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HuskyColonial
PhD Student
Posts 1976
12-01-18 11:13 AM - Post#267704    

A loss today at home to winless Monmouth would be inexcusable.
BisonFan4
Junior
Posts 211
12-01-18 12:07 PM - Post#267708    

Not going to happen. I think we will see a different start to the game today.
bison63
Postdoc
Posts 3857
12-01-18 02:37 PM - Post#267715    

They are playing the wrong pregame tape on Eagle 107 (Northeastern) Hope they get the right game. Don’t want to live through that one again!
bison63
Postdoc
Posts 3857
12-01-18 02:39 PM - Post#267716    

They just caught it, 8 minutes in.
Paulie777
PhD Student
Posts 1767
12-01-18 02:41 PM - Post#267717    

Would love to see Bruce Moore, Sotos, and Sestina/Newman score a bunch of points. More scoring, less playing.
bison63
Postdoc
Posts 3857
12-01-18 02:49 PM - Post#267718    

Was hoping for an easy game, but listening to Coach ND, it sounds like we will be playing Duke today, lol.
bison63
Postdoc
Posts 3857
12-01-18 03:31 PM - Post#267724    

If the 3s are not falling, how about trying some twos. Duh!
bison63
Postdoc
Posts 3857
12-01-18 03:33 PM - Post#267725    

This game is starting to look familiar
Bison89
Professor
Posts 5370
Bison89
12-01-18 03:51 PM - Post#267726    

Other than Sestina, this team looks really bad at home. I have never seen a team play so poorly at home. Luckily, Monmouth is just plain bad this season.
New season, new team, new dream . . .

crd012
Junior
Posts 262
12-01-18 03:58 PM - Post#267727    

Good news: We’re winning at half.

Bad news: Literally everything else. This game is terrible.
HuskyColonial
PhD Student
Posts 1976
12-01-18 04:23 PM - Post#267732    

Monmouth is the worse team I’ve seen since we played Northeastern!
Bison89
Professor
Posts 5370
Bison89
12-01-18 04:55 PM - Post#267733    

I slept through most of the second half. No, really, I took a nap.

Good to win . . .
New season, new team, new dream . . .

bison63
Postdoc
Posts 3857
12-01-18 05:26 PM - Post#267736    

We did some good things, but Monmouth was really baaad!
jkrun80
Postdoc
Posts 3305
12-01-18 05:38 PM - Post#267738    

Much better defensive effort today (after the first few minutes). Monmouth may not be very good, but I think we made them look worse than they are. Now we just need more shots to fall.
HuskyColonial
PhD Student
Posts 1976
12-01-18 05:42 PM - Post#267739    

The seond half was better in large part because our gaurds drove to the basket more. There’s no inside-outside game that’s for sure.
md2377
Freshman
Posts 17
12-01-18 05:45 PM - Post#267740    

If a 22 point win could ever be painful to watch, this was it.
A Bison surrounded by purple cows.

Bison89
Professor
Posts 5370
Bison89
12-01-18 07:34 PM - Post#267747    

  • md2377 Said:
If a 22 point win could ever be painful to watch, this was it.



I completely agree. Well said!
New season, new team, new dream . . .

jkrun80
Postdoc
Posts 3305
12-01-18 07:55 PM - Post#267749    

  • Bison89 Said:
  • md2377 Said:
If a 22 point win could ever be painful to watch, this was it.



I completely agree. Well said!


This is a tough crowd. A win is a win.
bison63
Postdoc
Posts 3857
12-01-18 08:00 PM - Post#267750    

Yes a win is a win, but it WAS painful to watch. In the first half on offense the whol team camped out along the 3 point lint. Moving to the inside was off limits.
res
Masters Student
Posts 839
12-01-18 08:28 PM - Post#267754    

  • jkrun80 Said:
This is a tough crowd. A win is a win.



Yes, there are a lot of experts in this crowd.

