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Username Post: Looking ahead
Dr. V 
PhD Student
Posts: 1536

Reg: 11-21-04
03-05-17 09:11 AM - Post#224927    
    In response to Chet Forte

We had major weaknesses. We were 8th in the Ivies in FG%, and we were 7th in rebounding margin. We were middle of the pack in defense, but with that kind of lousy shooting % and that kind of lousy rebounding, it's hard to win. We had our share of injuries, but every team had some. That said, our injuries, Castlin for the year and Meisner for a stretch towards the end, may have hurt us in those areas where we were weakest, rebounding, and thus hurt us a lot. Given all of that, the coaches did a good job. (Some on this board have a tendency to attribute whatever they may not understand to the coaches' mistakes. Thus, for example, Luke played 30 minutes last night after having playing 30 plus the night before. I presume Engles took him out for a spell so that he wouldn't run out of gas towards the end, and that seemed to have worked.)

The coaches have recruited well for next year. Hanson, Faulds and Stefanini are all quite good who may turn out to be even better than that IF all goes well, and not everything always goes well, as we all know . Voss's improvement this year was amazing. If only we had been able to redshirt him the first year. But anytway, the question, as always, is, who will want to work to improve his game? No one knows the answer to that. Smith is a keeper; Meisner, if healthy, is a good player; the frosh give me hope, but as Princeton has repeatedly demonstrated, you have to recruit at a high level and stockpile talent. We need more at this point.
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