UR- St. Francis In Game
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Coach Mooney has called his team out. He said the Spiders were playing very well, the best of the season. He also mentioned that he asked them what kind of team you want to be. He called them out and challenged them.
I was going to say that maybe we could learn something from a smaller team that rebounds well. We have 7 first half turnovers.
I am surprised that they have not cut Kendall Anthony loose. They really haven't needed him to score much. Cline has 2 fouls. KA0 is only 1-5 from the field.
Is it just me or is SFB just eating us up inside? Not sure if we are making adjustments but they have been getting easy baskets down low. We are going into our 2nd half drought as usual and letting them back in. Cmon lets finish strong Anthony not one of his better games
Well, I think we are finishing strong. Give St. Francis credit they didn't give up, but as we have on this late season, we had the answer when we needed it. KA had a really poor game but made the key buckets at the end when we needed them.
Scrappy team and we found a way to win without KO being a big scorer. Josh, Terry, ZO,
SDJ and KO gave some balance. The Terriers were a real physical team and in fact reminded
me of some of the old Xavier teams. They seemed to almost want to get into our heads with
their pushing and physical play. I am proud of the guys holding their cool and hanging in there.
I predict we will play better against ASU which will not be as physical but will be bigger. They
gave Arizona a tough game onTV earlier I watched. We will have to play much better all around.
SDJ and KO gave some balance. The Terriers were a real physical team and in fact reminded
me of some of the old Xavier teams. They seemed to almost want to get into our heads with
their pushing and physical play. I am proud of the guys holding their cool and hanging in there.
I predict we will play better against ASU which will not be as physical but will be bigger. They
gave Arizona a tough game onTV earlier I watched. We will have to play much better all around.
Happy for the win, but I thought our performance was very unimpressive. SFC is a very good NEC team, but they made a game of it, pulling within 2 points. Should not have happened. With a little luck, they could have pulled off a win. They were able to find open players in the paint, just didn't finish as many as they should have. Undersized, they still killed us on the offensive boards. Our team should watch how SFC boxed them out. Terry Allen had a great game, and Alonzo, showed some further improvement.
We have a few days to prepare for ASU, but we will need a better effort, if we want to return to MSG.
I do applaud SFC for not wilting when they fell behind by 15 points. I thought our superior talent was showing, and they outplayed us for the rest of the game. But give our guys credit, when they pulled within 2 points, we were able to close out the game, in a strong finish.
We have a few days to prepare for ASU, but we will need a better effort, if we want to return to MSG.
I do applaud SFC for not wilting when they fell behind by 15 points. I thought our superior talent was showing, and they outplayed us for the rest of the game. But give our guys credit, when they pulled within 2 points, we were able to close out the game, in a strong finish.
I know it was against a not great team, but I think we saw that we have a lot of scoring options on our team next year through this game. TA, TJ, ANO, JJ, SDJ all scored in double figures while Kendall had an off game until the final minutes. If any of the new comers can put up points we are going to be fine on offense next year.
I also liked the 30s shot clock. Its not often we get over 80 points!
I also liked the 30s shot clock. Its not often we get over 80 points!
A lot of good comments and analysis on the board. Spider defense was not as good as usually is and they gave up way too many offensive rebounds. Cline (early), Anthony (late) and Allen were big on offensive end. Nice to see ANO contribute like he did on offensive and defensive end. Go Spiders!
We can not take our foot off the pedal again if we want to get to MSG. CM should have continued with hot line up we would win by 20. Can't keep playing not to loose once we get a little lead. Ano TJ TA JJ SDJ was hot line up IMO too much subbing team got out of sink St Francis went small gave us problems.. We won but made it hard..Watched Arizona St they are tuff we have to out score them. Go Spiders
Just wondering if any VCUers showed up? A number of their posters crowed that a large number of VCU fans in Ram gear would show up and out cheer UR fans, thus making it a St. Francis crowd!
One "enemy" poster claims that the RC was less than half full and that UR squeaked by St. Francis. My question does a 10 point win qualify as a "squeak" victory?
One "enemy" poster claims that the RC was less than half full and that UR squeaked by St. Francis. My question does a 10 point win qualify as a "squeak" victory?
I find it interesting that we are now a team that is making a living with points in the paint, given our propensity most of the year to fall in love with the 3 point shot.
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