LocalTiger
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02-02-24 09:40 AM - Post#362544
Big game! We need a good start to get
the guys loose and confident. We also need to avoid
foul trouble.
Yale was preseason pick for a lot of good reasons,
but we can play with them.
Go Tigers!
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TigerFan
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02-02-24 07:25 PM - Post#362584
In response to LocalTiger
Let's goooooooooooooooooooooooo o!
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whitakk
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02-02-24 08:18 PM - Post#362587
In response to TigerFan
Martini and Huggins playing together for a significant stretch is interesting - only 7 minutes together all season before this.
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TigerFan
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02-02-24 08:25 PM - Post#362588
In response to whitakk
Mitch giving the bench a lot of minutes.
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TigerFan
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02-02-24 08:29 PM - Post#362589
In response to TigerFan
Yeah babeeee
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TigerFan
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02-02-24 08:42 PM - Post#362591
In response to TigerFan
Very strong half until the last couple of minutes when the Tigers started looking rrattled and took some really tough shots. Nine point lead down to 5 at the break.
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Vonsid
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02-02-24 08:44 PM - Post#362592
In response to TigerFan
Mush needs to settle down.
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whitakk
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02-02-24 08:47 PM - Post#362594
In response to Vonsid
Up five is a big disappointment given 9-15 three-point shooting (and Yale missing a ton of layups). Hope this doesn't end up like last year with Yale steamrolling in the second half.
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sparman
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02-02-24 09:01 PM - Post#362599
In response to whitakk
If it's any consolation, other ivies have swooned even more. Cornell led Dartmouth 19-0 after 11 minutes and at half leads by 6. Columbia led Harvard by 20 but only 8 at half. Brown led Penn by 11 with 4 minutes to go and trails by 3 at half.
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TigerFan
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02-02-24 09:11 PM - Post#362600
In response to sparman
Dartmouth currently up 6 over the Big Red.
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TigerFan
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02-02-24 09:18 PM - Post#362602
In response to TigerFan
Yale D making us look rattled on offense and it doesn't help that the fouls are starting to pile up on our guys. BS call on X. hurts.
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TigerFan
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02-02-24 09:24 PM - Post#362603
In response to TigerFan
crap call on Martini.
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Vonsid
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02-02-24 09:24 PM - Post#362604
In response to TigerFan
What are these refs doing
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TigerFan
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02-02-24 09:30 PM - Post#362605
In response to Vonsid
Jones' teams have always been good at playing very "physically" without getting called for fouls while their opponents do. It's been this way for years
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1LotteryPick1969
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02-02-24 09:59 PM - Post#362612
In response to TigerFan
Everyone on the floor missed a three pointer in the last five minutes. Aaargh!
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Vonsid
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02-02-24 10:00 PM - Post#362614
In response to 1LotteryPick1969
Our lack of size is starting to catch up to us.
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Vonsid
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02-02-24 10:04 PM - Post#362620
In response to Vonsid
Matt has not been playing well as of late. Zach had a bad game. If it wasn’t for Davis’s 11 off the bench, this would have been a lot worse.
Our offense looks somewhat broken right now as well. We are not taking good shots like we had been.
Huggins does nothing when he gets the ball. I feel like Blake had also disappeared….just not being the threat we need.
All the negativety aside, lets get all this crap out of the way now and fix things while we have time.
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TigerFan
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02-02-24 10:20 PM - Post#362624
In response to Vonsid
Well that one really hurts but it was a hell of a lot better showing than last week or than last year in New Haven. Couple of bad breaks (Wolff getting the put back if his own shot at the very end of the first half was a real momentum buster), some tough calls (phantom third foul on X at a crucial moment and the flagrant call on Martini was a killer). But Yale is really strong and they just shut us down when they needed to and we couldn’t get stops when we needed them. Our guys should feel reasonably good about the rematch.
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Vonsid
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02-02-24 10:51 PM - Post#362626
In response to TigerFan
I appreciate your positivey and agree with it. I do think we have regressed a bit though and need to go back to some tape on the offensive side.
Defense was not bad honestly and to your point phantom fouls did not help our morale.
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gokinsmen
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Yale
02-02-24 11:27 PM - Post#362632
In response to Vonsid
Great effort tonight. Not worried at all - encouraged actually. I'm confident we'll beat Yale at home (and in the ILT). Road games = calls not going your way.
Princeton remains the best team in the Ivy and the only one who has played road games against the other Top 3 teams. Let Cornell and Yale enjoy their midseason scheduling Ws.
There are 9 regular season games left + the ILT, which is all that matters anyway. I'm confident our guys will come out on top in a neutral-site tournament. Not to mention much worse losses last year sparked our incredible postseason run.
Also, Dalen Davis is really something! Bad news for the rest of league next year - Davis will step in (and then some) for Allocco while Pierce, Lee and Peters are coming back.
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gokinsmen
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Yale
02-02-24 11:45 PM - Post#362634
In response to Vonsid
I appreciate your positivey and agree with it. I do think we have regressed a bit though and need to go back to some tape on the offensive side.
Cornell loss was regression (blowout loss where we looked sloppy on both ends).
Tonight was a return to form - lots of great plays in a close loss. Losing on the road to good/solid teams in conference happens to everyone.
Not to give fodder to anti-ILT folks, but now that we have a conference tourney, these losses just don't sting as badly (nor do wins feel as good). Important thing is to learn from them like we did last year.
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SRP
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02-03-24 07:29 AM - Post#362641
In response to gokinsmen
Yale’s overall size really affected the inside game, which in turn let them push out to defend the three more in the second half . They’re good.
I thought Princeton’s defense was mostly good, especially right out of the gate. Yale made a lot of difficult shots; I don’t know whether to be encouraged or worried that their offense felt to me like it underperformed their talent; they just seemed a bit disjointed on many possessions, even ones where they ended up scoring.
I think the Tigers have a good chance in any rematches.
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Tiger69
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Re: Yale
02-03-24 10:40 AM - Post#362651
In response to gokinsmen
Wish I shared your confidence.
GO TIGERS!
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1LotteryPick1969
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02-03-24 11:19 AM - Post#362654
In response to SRP
Yale’s overall size really affected the inside game, which in turn let them push out to defend the three more in the second half . They’re good.
Woff's legs looked very heavy at the end; we just have no inside game to take advantage of this. So when the three's don't drop.....
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