TullyBonnie11
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Disappointing loss, obviously. Insert obligatory remarks here about the team showing a lot of heart in the final minutes to make it close.
Regan wasn’t too bad.
The substitution- probably due to UB throwing athletes at the guard position. Jordan is a great defender and Segu isn’t bad. Kyle was also going the full length of the court on several possessions due to rebounding position. No Court this year to be a secondary ball handler. English and AJ will get there.
A few thoughts:
I'm glad we fought until the bitter end and made it interesting, that showed mental toughness. I'm not happy, but I'll take the heat check before conference play.
- Why did Schmidt take Lofton, Welch and English out in the first half? This one really baffles me considering his tendencies
- 4 threes at a 20% clip wasn't gonna cut it
- Free throws were the difference in this one. Both shot at a 77ish clip except they shot 21 more times than we did. The first couple games when we didn't get fouls shots we didn't drive to the hoop and get inside, this was the exact opposite today (52 points in the paint), wasn't much consistency from the officials here
- UB had a really good strategy going into this game, attack Shoon and get him into foul trouble. Worked like a charm and they ended up out-rebounding us, held him to 6 points in 17 minutes of play. Playing against Mballa was almost the equivalent of insider trading.
- Kyle and Dom had 46 combined tonight they average around 27ppg, they've only eclipsed 30pts together once before this season. They had 35 against Siena, which oddly makes us 0-2 when they score more than 30pts combined. No surprise bench points in these losses were a combined 15.
English has the stones to get better. AJ just needs time (and to learn... he has so much to learn).
Here’s a point I wouldn’t dare make on the Bandwagon due to misinterpretation and general ignorance:
Look at our roster this year. There are 2-3 players who play major roles with us who wouldn’t sniff the court on that UB team and most other D1 teams. I know most teams have that, but they don’t play the minutes our guys do. They’re nice guys this year (not so in past years), but they’re not going to contribute enough offensively to win games like that.
UB’s run was fueled by brick threes on our end and their speed.
Exactly, man. The third kid is a bit less obvious but still wouldn’t play on that UB team.PYbonnie, im with you on 2 of the 3, not sure I know who the 3rd is at this time. One of them I’ve suspected is overmatched for a while, and oh my God did he ever look horribly overmatched offensively tonight.
That’s just it though. Right now we have 2-3 guys who possess, maybe, the ability to break through as scorers but none of them are there yet on a consistent basis. And that’s discouraging in nights like tonight where the offense is stagnant, choppy and Difficult to watch for long periods, and yet, we only lose by 5.
Frustrating.
This is repeated every year, but the staff simply MUST upgrade the second unit. We have few, if any, specialists to bring off the bench (see: secondary ball handler; catch-and-shoot guy). It’s great to have long athletes, but some heady basketball junky guards (basically, another English type and a true backup PG to develop) would go a long way in complementing Lofton and Welch. As is, the roster makeup beyond the top five or six gets a bit redundant.
Tough nights for Bobby, Amadi, and Osun. The latter of whom needs to chill with the attempted charges and reaching from the weak side. Beat your man to the spot and use that wingspan, baby!
Yep. Dave Moore would coach that out of him. It’s so damn instinctual to do it, though.
The charges are part of his game and our plan, but he tried too frequently.
The drop off to the second unit isn’t as bad as last year, but it’s bad.
While I can certainly sympathize with this reality, it sort of falls on deaf ears when SBU is shucking about a million annual oysters for the head guy. Be it a grad transfer from a lower level or something else, it has to get done.With Kyle being pretty darn good, the quest for a backup PG will take a kid who is willing to take less PT (even a true backup PG who will accept the role). Kids like that are so rare these days in this "me" generation. Same issue we had with Jay being Jay and struggling to get a quality backup PG.