What a wet blanket.But I'll take 80 pts vs a slow down team and a 15 win any day. Boys hit their shots!
Was at the game. It was a good game not great.
Boat seemingly is still not trusting his teammates to hit outside shots. This game (players hitting shots) will hopefully change that. He is a great player, who has not yet mastered the point guard position. If only we had another 'reliable' ball handler then Boat would having outstanding games playing the off guard at times. They were keying on him, converging on him and frustrating him via hacking. Actually Boat needs to be the Ferrari to let loose, but this team is just not suited for his style. Mostly because of inexperience and youth. Perhaps someone will help him because he is AA worthy.
Quietly Omar hit a couple of buckets from outside. I saw no lingering health issues. That was great to see.
Purvis looked much more confident, and particularly in the 2nd half didn't hesitate like he used to. This led to very good results.
I think DHam also needs to take the open shot (talking 1st half), as I was noticing him pass on the jumper to drive and make a much more difficult shot. Ollie needs to tell him to shoot without hesitation (2nd half) because he is becoming our best player. The crowd was yelling at him (and Purvis) to shoot the open shot but they both seemed hesitant, It clicked in the 2nd half.
Amida is a year away from beasting. Unfortunately this season will be chalked up to simply learning and improving. He is not ready to dominate, even though you can see it coming. Skilled big men give him problems on the defensive side, and offensively he just doesn't pass the ball.
Lubin looks small in person he too is a year or so away.
Nolan, well his role is to spell Amida and not make many mistakes. His hands are just weak. Sorry but I can't see much production coming from him this season. He is what he is.
T-Sam also showed more confidence tonight, sure he made a couple of mistakes but he was a factor. He hit some nice jumpers. He hustles and does not take plays off. I saw confidence in his eyes. All good.
Facey was a non-factor for this game, Columbia had some tall boys which may have had something to do with it.
Casell Jr. plays like his sneakers have weights. Its evident in person that he prefers a slow pace style game.
My take is that this team can win the AAC crown and get seeded in the Tourney. We will not roll over anyone, but we have the pieces to beat them all. Ollie will see to that.
We are still missing something, what it is I don't know. I'm sure Ollie is searching for it but most of our opponents are playing us too close for comfort.
By the way none of the Columbia players would start on our team, so yes they are a good team but one we should have handled better. We pulled away in the last 2 1/2 minutes. So it was a good game not great. This is a building block type of a game, CSCU should be another block. I think we will see a confident team and one that is slowly coming together.
Then we should be ready to beat Florida and Stanford.
I'm surprised Columbia had beaten Hofstra. They are fundamentally sound. This was a good W.
Was at the game. It was a good game not great.
Boat seemingly is still not trusting his teammates to hit outside shots. This game (players hitting shots) will hopefully change that. He is a great player, who has not yet mastered the point guard position. If only we had another 'reliable' ball handler then I see Boat having outstanding games playing the off guard at times. They were keying on him, converging on him and frustrating him via hacking. Actually Boat needs to be the Ferrari to let loose, but this team is just not suited for his style. Mostly because of inexperience and youth. Perhaps someone will help him because he is AA worthy.
Quietly Omar hit a couple of buckets from outside. I saw no lingering health issues. That was great to see.
Purvis looked much more confident, and particularly in the 2nd half didn't hesitate like he used to. This led to very good results.
I think DHam also needs to take the open shot (talking 1st half), as I was noticing him pass on the jumper to drive and make a much more difficult shot. Ollie needs to tell him to shoot without hesitation (2nd half) because he is becoming our best player. The crowd was yelling at him (and Purvis) to shoot the open shot but they both seemed hesitant, It clicked in the 2nd half.
Amida is a year away from beasting. Unfortunately this season will be chalked up to simply learning and improving. He is not ready to dominate, even though you can see it coming. Skilled big men give him problems on the defensive side, and offensively he just doesn't pass the ball.
Lubin looks small in person he too is a year or so away.
Nolan, well his role is to spell Amida and not make many mistakes. His hands are just weak. Sorry but I can't see much production coming from him this season. He is what he is.
T-Sam also showed more confidence tonight, sure he made a couple of mistakes but he was a factor. He hit some nice jumpers. He hustles and does not take plays off. I saw confidence in his eyes. All good.
Facey was a non-factor for this game, Columbia had some tall boys which may have had something to do with it.
Casell Jr. plays like his sneakers have weights. Its evident in person that he prefers a slow pace style game.
My take is that this team can win the AAC crown and get seeded in the Tourney. We will not roll over anyone, but we have the pieces to beat them all. Ollie will see to that.
We are still missing something, what it is I don't know. I'm sure Ollie is searching for it but most of our opponents are playing us too close for comfort.
By the way none of the Columbia players would start on our team, so yes they are a good team but one we should have handled better. We pulled away in the last 2 1/2 minutes. So it was a good game not great. This is a building block type of a game, CSCU should be another block. I think we will see a confident team and one that is slowly coming together.
Then we should be ready to beat Florida and Stanford.
zls44 said:Is Hofstra any good this year?
Kitaman said:Was at the game. It was a good game not great. Boat seemingly is still not trusting his teammates to hit outside shots. This game (players hitting shots) will hopefully change that. He is a great player, who has not yet mastered the point guard position.
We were up 11 with 4 to go.Guys, we were up by as little as 3 with as little as 5 minutes to go before an onslaught of 3s. You really think this was a typical 15 pt win?
Not trying to be a downer, even had positivity in my OP.
Purvis, Samuel and Omar all hit jumpers tonight. Gotta like that.