Dr. V
PhD Student
Posts: 1539
Reg: 11-21-04
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01-13-18 12:56 PM - Post#243404
In response to TheLine
I was at the game and this morning watched part of the tape. As it seems it has forever, Princeton simply has a much larger number of good shooters, so it probably would have won because of that. But then almost everything that could have gone wrong did for us. Meisner is the league's top rebounder and a very good 3-pt shooter. Losing him for almost the entire first half was a killer. Mike's having an off night obviously also hurt.
We played hard, we played smart and we defended. Almost all of the stats, except for shooting, even out: they had a slight rebounding edge 39 to 35, but personal fouls were even 16 to 17, they committed more TOs than we did, 15 to our 9, and we had 9 steals to their 4.
Some of the comments about Kyle and Jim are silly. Kyle recruited the second, third and fourth years on our team. We have far too many players who can't shoot. Princeton outshot us 47.7 to 21.2 in the first half, and 48.4 to 21.4 in three point shooting. Now part of that has to do with that damn hanger Princeton calls a gym, but part of that is simply that we lack enough good shooters. You can recruit but you can't coach shooting.
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