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Date Posted: 09:03:46 01/31/03 Fri
Author: RayS
Subject: Re: Siena game Thoughts
In reply to: JoeStag 's message, "Siena game Thoughts" on 08:41:59 01/31/03 Fri

Just when it looked safe to be optomistic we lose 2 of 3. What is most disturbing is we didn't protect our home turf against 2 of the better teams in the MAAC. I find it hard to understand how a team can come out flat when they have a golden opportunity to put away one of their main rivals for the top spot in the league.

The lack of rebounding in the 2nd half sounds like it was the kiss of death. That old problem no boxing out seems to have come back to haunt us. Fortunatly we have a favorable schedule down the stretch. If we beat the teams we should beat, especially at home we should finish with only 4 or 5 losses in the league.

The next few games will be the true test of how much TOT's coaching skills have improved. This team needs to refocus & play 40 minutes. 35 minutes won't be good enough against Niagara & Manhattan.

The only benefit of the last weks events is that certain inane posters have mercifully disappeared from this board. Hopefully that trend will continue even after we start winning again. We certainly don't need posters on this board who have an IQ lower than that of a Moose.

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[> [> Re: Siena game Thoughts -- Stagman, 09:13:49 01/31/03 Fri

Falling behind early is a killer. No way the team should come out so flat when so much is on the line and the game is on your home court.

Needless to say, a team will rarely win when it commits 22 turnovers.

I've said it before. I'll say it again. Deng Gai is 'potentially' the most dominant player the Stags have had in 20 years. Yet he averages less than 9 shots per game (shooting 57%). He only got 6 shots last night. He needs to get the ball a lot more. I'd hate to see this guy leave after 4 years having averaged 13 points a game. He is being under-utilized.

The Stags are 12-7, but it is a very tenuous record. Too many games where they fell behind early and came back, or got a big lead and held on. This team has to develop consistency and stop going through the dramatic intra-game mood swings. That works against Loyola and St Peters, but the better teams are going to catch up with them (like last night).

Tomorrow is February 1st. We will now see how good this team really is. If they are for real, they should still get to 18 wins by the time the tourney comes around.


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[> [> Re: Siena game Thoughts -- Clam Jammer, 09:15:04 01/31/03 Fri

The Ty versus Prosper matchup didn't really materialize as big as expected, because Dewitt played Prosper for a good part of the game and Ty and Todd the rest. Ty did bother him a lot, but I think that Prosper got some baskets off rebounds over Ty. Anyone notice that the first time that Ty and Todd were in the game togther, that we were already down 14 and half way through the first half. O'Tools got to get them into the game earlier, and I hope that is not a scripted substitution.


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[> [> [> Re: Siena game Thoughts -- Bridgeport, 11:02:07 01/31/03 Fri

clam jammer

it is always scripted, just like Gettysberg--once Lee committed to the charge--- his gallant men fell before the offensive rebounding of the North.


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[> [> [> [> Re: Siena game Thoughts -- Rave, 11:20:04 01/31/03 Fri

Two very obvious areas of concern taken from this game. One is that there are no adjustments made during a game and two is that this team (no M.Bell) lacks outside shooting. Our press sucked yesterday and we used it way too long. What worked 10 days ago, didn't work yesterday. Siena adjusted, we didn't.


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[> [> Re: sorry Ray S... I'm Baaaacckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk -- TruthRuth, 14:47:54 01/31/03 Fri

Never left, actually...I can only infer that you were referring to me in your last post... no such luck, pal.. I am here and will continue to add my two cents whenever necessary.. even when it does not coincide with your "repeating the obvious" posts..

and as for questioning my IQ, isn't that an attack on my character? Isn't that against this board's policy? Sure seems to fit the category...


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[> [> Shot Blocker / Rebounding -- Menzies, 17:58:22 01/31/03 Fri

Boxing out is disrupted by the shot blocker going to the ball. I don't know what we can do about that. It would be difficult to tell Thompson or Deng that they shouldn't try to block shots when in the game with Gai. It would be just as hard to have the player whose man is driving to go block out Gai's man from the rebound.

Does UConn have any strategy with Okafor or does a shot blocking team just have to live with it?

Good judgement by the shot blocker is key so that he doesn't go after shots he can't get.


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