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We're a 2 point dog. This is really a game that we have to win. Their best win on the season was their win up here a few weeks ago, so it's not like they've slayed many giants.

If we allow their hunchbacked kid to fly across the lane unattended for a free layup 15 times again, i'm going to throw my remote control through my television.

Win this one and we're on a 4 game roll and finally better than .500 in conference headed into Costco on Friday night. Let's do it.
 
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We played a crappy game when they were in the RC 2 weeks ago. Need to play confidently and defend the rim.
 
We're a very predictable team. We've only won two games all year that we probably were expected to lose – Cal and GW. But we countered those two wins by losing 5 games we were expected to win – JMU, St. Joe's, VCU, Mason and Davidson at home.

A win tonight would surprise me.
 
Not sure we were expected to win St. Joes and VCU. Mason, Jmu and Davidson I agree. VCU has 4 starters back from A10 Championship plus a starter transfer from Oral Roberts
 
I believe we were favored in all five games, and rightfully so. We had a better OOC resume than VCU and should beat them every year on our home court. St. Joe's is a good team, but at that time had beaten no one of significance, and again, it was a home game for us.
 
We're a very predictable team. We've only won two games all year that we probably were expected to lose – Cal and GW. But we countered those two wins by losing 5 games we were expected to win – JMU, St. Joe's, VCU, Mason and Davidson at home.

A win tonight would surprise me.
Wouldn't this technically make us unpredictable? Close to a third of our games have gone against whatever the prediction was.
 
Wouldn't this technically make us unpredictable? Close to a third of our games have gone against whatever the prediction was.

Touche. I meant that we are predictable in terms of NOT winning games we are expected to lose, but I didn't say that correctly. We very rarely win games that are toss-ups or that we're "supposed" to lose, but more frequently we lay eggs and blow games that we ARE supposed to win.
 
Touche. I meant that we are predictable in terms of NOT winning games we are expected to lose, but I didn't say that correctly. We very rarely win games that are toss-ups or that we're "supposed" to lose, but more frequently we lay eggs and blow games that we ARE supposed to win.
Fair enough. Maybe that means we will regress to the mean tonight and win one we shouldn't per the pundits.

I'm going with that theory.
 
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We've only been an underdog against GW and Cal and still won the games. Every other game in which we were underdogs, we lost.
 
We've only been an underdog against GW and Cal and still won the games. Every other game in which we were underdogs, we lost.
So this means we are due! Saddle up...it's time for a road victory against an overdog (that sounds better than "favorite").
 
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Touche. I meant that we are predictable in terms of NOT winning games we are expected to lose, but I didn't say that correctly. We very rarely win games that are toss-ups or that we're "supposed" to lose, but more frequently we lay eggs and blow games that we ARE supposed to win.
That, my friend, leads to a very poor season. Would love to think this team could go on a tear like last year but we dont have kA anymore. Why does it seem Sdj waits until late to try to make things happen?
 
I think UR is predictable in CM's lack of in-game adjusting Yes, the zone D seems to be working, but time flies by, can't practice stuff till perfection exists and 2-3 losses are added to your record.

Yes Gibbs had an off night scoring last game but I would still concentrate on taking him out of the game since he's the main assist guy too. Why not come out and box and 1 him? Below is a Kenny stat of how involved players are offensively.

Percentage of possessions used (%Poss)
: A measure of personal possessions used while the player is on the court. Simply assigns credit or blame to a player when his actions end a possession, either by making a shot, missing a shot that isn’t rebounded by the offense, or committing a turnover.

Gibbs leads by far the A10 at 34.4%. TA and TJC come in at 28.0 and 27.8 for 4th and 5th place. Tells me these guys are working their tails off more than others. Most of the top 10 players are on .500 teams with Johnson from VCU coming in 10th at 25.3%.

So disrupt everything Davidson wants to do by hounding Gibbs from inbounds play forward. Maybe have TD start off and continue with KF when he subs. Yes, other guy killed Spiders last game but someone has to pass it to him. And won't happen but sure like to see MW start just for the fact 2 non-scorers aren't playing together.

See where last few games some 6'2" guy Reigel has been starting along with with 2 small guards in Gibbs and Sullivan. How bout sending a few guys to pound the offensive glass and get some easy put backs?

ADJUSTMENTS! In general I believe stop worrying about how adjustments will affect the Spiders and think glass half-full with adjustments being detrimental to the other team.

PS Spiders shooting 0-15 with 3PT won't happen again!
 
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