect Turley will be the starter come conference time. Kid looked awesome.