Game #26: 2/16/2020--1PM @ Maine

[nysteve661]

Time for the annual journey up to Orono for a Sunday tip.  Will see who is healthy and can contribute.  Clark probably tried to hard to make up for Healy out and no one else could get to double digits and help him.  Perfect opportunity for some one to show they can be the number 3 option and they failed.  Add that to the abysmal FT shooting and you get what you get.  

[DanesRGood]

Hoping for a in tonight!  Always hate this game for the team for some reason.  I also don't like he excuse of the long bus ride because Maine doesn't really have any short trips and all other teams have to visit them too. 

PS - These injuries stink.  We've been lucky over the recent years though to not have many of our top players hurt for really long periods of time.  It was bound to happen.

[UAalum72]

57 minutes ago, DanesRGood said:

Hoping for a in tonight!

Of course, tomorrow afternoon not tonight 

[UA'08]

1 hour ago, DanesRGood said:

Hoping for a in tonight!  Always hate this game for the team for some reason.  I also don't like he excuse of the long bus ride because Maine doesn't really have any short trips and all other teams have to visit them too. 

PS - These injuries stink.  We've been lucky over the recent years though to not have many of our top players hurt for really long periods of time.  It was bound to happen.

Again who’s been out for long periods of time besides Lulka and Anderson? My question is why do they feel the need to start Hank every game. Start Hansen.

I think we are where we are. Healthy or not this is how the team would have been at the beginning of the season if everyone was healthy. .500

Edited February 15, 2020 by UA'08

[godanesgo99]

5 hours ago, UA'08 said:

Again who’s been out for long periods of time besides Lulka and Anderson? My question is why do they feel the need to start Hank every game. Start Hansen.

I think we are where we are. Healthy or not this is how the team would have been at the beginning of the season if everyone was healthy. .500

You can just look at who was out for a long period of time, you have to look at who is playing through injury as well.

DeSousa missed a full game and was limited in a few

Clark has played through Injury.

Healy has missed a game and a half and played through injury

Rizzuto has only been healthy the last few games.

Hutch has been injured and playing through pain all year. 

Lulka/JoJo you mentioned

Has there been a game where we have been at full strength (minus JoJo) all season? Has there been a game where there has been even close to a team at 75%? I don't think so.

Hopefully by playoff time.

[UA1882]

With Hartfore losing yesterday we are back in control. Unless Healy is near 100 percent I would not play him here either. 

Maine plays better at home but if we play good defense we should be fine. Would like to see Lulka get involved today and have double digits. 

[Bball2020]

Teams have injuries, UA has been inconsistent on offense and defense all year. Agree they are a 500 team through and through. Hank and lulka have regressed tremendously, de sousa seems to be turning a corner and competing

[godanesgo99]

Wish ESPN would show the score and clock on the screen. This is hard to follow. At least if the game was in Albany, you could see the score on the boards court side....

[ctdanes]

I'm pretty sure espn uses infrastructure provided by the arena/school... Probably a problem on Maines end

[UA1882]

Thank god for Clark. Bad Bad Bad offense half. No movement. Pretty Bad Defensively as well. 

Need to get out of here with a win. 

[McFan]

We play with a 4 point lead like we’re ahead by 15.  I’ll never understand.   Clark bails us out on one possession and then a shot clock violation.  Please keep playing.

[cwdickens]

A win in the road.... I will take it .... We are much better position compare to this time last season. They found a way to win and control their destiny.

[ctdanes]

Not pretty but it's W. Gotta take care of umbc and UNH at home. Big game at UML and maybe the Stony Brook game is for the 2 seed. Would be huge

[Dane Pound]

Just watched the replay.

Great to see Healy back. Lulka looked a little more like himself in this game. I liked the combo of Lulka and Hansen together.

Ahmad looked like he was going around pylons instead of Maine defenders. A lot of turnovers but otherwise, he was amazing to watch.

Kind of a workman-like win but much needed to stay in a good position.

[Bball2020]

Agree workman like w.  Just get in get the W and get out.  I cannot believe Hartford lost to Lowell, its like Hartford plays good only when they play UA.  We have a legit chance at third place, I think stony brook and Vermont are above all else and then talent wise were next, our offense is frustrating however and never know what will show up. A two seed would be amazing but doubtful at this point, considering how ugly the offense has been.