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Rhode Island Post Game Thread

Liam is going to struggle on defense. He is limited laterally, but he can improve. I he will go on nuclear shooting streaks.

Solo has no intention of coming off the bench

Ross has no intention of not being in the top 7 rotation.

Bigs will give us trouble

We will terrorize other teams wings
 
Random thoughts on the scrimmage:

Hurley is a great coach. Maybe they were a bit easy on URI defensively in the first half not in the second.
Karaban is Karaban our leader
Diarra is our heart and will be vocal leader. I can see him getting that important and one when we need a basket.
Johnson is our starting center. He definitely is passing better. Rebounding and fouls still an area for improvement.
Mahaney is a great offensive player
Ball is a beast who will play in the NBA soon…
Ross will play guard more than Liam or Stewart and that is not a bad thing for any of them.
Stewart is a very good offensive player wish he would use that big body more to rebound.
Liam is going to be better in two months.
Reed Jr will get better as the year goes on…rebounding and going to the hoop more aggressively need work
Nowell does not look like a freshman and does not play like a freshman.
Practices will be brutally competitive

We are as deep as we thought we were.
 
3rdbass said:
This is definitely the deepest team I have seen for 10 years. I do like when they they put Stewart in for McNeeley with Johnson, Diarra, Karaban and Ball. That lineup really changed the game around. Mahaney can really score the ball and nice to see Ball looking like like a dog.
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Notice that line up is all our contributors who had the most minutes from last year. It established a rhythm and relaxed the newcomers on the bench.
 
Warms my heart to see all the Solo love. Welcome to the bandwagon people!

As we all see though Mahaney is great too. Solo just looked like that good of a player which is impressive because they looked like the best two on the team tonight.
 
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My takeaways:
Rebounding, post defense, PG play, who’s our leader, who’s our goto guy & just need more reps running this complex offense as a team
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Ross is a dawg !!!!
Mahaney/Karaban/McNeeley are steady
Solo is prepared mentally more than last year

Great idea to get these guys some play in a live game early so the staff can put these guys in position early
 
NewBlood said:
DEEP DEEP DEEP

Balls, Stewart, Ross, Super Sophs showing up

Reed and Mahaney gave strong flashes of what to come

Diarra and Alex, these are our captains

Samson, still Samson
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McNeeley too!
 
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Very interesting full nine man rotation; 16-23 minutes for everyone except Alex at 27, and Nowell earned his 8, making almost ten men!
 
They seemed to call Reed’s number to get him some touches down low in the second half. Nothing is taken for granted. Something is always being carefully managed and worked on. I’m sure other coaching staffs are trying to do the same things but our coaches never seem to miss a detail or an opportunity to get better. I love it.
 
I think we've got another amazing season ahead of us, I'm boarding the train and drinking the Kool-Aid.

Overall, particularly in the 2nd half, I think all of our players individually looked good. Holy cow a lot of the new faces to learn, I can't wait to see watch them play and develop over the season. Considering all of the new players and the preseason nature of the game they looked pretty good overall with not too much confusion, I don't think there was a lazy play in there, and no one crumbled early when URI was slugging it out with us. I have to think come Conference games these guys are going to be crushing it.

Singare came in and had 3 plays in a row, gotta love that. He went for a fourth and fouled but you have to love the hustle.

What was with that block of seats of empty seats right behind the basket on one end, it was 5 entire rows - whatever donor/sponsor had those seat... jeez.
 
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MilliniumPrince said:
Liam is going to struggle on defense. He is limited laterally, but he can improve. I he will go on nuclear shooting streaks.

Solo has no intention of coming off the bench

Ross has no intention of not being in the top 7 rotation.

Bigs will give us trouble

We will terrorize other teams wings
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Assuming stew is 6th man then youre saying that Ross is coming off the bench before all of Reed/Mahaney/Nowell?
 
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awy said:
a lot of the early defensive struggles was rebounding related. looking at the boxscore pretty shocked that samson only had 1 rebound, but it did kind of feel like that.
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1 reb from Samson even after putting on 20 lbs is very concerning but I love that Reed grabbed 10. If Samson starts I think it has to be a 20/20 timeshare give or take based on foul trouble or we’re gonna get killed on the defensive glass
 
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AZ hated the D and rebounding in the first half our Bigs had trouble with our old 7’0 friend who only made the team picture in 2022.
However they picked it up in the second so I’ll sleep better tonight
Offensively we got a bunch of guys who can play and the second half was fun .
We came at them in waves .
Ball seems to have made a Jump and Nowell has a beautiful stroke and no conscience my kind of guy , but everyone had moments seriously the list of great plays by different guys is head spinning.
The St Mary’s kid who looks very young from afar
will become a crowd favorite Spenceresque
 
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