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bradley PhD Student Posts 1842 |
02-10-18 06:07 PM - Post#247316
Time to step up and show pride and character. Hard to believe that the Tigers are 5 1/2 pt favorites unless they are sick and tired of losing. Tigers must rebound tonight. Go back to contest every shot possible and move the ball quickly until someone gets and open look -- go back to pre-break style of play especially on defensive end. |
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Eric Von Zipper Senior Posts 343 |
02-10-18 07:37 PM - Post#247371
Hard to believe the line maker then makes Harvard the slight fsvorite over Pennsylvania today. Harvard 76- Pennsylvania 67 |
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SRP Postdoc Posts 4910 |
02-10-18 09:35 PM - Post#247394
Down 52-57 with 3:49 left. Defense is still Jekyll and Hyde from possession to possession. Dartmouth with an absurd foul advantage in the second half--Tigers get hit on drives with no call, but Dartmouth getting a lot of calls. PU has also been horrible on the defensive boards, letting the Big Green collect tons of ORs. |
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SRP Postdoc Posts 4910 |
02-10-18 09:42 PM - Post#247396
54-62 with 1:58 left. Bell with a chance for an and-one. Misses it, gets OR, Young misses trey, and Dartmouth ends up shooting FTs again. |
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SRP Postdoc Posts 4910 |
02-10-18 09:45 PM - Post#247398
After Bell agains fails to finish and and-one, the Johnson hits a trey for Dartmouth. Bell misses, and Johnson is fouled. Down 12 with 1:07 to go. |
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1LotteryPick1969 Postdoc Posts 2272 
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02-10-18 09:46 PM - Post#247399
Very painful to watch. What is our offensive strategy? |
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1LotteryPick1969 Postdoc Posts 2272
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02-10-18 09:47 PM - Post#247400
Tigers must rebound tonight. Well, they didn't. |
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umbrellaman Masters Student Posts 475 
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02-10-18 09:50 PM - Post#247401
With 4 road games left, it’s hard not to think playoff chances are done. Shocking. |
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SRP Postdoc Posts 4910 |
02-10-18 09:52 PM - Post#247402
Some of it is just missing shots. Not all of them were bad shots, but some have to go in. Except for Bell's two late layups, every FGA missed from when Princeton had a 52-50 lead. |
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gokinsmen Postdoc Posts 3664 |
02-10-18 09:55 PM - Post#247403
Wow. What happened over the break? This team has completely lost its will to play basketball. Dartmouth ended the game on a videogame-like 22-4 run in the last 7m. This is Joe Scott levels of embarrassing. |
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penn nation Professor Posts 21192 |
02-10-18 10:04 PM - Post#247408
Maybe that DIII "tuneup" didn't do the job. 
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1LotteryPick1969 Postdoc Posts 2272
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02-10-18 10:07 PM - Post#247410
Some of it is just missing shots. Not all of them were bad shots, but some have to go in. Except for Bell's two late layups, every FGA missed from when Princeton had a 52-50 lead. Bell is the senior on the team, and to me has the skill set to have the ball in his hands most of the time, but he doesn't seem to want that role, or perhaps the coach doesn't want him to have it. Or perhaps Weisz had that role for so long that Bell is actually new to the role. And yes, the shots looked like good shots, but no one shot in rhythm with confidence--the role that is usually Cannady's. |
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Eric Von Zipper Senior Posts 343 |
02-10-18 10:15 PM - Post#247412
Dartmouth had lost 10 in a row. They were due. |
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penn nation Professor Posts 21192 |
02-10-18 10:21 PM - Post#247413
They had in fact lost a lot....but often in close contests. |
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Eric Von Zipper Senior Posts 343 |
02-10-18 10:29 PM - Post#247414
The best 5-16 team in the country. |
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SomeGuy Professor Posts 6404 |
02-11-18 11:13 AM - Post#247435
The only 5-16 team in the country. |
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Go Green PhD Student Posts 1145 |
02-11-18 11:52 AM - Post#247438
They had in fact lost a lot....but often in close contests. Most of those close games actually went down to the last possession. And nobody put their scrubs in at the end against us. Very glad that the team was finally able to get that monkey off their backs. |
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Eric Von Zipper Senior Posts 343 |
02-11-18 03:11 PM - Post#247456
Prior to spanking Princeton, Dartmouth had defeated D3 Emerson, Maine (6-20),Loyola MD (8-16) and Bryant (3-24). |
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Silver Maple Postdoc Posts 3770 |
02-11-18 04:23 PM - Post#247464
Sometimes it's just not your year. Princeton has a good, well-run, well-coached program, and is recruiting very well. They'll be back. Also, this year is far from over. As Barak Obama would say, everybody just calm the fluck down. |
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sparman PhD Student Posts 1345 
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02-11-18 09:09 PM - Post#247486
As Barak Obama would say, everybody just calm the fluck down. Yes but his Kenyan brother Barack might not have been so mellow. |
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penn nation Professor Posts 21192 |
02-11-18 09:24 PM - Post#247489
Yeah, it can be confusing when you mix up the brothers. The other one |
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bradley PhD Student Posts 1842 |
02-12-18 11:10 AM - Post#247518
Somebody must have spiked the drinking water during the break. Very unusual for the quality of play drop down so precipitously after the West Coast trip and the Columbia/Cornell weekend. The Tigers may have played their best game of the year against a very good Middle Tennessee team and even though they played poorly at the Palestra, they had the opportunity to win. Why the free fall? Good question. Maybe, the freshmen have hit a wall plus Cannady is out of sorts. I do believe that the coaching staff has faced challenges in putting together a cohesive squad. At the end of the day, the Tigers have a lot of talent and Coach H will have the Tigers stay competitive especially with the incoming recruiting class plus this year's freshmen plus Stephens and Cannady next year. The program will be just fine. Small pleasure but at least last year's 16-0 team is good for another year. |
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Silver Maple Postdoc Posts 3770 |
02-12-18 11:29 AM - Post#247519
Freshman wall-hitting is not an uncommon phenomenon. It's a long, grueling season for them, much tougher than what they probably had to endure at the HS level. Look at Brodeur's dropoff during the final third of last season. Part of that can be explained by conference opponents keying on him, but fatigue was almost certainly a factor as well. This season he seems to be getting stronger as the season progresses. My expectation is that Princeton's freshmen will show a similar progression next year. |
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