SMU 12/20 8:00

[UAalum72]

Well we played pretty good for 32 minutes.

[Dane Pound]

New rule says you can't lean in to get the foul...

Unless you went to Duke.

[MRSGDG]

Free Throw attempts

 

UA 4-5

SMU 13-24

 

Wonder when the last time a team got that many more FT attempts than us and we got that few.

[Dane Pound]

Hard to believe Ojeleye didn't get playing time at Duke. 28 points on just 15 shots tonight.

 

That zone they threw at us cost us a couple of wasted trips and then we stopped running our offense for a while. Learn and move on.

[UA'08]

Free Throw attempts

 

UA 4-5

SMU 13-24

 

Wonder when the last time a team got that many more FT attempts than us and we got that few.

23 of our 51 fg attempts were from 3. Took a lot of long 2s as well. Not going to get many ft attempts like that

[UA'08]

David is 4-12...need him to produce as our PG.

Cremo was 5/12. Not sure what you have against Nichols

 

Nichols had 5 assists. Plays as hard as anyone one on the team. I'll take the aggressive mistakes he makes.

Edited December 21, 2016 by UA'08

[Phoenix]

 

David is 4-12...need him to produce as our PG.

Cremo was 5/12. Not sure what you have against Nichols

 

Nichols had 5 assists. Plays as hard as anyone one on the team. I'll take the aggressive mistakes he makes.

 

 

Cremo was 5-10 until he put up a couple 3FGA in the last few seconds of the game.

 

I think it's just decision-making for Nichols at this point..realizing he's still just a sophomore..and is playing what's really his first season. You need someone who's never afraid to take a shot..but will need to learn when it's ok to force it and when it's not. He's got a good mid-range game..but I thought he took many contested long two-pointer jumpers in traffic when his drive got cut off. Lowest scoring shot in basketball. We need his outside shot to start dropping too..as I'm sure it will open the lane just a bit for him.

 

The team played 30+ minutes of very good basketball. Solid defense and had enough shots falling on the offensive side. Too bad it ended up being an 18 point game..didn't show how close the game was for that long. If we play like that during conference season..we'll win a lot of games.

Edited December 21, 2016 by Phoenix

[dslyank]

Free Throw attempts

 

UA 4-5

SMU 13-24

 

Wonder when the last time a team got that many more FT attempts than us and we got that few.

 

Big 5 conference on the road. I did not expect us to get too many calls go our way. But I also expected some honest calls and ref's to check the monitors when out of position or unsure. Flagrant on Nichols was as bogus as they come & even the local announcers said so. Same with smu slipped & fell call; in fact this actually also happened on a rebound play where the smu guy slipped & fell and the ref's called a foul on UA & basically did not even know who to call it on. Someone commented the ref's were bored. I am not saying we would have won this game, but I would have loved to see what would have happened if the ref' showed some belief that UA had a chance. I do not think smu took us lightly, but the officiating certainly seemed to.

Edited December 21, 2016 by dslyank

[Eli]

Stupid game. Just finished watching it. Refs were a joke...I'd be thrown out of SEFCU if I witnessed some of those calls live. They'd (refs) never hear the end of it. Even the ESPN guys were calling them 'proximity fouls'...WTH is that?

[Eli]

Oh yeah, and here is my updated stat tracker...

UAlbany Wins																								
** Albany stats are the left side in each grouping **																								
Opponent	FGM		FGA		FG%		FTM		FTA		FT%		3PTM		3PTA		3PT%		RBG		AST		TO	
Penn State	30	27	61	63	49.2%	42.9%	20	18	25	22	80.0%	81.8%	7	9	14	25	50.0%	36.0%	43	26	16	9	15	12
Oneonta*	38	20	81	71	46.9%	28.2%	16	11	25	13	64.0%	84.6%	5	5	12	27	41.7%	18.5%	69	31	15	11	12	13
Brown	        26	25	52	59	50.0%	42.4%	22	21	28	29	78.6%	72.4%	6	5	14	20	42.9%	25.0%	37	28	9	13	18	8
Siena	        27	23	52	49	51.9%	46.9%	21	19	32	25	65.6%	76.0%	6	7	12	22	50.0%	31.8%	29	31	15	11	6	11
Marist	        26	25	60	51	43.3%	49.0%	21	5	28	8	75.0%	62.5%	5	11	14	28	35.7%	39.3%	34	30	13	15	9	19
Colgate	        26	23	51	45	51.0%	51.1%	19	9	26	11	73.1%	81.8%	3	11	9	29	33.3%	37.9%	29	22	8	11	10	16
St. Francis BK	29	24	61	59	47.5%	40.7%	21	7	25	12	84.0%	58.3%	8	5	17	22	47.1%	22.7%	50	21	19	12	15	8
Total	        202	167	418	397	48.3%	42.1%	140	90	189	120	74.1%	75.0%	40	53	92	173	43.5%	30.6%	291	189	95	82	85	87
Average	        28.9	23.9	59.7	56.7	48.6%	43.0%	20.0	12.9	27.0	17.1	74.3%	73.9%	5.7	7.6	13.1	24.7	42.9%	30.2%	41.6	27.0	13.6	11.7	12.1	12.4
																								
