HuskyColonial
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12-01-18 11:13 AM - Post#267704
A loss today at home to winless Monmouth would be inexcusable.
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BisonFan4
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12-01-18 12:07 PM - Post#267708
In response to HuskyColonial
Not going to happen. I think we will see a different start to the game today.
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bison63
Postdoc
Posts: 3857
Reg: 01-23-06
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12-01-18 02:37 PM - Post#267715
In response to BisonFan4
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!
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bison63
Postdoc
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12-01-18 02:39 PM - Post#267716
In response to bison63
They just caught it, 8 minutes in.
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Paulie777
PhD Student
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Reg: 11-11-07
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12-01-18 02:41 PM - Post#267717
In response to bison63
Would love to see Bruce Moore, Sotos, and Sestina/Newman score a bunch of points. More scoring, less playing.
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bison63
Postdoc
Posts: 3857
Reg: 01-23-06
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12-01-18 02:49 PM - Post#267718
In response to Paulie777
Was hoping for an easy game, but listening to Coach ND, it sounds like we will be playing Duke today, lol.
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bison63
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12-01-18 03:31 PM - Post#267724
In response to bison63
If the 3s are not falling, how about trying some twos. Duh!
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bison63
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12-01-18 03:33 PM - Post#267725
In response to bison63
This game is starting to look familiar
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Bison89
Professor
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Loc: Philadelphia
Reg: 11-14-07
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12-01-18 03:51 PM - Post#267726
In response to bison63
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.
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crd012
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12-01-18 03:58 PM - Post#267727
In response to Bison89
Good news: We’re winning at half.
Bad news: Literally everything else. This game is terrible.
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HuskyColonial
PhD Student
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Age: 50
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12-01-18 04:23 PM - Post#267732
In response to crd012
Monmouth is the worse team I’ve seen since we played Northeastern!
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Bison89
Professor
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Loc: Philadelphia
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12-01-18 04:55 PM - Post#267733
In response to HuskyColonial
I slept through most of the second half. No, really, I took a nap.
Good to win . . .
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bison63
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12-01-18 05:26 PM - Post#267736
In response to Bison89
We did some good things, but Monmouth was really baaad!
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jkrun80
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12-01-18 05:38 PM - Post#267738
In response to bison63
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.
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HuskyColonial
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12-01-18 05:42 PM - Post#267739
In response to jkrun80
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.
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md2377
Freshman
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Loc: Williamstown, MA
Reg: 02-01-16
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12-01-18 05:45 PM - Post#267740
In response to jkrun80
If a 22 point win could ever be painful to watch, this was it.
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Bison89
Professor
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Loc: Philadelphia
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12-01-18 07:34 PM - Post#267747
In response to md2377
If a 22 point win could ever be painful to watch, this was it.
I completely agree. Well said!
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jkrun80
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12-01-18 07:55 PM - Post#267749
In response to Bison89
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.
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bison63
Postdoc
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Reg: 01-23-06
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12-01-18 08:00 PM - Post#267750
In response to jkrun80
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.
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res
Masters Student
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Reg: 03-21-06
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12-01-18 08:28 PM - Post#267754
In response to jkrun80
This is a tough crowd. A win is a win.
Yes, there are a lot of experts in this crowd.
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Bison137
Professor
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Reg: 01-23-06
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12-01-18 08:32 PM - Post#267755
In response to bison63
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.
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bison63
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12-01-18 09:08 PM - Post#267758
In response to res
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!
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S2YB
Freshman
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Age: 25
Reg: 11-08-16
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12-01-18 09:36 PM - Post#267759
In response to bison63
I need video of Avis putback because that was just ferocious.
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BisonFan4
Junior
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Age: 45
Reg: 12-30-16
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12-02-18 07:10 AM - Post#267773
In response to S2YB
Yes, Avi finally played how we all know he is capable of playing! I've been waiting for a game like that from him.
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atlantabison
PhD Student
Posts: 1835
Loc: Atlanta, GA
Reg: 01-25-06
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12-02-18 09:29 AM - Post#267776
In response to BisonFan4
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.
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Bison89
Professor
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Loc: Philadelphia
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12-02-18 09:42 AM - Post#267777
In response to BisonFan4
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?
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BisonRoadWarrior
Professor
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12-02-18 11:24 AM - Post#267786
In response to S2YB
I need video of Avis putback because that was just ferocious.
https://twitter.com/robertson_14/status/1 069052175...
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Bison137
Professor
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12-02-18 01:46 PM - Post#267806
In response to BisonRoadWarrior
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."
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DrBison
Junior
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Reg: 12-22-08
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12-02-18 01:48 PM - Post#267807
In response to Bison89
Don’t know if Avi’s performance had anything to do with it, but his parents were in the house.
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BisonRoadWarrior
Professor
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Reg: 08-16-06
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12-02-18 03:00 PM - Post#267811
In response to DrBison
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.
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Bison137
Professor
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Reg: 01-23-06
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12-02-18 03:25 PM - Post#267812
In response to BisonRoadWarrior
He also spent some time in the bison locker room after the game.
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Bison137
Professor
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12-03-18 01:52 PM - Post#267884
In response to BisonRoadWarrior
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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