Bison137
Professor
Posts 16147
Bison137
12-01-18 08:32 PM - Post#267755    

  • bison63 Said:
Yes a win is a win, but it WAS painful to watch. In the first half on offense the whol team camped out along the 3 point lint. Moving to the inside was off limits.




True. But I think a big reason for that was the Monmouth defense. They were big and packed all defenders close to the basket. Their two centers were both bigger than Sestina and their two PF's a bit bigger than Moore. Guards were big as well. The Bison attempted 34 threes and I think the shooters were open on all of them. The only ones I didn't like were the ones from Jones - and he was wide open also.

Overall they made almost 33% of the threes - equivalent to 49.2% on twos. And that was with two good long-range shooters, Mackenzie and Sotos - making an uncharacteristic 3.of 13, all of them good looks.

In the second half, they were able to get to the rim a little more – which is good. But I didn't have a big problem with them taking the open threes that the Monmouth defense was giving them. One good thing in this game, by the way, was Andrew Funk drilling two second half threes. Despite being a good shooter in practice and in high school, he had been in a miserable slump. Hopefully this will give him the confidence to keep making those shots.



bison63
Postdoc
Posts 3857
12-01-18 09:08 PM - Post#267758    

You don’t need any expertise to say that that game was a painful watch, but shifting to the positive...Avi Toomer!! If that is the Avi we see from here on in, that is a huge plus!
S2YB
Freshman
Posts 63
12-01-18 09:36 PM - Post#267759    

I need video of Avis putback because that was just ferocious.
BisonFan4
Junior
Posts 211
12-02-18 07:10 AM - Post#267773    

Yes, Avi finally played how we all know he is capable of playing! I've been waiting for a game like that from him.
atlantabison
PhD Student
Posts 1835
12-02-18 09:29 AM - Post#267776    

Having seen him score 40something in a high school game I knew the offensive outburst was possible. Nice to see it happen. Best goal tend I have ever seen.
Ray Bucknell!

Bison89
Professor
Posts 5370
Bison89
12-02-18 09:42 AM - Post#267777    

  • BisonFan4 Said:
Yes, Avi finally played how we all know he is capable of playing! I've been waiting for a game like that from him.



Avi seemed to be much more aggressive offensively. Is this something that the coaches encouraged, or did he decide to do this on his own?
New season, new team, new dream . . .

BisonRoadWarrior
Professor
Posts 5203
BisonRoadWarrior
12-02-18 11:24 AM - Post#267786    

  • S2YB Said:
I need video of Avis putback because that was just ferocious.


https://twitter.com/robertson_14/status/1 069052175...
Bison137
Professor
Posts 16147
Bison137
12-02-18 01:46 PM - Post#267806    

Nathan Davis addressed the shot imbalance after the game:

"I don't care if we shoot 70 threes in a game as long as we're working inside-out and getting good looks. They collapsed the lane and played great help defense and forced us outside. We had good looks. They just didn't fall."



DrBison
Junior
Posts 244
12-02-18 01:48 PM - Post#267807    

Don’t know if Avi’s performance had anything to do with it, but his parents were in the house.
BisonRoadWarrior
Professor
Posts 5203
BisonRoadWarrior
12-02-18 03:00 PM - Post#267811    

Looked like Alexander Rice was at the end of the Monmouth handshake line and sharing greetings and laughs with our coaches and players at the end of the game.

Bison137
Professor
Posts 16147
Bison137
12-02-18 03:25 PM - Post#267812    

He also spent some time in the bison locker room after the game.



Bison137
Professor
Posts 16147
Bison137
12-03-18 01:52 PM - Post#267884    

  • BisonRoadWarrior Said:
  • S2YB Said:
I need video of Avis putback because that was just ferocious.


https://twitter.com/robertson_14/status/1 069052175...





Here's a different view that stays with the action a little longer:

https://twitter.com/Bucknell_MBB/status/1 069326204...






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