UAlbany Losses																								
** Albany stats are the left side in each grouping **																								
Opponent	FGM		FGA		FG%		FTM		FTA		FT%		3PTM		3PTA		3PT%		RBG		AST		TO	
Cincinatti	20	28	48	61	41.7%	45.9%	9	13	14	20	64.3%	65.0%	2	5	14	21	14.3%	23.8%	33	34	8	16	22	10
Grand Canyon	27	29	59	69	45.8%	42.0%	15	14	21	21	71.4%	66.7%	8	10	21	24	38.1%	41.7%	36	33	10	15	13	9
Holy Cross	21	18	45	46	46.7%	39.1%	8	6	10	10	80.0%	60.0%	1	11	9	29	11.1%	37.9%	20	37	15	12	18	9
Yale	        22	22	50	56	44.0%	39.3%	9	4	10	5	90.0%	80.0%	2	11	12	29	16.7%	37.9%	31	33	13	15	12	13
Canisius	27	26	66	57	40.9%	45.6%	8	13	8	17	100.0%	76.5%	2	12	11	28	18.2%	42.9%	37	35	11	20	13	14
SMU	        21	25	51	47	41.2%	53.2%	4	13	5	24	80.0%	54.2%	7	8	23	17	30.4%	47.1%	25	33	10	14	12	10
Total	        138	148	319	336	43.3%	44.0%	53	63	68	97	77.9%	64.9%	22	57	90	148	24.4%	38.5%	182	205	67	92	90	65
Average	        23.0	24.7	53.2	56.0	43.4%	44.2%	8.8	10.5	11.3	16.2	81.0%	67.1%	3.7	9.5	15.0	24.7	21.5%	38.5%	30.3	34.2	11.2	15.3	15.0	10.8
																								
Total (all)	340	315	737	733	46.1%	43.0%	193	153	257	217	75.1%	70.5%	62	110	182	321	34.1%	34.3%	473	394	162	174	175	152
Average (all)	26.2	24.2	56.7	56.4	46.2%	43.6%	14.8	11.8	19.8	16.7	77.4%	70.8%	4.8	8.5	14.0	24.7	33.0%	34.0%	36.4	30.3	12.5	13.4	13.5	11.7

Edited December 22, 2016 by Eli

[MRSGDG]

 

 

 

David is 4-12...need him to produce as our PG.

Cremo was 5/12. Not sure what you have against Nichols

 

Nichols had 5 assists. Plays as hard as anyone one on the team. I'll take the aggressive mistakes he makes.

Cremo was 5-10 until he put up a couple 3FGA in the last few seconds of the game.

 

I think it's just decision-making for Nichols at this point..realizing he's still just a sophomore..and is playing what's really his first season. You need someone who's never afraid to take a shot..but will need to learn when it's ok to force it and when it's not. He's got a good mid-range game..but I thought he took many contested long two-pointer jumpers in traffic when his drive got cut off. Lowest scoring shot in basketball. We need his outside shot to start dropping too..as I'm sure it will open the lane just a bit for him.

 

The team played 30+ minutes of very good basketball. Solid defense and had enough shots falling on the offensive side. Too bad it ended up being an 18 point game..didn't show how close the game was for that long. If we play like that during conference season..we'll win a lot of games.

Yes, this. Yeah Cremo hit only 5 but he had more points and was more efficient.

 

I mean I don't have specifically anything against him, just saying.. I mean Brown didn't start him for a reason. Just my observations.

[Dane Pound]

 

 

I think it's just decision-making for Nichols at this point..realizing he's still just a sophomore..and is playing what's really his first season. You need someone who's never afraid to take a shot..but will need to learn when it's ok to force it and when it's not. He's got a good mid-range game..but I thought he took many contested long two-pointer jumpers in traffic when his drive got cut off. Lowest scoring shot in basketball. We need his outside shot to start dropping too..as I'm sure it will open the lane just a bit for him.

 

Totally agree.

 

It's a fine line for a point guard on when to call your own number and when to run more offense. Nichols has tended to be more aggressive but I'm sure he'll temper it. By the time he's all done he's going to be a terrific player.

 

On the other hand. The more I see Grayson play the more he looks like he has all the tools to be an all-conference type guard. He seems to fade into the woodwork a little too much. I'd like to see he and Nichols meet somewhere in the middle on the aggressiveness scale and we'll have a heck of a backcourt.