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Date Posted: Friday, February 27, 10:49:14pm
Author: oldtimer#1
Subject: Re: Pieces in a puzzle.
In reply to: Cindy Crawford 's message, "Pieces in a puzzle." on Friday, February 27, 10:21:08pm

To add:

#1) Coaching staff had the team very well prepared defensively. Players knew where to be and how to defend as a team.

#2) Ryan is not only a shot blocker par excellance but just the awareness of his presence is now causing opponents to alter or miss shots.

#3) Interesting by-play. JD was very annimated in his coaching tonight. He was really into the game. With less than two minutes remaining and Iona still with an outside chance, the following happened: Two made foul shots by Iona. Iona goes into full court press. Gooding (exactly the right man to inbound) has difficulty inbounding. Dunne calls timeout from the bench, avoiding the five second violation. As the team come to the huddle JD yells at the entire unit "run the play". Obviously, they were not positioned properly nor did they run the designed play.



Timeout is over, Gooding fakes to Jenkins coming to the ball, runs the entire baseline and hit an open Leon who is fouled. As Gooding walks by the bench JD gives him "five", implying job well done. Nice to see the players execute, get the rewards and recognition from the coach. Job well done by all.

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[> [> Re: Pieces in a puzzle. -- loyal, Friday, February 27, 11:24:50pm [1]

Observations:

1. Bacon had a huge impact on the game, even beyond his good stat line.....he defended the paint in a way no SPC player has in recent memory....altering Iona shots all night long. If Ryan continues to improve, he will become a very, very special player for SPC. My analogy is a more fundamentally sound Jamie Sowers..........with a work ethic.
2. Leon created many scoring opportunities for himself in the second half when Iona focused more on Wesley. All I can say is....only Oldtimer had it right.
3. Wesley carried SPC in the first half...15 of our 23 points!

Next few years may shape up pretty well, for the following reason...tonight, Iona's bench outscored ours 20-0. Most nights, opponents outscore our bench by 10-15 points, at a minimum.
Hey, Costner, Hill, Hall, Reid etc. are eligible to improve and they may do so....not knocking them....but if you substitute an average MAAC level players performance (Conley? Belin?)and remove the stats of rotation players 6-8, our club takes a quantum leap....as our subs performance this year has generally been poor, with random exceptions. If Conley and Belin are only "solid" players, vs. "very good".....the team takes a major step forward next year.
Let's take the Jaspers, avoid the PIG and match up with Rider next Saturday night at 9:30PM....playing with house money.


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